Crossed HC (2010- Avatar) comic books 2015

Volume 11 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 8!" Collects Crossed (2008) Annual #1 and Crossed (2013) #57-61. Written by Justin Jordan and Simon Spurrier. Art by Rafael Ortiz and Georges Duarte. Cover by Christian Zanier. The Crossed universe is an unyielding nightmare vision of animal depravity and homicidal insanity. In this volume, two of the industry's best new talents come together to tell very different stories of despair. Simon Spurrier takes you to a picturesque environment in the English countryside with tweeting birds, friendly vicars, crumpets and jam, and a mob of Crossed lurking near the duck pond. No one sees Wheezy the fat asthmatic kid hiding up in the old tower but if he shows his face it will only be the farmer's wife between him and a bloody fate. The problem is, she's Crossed too. And newly-Crossed Justin Jordan tells his first diabolical tale as two women attempt to escape the band of monsters out for their blood. When a mysterious unseen Samaritan helps them escape to a sanctuary it seems as though they've found what little safety there is in the new world order. But trusting anyone in the world of Crossed usually leads to a gut-wrenching and miserable end. Hardcover, 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $27.99.

Volume 12 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 9!" Collects Crossed (2013) #62-70. Written by David Lapham. Art by Francisco Manna. Cover by Gabriel Andrade. Garth Ennis' world of Crossed has become the pinnacle of survival horror in fiction. David Lapham (Stray Bullets) returns to Crossed with a crime story told both before and after the Crossed outbreak! A father is pushed to the brink when his family is brutally tortured and killed. With only revenge to keep him going, he becomes a monster himself with only one purpose, to find the man that did this and make him suffer more than anyone has before. But then C-Day happened and the world changed. Now a mystery to solve becomes one man's singular obsession to cross a sea of maniacs and destroy a monster no matter the cost. There is no help and there is no hope. There is only the Crossed. Hardcover, 224 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $32.99.

Volume 13 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 10!" Collects Crossed (2013) #71-74 and Crossed Special (2014). Written by David Hine and Justin Jordan. Art by Fernando Heinz and Nahuel Lopez. Cover by Christian Zanier. Twisted tales master David Hine returns to the grueling world of Garth Ennis' survival horror Crossed with a story from the early days of the outbreak. When a Japanese mobster's daughter is trapped at a cosplay convention on C-Day, the criminals learn the hard way that in a Crossed world it doesn't matter how tough you are...just how fast you run. And Justin Jordan locks us in our nightmares with a visceral tale that takes us to Federal Prison. Jesse Bullock is not a good man, but a very hard man. Down for armed robbery and assault, the only crimes they were able to prove, he has but one good quality: he loves his cousin Otis. When they end up imprisoned at the same jail, Jesse intentionally gets himself denied parole to make sure he's there to protect Otis, who isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. But that job gets much harder when the Crossed spread inside those escape-proof walls! Hardcover, 144 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $27.99.

Volume 14 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 11!" Collects Crossed (2013) #75-80. Written by Kieron Gillen. Art Rafa Ortiz. Cover by Fernando Heinz. Kieron Gillen (Uber, Wicked & Devine) takes the horrors of the Crossed back to the ancient past where 75,000 years ago humanity came as close as it has ever come to being purged from the Earth. There were as few as 2000 humans remaining. This is historical fact. Why it came to this is generally blamed on super-volcano Toba causing a minor ice-age. But that's not the full story. That is not the history of the Homo Tortor, i.e. Man The Torturer. This empire before the beginning of time, that sends raiding parties gathering other Homo species and enormous mega-fauna, invented cruelty, refined domination, and perfected killing. And they think their power will last forever. There is no help, there is no hope. There is only the Crossed. Hardcover, 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $27.99.