Crossed is the Most Disturbing Comic Book Ever Written

The Crossed comic book is well known as one of the most disturbing stories ever made. The Crossed is about the world getting plagued by a deadly virus known as the Crossed, where people suddenly get a large T on their face, and they become full on monsters. They act on the vilest acts imaginable, and they even act almost zombie like, eating people at the same time. I have only read very few issues to this story, because I sometimes feel that it's just shock value for the most part. However, very few stories in this series are pretty good, and the Crossed add to the misery of the story then remain as a 'shock value factor.'

One story that is part of the Psychopath series in the Crossed, is one of the most insane stories in fiction. We follow the point of view of a crazed psychopath, who is found by a group of four people. He becomes very infatuated with one of them, a woman named Amanda who went to med school in the past before the end of the world. The rest of the crew consist of Darwin, her ex -boyfriend, Claire, and Rick, Claire's boyfriend.

Harold, the psychopath, comes up with his own story to convince the crew to go with him on a crazy journey. He makes up a story about traveling with a huge group of people, that were apparently searching for a cure for this deadly virus, but in reality, he wants to get back something that this Crossed group stole from him. He was once in very infatuated with a woman named Lori, a mother and wife. She lost her entire family to the infection, and Harold took advantage of the situation, making a move on her. Lori completely breaks after this, and Harold, in his deluded mind, believes that they are a couple, but in reality, Lori is now a lifeless human being, and he takes advantage of her.

Lori is killed by Crossed, and he cuts off a piece of her, to keep with him always. This part was stolen by the Crossed, and he was willing to do whatever it took to get that back. He tricked the entire group to go after this Crossed pack, and got three of them killed in the process. His infatuation with Amanda continued to grow, to the point that he became obsessed with her, literally falling in love with her. His plan was to have Amanda eat this specific part he had removed from Lori's body, to bring back the woman that he loved through Amanda.

She fights back against Harold, leading to a battle of survival between them. They both sustain heavy injuries, but Amanda is able to escape from Harold, running into whatever fate awaits her. Harold gets over the thought of losing her, and he simply stitches back on his lips, (because Amanda had bitten them off in self-defense during their brutal fight), and he takes Lori's piece with him, ready to face on the world, like Amanda did, but in his case, Harold will most likely continue his deadly killing spree.

This character is extremely dangerous, and it almost felt like I was following the story of someone who was a Crossed, but this guy was human...but he definitely could have shared a drink or two with infected people. I think they would have welcomed him with open arms, if they knew of the sick crimes he was willing to do to innocent people.

This story does sound like extreme shock value, but this story is actually pretty good. Yes, it's a very heavy story to read through, but Harold's character is very well written, and it's scary to know that he was a total monster, but due to his charms, the innocent people he got stuck with were easy to fool, each of them receiving horrible fates at his hands.

Thank you for reading!

Emy Quinn