Crossed: Family Values #7 Review
The Pratt family showdown finale is here. Today I will be reviewing Crossed:Family Values #7. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think.
Crossed: Family Values #7
So let’s talk about the book. As Kate is delivering her baby, the Crossed attack, led by mommy dearest. Outnumbered, with little to no ammo, and with no way out, the survivors head to the sewers. Too bad mommy is tracking her kids by scent. Catching one survivor by surprise, mom manages to get one and turn him. When they team up to take out the rest, Addie makes her last stand. The battle is fast and fierce, but Addie manages to escape with only a huge injury to her brother, finally killing mom. As the Crossed enter the sewers, the survivors manage to escape in the confusion and make it to a safe haven. But what place is really safe from the Crossed? And that’s the book. (Nine dead, four alive for those keeping count. I was so sure it would be less.)
So let’s talk opinions. After all of the violence and gruesome imagery from the past six issues, this one was a cakewalk. Not saying that there was nothing but roses and sunshine. We still had plenty of blood, gore, sex and violence. Jethro wearing Addy’s brother’s head as underwear was a nice image to take in. Plus mommy running around in her birthday suit all issue was a nasty sight as well. And don’t get me started on that dickhead the Red Baron. (Trust me! That sentence makes perfect sense if you read the issue.) Violent imagery aside, the art in general on this title has been phenomenal. The story was good as well but kind of a sappy ending considering the intense hell that this family has gone through to get to this point. I also find it funny that out of all the humans, only the family survived. The ending was a little bit sappy but hopeful which I guess is the moral of this story. Even in hell, hope still survives. That, and even the little things are taken as a miracle. Addy has grown into the protector and breadwinner of the family. So many hardships were endured by her and she survived them all. A nice character growth series. So that brings this mini to a close. Have no fear, however, that this is the end of Crossed. Coming in a month or two will be Crossed:Psychopath. A tale about a non-crossed human, who is supposedly so cruel and vicious, he makes the crossed look like innocent newborns. I can’t wait. That’s my opinion folks. Take it or leave it.
A COMIC BOOK BLOG RATING
| Pros | Cons |
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| excellent finale to an extremely disturbing and ultra-violent mini series | it’s over. for now. |
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3 Comments
Hmm, okay, I am going to come across as a major Psycho, but having heard so much about how horribly violent this comic book is, I was kinda disappointed by the content…
The story is basic survival stuff, nothing new there, we don’t know where the Crossed come from, what happened, etc, but that doesn’t matter (we don’t really care), but I was hoping that things would be, well, sicker, I guess.
My point is, if one is going to write a comic book where the protagonists act out their most degrading disgusting horrific fantasies, I would like it to see it pushed further… much further, actually.
While the Crossed are not Zombies, they are basically the same, except they rape, a bit… Because they are still alive, human, and able to communicate, I feel it’s a shame they have been reduced to such stupid grunting beings, animals basically, when a study of the human condition could have been pushed much further had they remained slightly more able to reason.The thing with zombies is that, at the end of the day, their lack of intelligence ultimately make them less scary. I’ll take a zombie any day over a living breathing psychopath. Isn’t something/someone acting on it’s twisted fantasies much scarier than some animal acting on instinct? Or is that just me?
In Walking Dead, the scarier, most shocking moments don’t come from zombie attacks, but from the main characters having to face other demented survivors…
In killing off many characters too quickly, I feel somehow the author exercised restraint, and maybe I have just become de-sensitized to violence, or maybe it’s because the media doesn’t affect me as much as a movie would, but there are really only 2 or 3 moments in the 2 series (the original and the Family Values series) that I felt really gave me my money’s worth.
The covers, for example, are much more intriguing, and interesting in many ways, as often they depict situations that seem to have occurred at the beginning of the outbreak (when there was still plenty of normal people to “have fun” with).
Is it wrong that I want to see a bloodbath when I am promised one? Most probably.Do I think any kid can pick up this comic and enjoy it? Definitely not.
My final point is that, if you’re going to write a story where shocking things are happening, make it shocking, mega shocking, horribly shocking. Don’t stop and think “oh, better suggest this is happening rather than actually show it”.
Let’s face it, there is nothing subtle about Crossed, so why the restraint?
Thank you for your comment. To be fully honest with you, issue #7 was a little bit weak on violence and filth. That didn’t mean it was bad, just anti-climactic. Check out issue #3 for pure insanity and issue #6 for some human soul destruction. Those are really the two stars in this mini-series. Those two contain the shocking images that will be burned into your brain. Is the entire series as a whole vile and disgusting? Yes. Issue #7 was just a closure issue. If you have shock after shock every issue, you sort of lose the uniqueness that this title brings. You are not a psycho. Just a fan who expects to receive what was promised. I can appreciate that.
I loved this series, totally fantastic. I would like to see a bunch of short stories done by Ennis. Thoughts on this?