I am so thrilled to see that Crossed is doing a free webcomic!! The pictures below link to issues one and two, and I guess they’re going to be posting them weekly, on Thursdays. Crossed, which has done a few series in print (and still is), is one of my favorite comics. Of course that means that it’s post-apocalyptic. In this case a virus has broken out that turns the victims into sexually depraved sadistic psychopaths (and it’s called crossed because they get a cross-shaped rash on their faces). I’ve never seen more sodomy or more torture in a comic. It’s the most evil perverse comic I’ve ever read, and it’s actually quite shocking that it exists in the mainstream, not deep underground, or at least in tentacle rape Japan. I think if I was going to get another comic tattoo (I already have a Jim Woodring sleeve) or another perverse tattoo (hello BME/HARD gaycocktorture chestpiece), Crossed would be high on the list.
Adults only! But really that applies to my blog as well, so need I say it?
I’ve been downloading them and converting them to CBR files so I can read them on my tablet.
The print issues push the boundaries much further. The original series by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows is incredible, as are the follow-ups Family Values and Psychopath. I think there’s a new one coming soon called Badlands that I’m eagerly awaiting while I enjoy this free web series. The adept searcher can find them online in the obvious places but I hope that if you download a pirate copy you’ll enjoy it enough to invest in the real deal to support the creators. As I’ve said many times, too many great comics die a young death. Oh and if you enjoy crossed you must also check out the BlackGas series (two short three part volumes have been released two date), which are very similar in character.
On the perverted tattoo note, my doctor actually saw my chestpiece for the first time a couple weeks ago. I wasn’t sure if I should warn him somehow when he said “can you take your shirt off for this”, especially because he’s a great guy that’s done a lot for me and I don’t want to risk that relationship. He just said something along the lines of, “wow, that’s quite a tattoo!” and left it at that. Well, not that he didn’t already know I was a bit odd!!! I actually have had a positive turn of luck medically in the last week, and have a long line of tests coming up. I have a long EEG study booked in a couple weeks (I think related to my breathing stoppage and oxygen deprivation issues, which is good since that’s one of the things that easily could do me in short-term), and then an appointment mid-summer with a doctor that’s apparently a national expert on these subjects that I’ve been waiting to hear from for six months. My CT imaging is still falling through the cracks, but I have doctors fighting for me which is really nice.
I also had a whole bunch of bloodwork done earlier in the week, which was an odd experience to say the least. I showed up for the tests at 8:30 AM but the tech was 45 minutes late, and when he arrived he was obviously extremely frazzled. I’m sure the fact that when he printed out the labels for the vials of blood for me, the string of stickers was a meter and a half long. He has to do not just the taking of blood and giving of other tests (I’ve had heart monitoring done there for example), but also data entry and all the clerical tasks of the office. There used to be two people working there (and since it’s a little room on a lonely floor, another person would have been nice not just for workload but also just for company), but when the senior guy died of old age, they never replaced him “for budgetary reasons” and doubled the young guy’s workload. He spent the whole time he was taking vial after vial of blood out of me complaining sadly about how no one there respects him and how terrible the job is. He wasn’t so much angry about it — he was more depressed than anything. His voice was cracking and his eyes were welling up with tears. It was extremely awkward. I wasn’t sure how to respond…
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You shoulda shown him your chest tattoo. A person CANT contain grief and erotic shock at the same moment, trust me.
On the first comic… Words fail.
https://wn.com/Flapjack_loves_Bubbie This also fails to answer. But damn.
Yes to a deeply Crossed tattoo. :D
I’ve read the comic, and it looks promising. I prefer smaller series like this and Transmet, Doktor Sleepless, TLOEG and Kick-Ass. Do you have any other smaller, not-five-hundred-issue-series to recommend?
Oh boy Jon… There’s so much. Here are some things I’ve read recently that I’ve enjoyed: The Aldebaran and Betelguese series by Leo (recently translated into English), American Born Chinese, Cairo, Hard Time, Kinetic, Pigeons From Hell, Scalped (ok, this is a longer series, I admit), Shutterbug Follies, Suicide Forest, Sweet Tooth (ongoing longer series), The Alcoholic, A House in Venice, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, American Way, An Accidental Death, Animal Man, BPRD (there are lots of short run stories in this larger series), Burma Chronicles, Challenger Deep, Chance of a Lifetime, Cold War, Daddy’s Little Girl, Deep Sleeper, Doorways, Down, Driver for the Dead, Golden City, Hell Yeah (just started), Magneto (the mini-series about his childhood), Mudman, Murder Me Dead, Pigs, Rachel Rising (amazing), Remains, Rising Stars, Saucer County (just started), Serpo, Severed, Stitched, The Cape, The Fall, The Last Zombie (just started), The Law of the XII Tables (non-english but there are scanlations out there), The Manhattan Projects (new series), The Mission, The Song of the Vampires, The Vault, Touch, Virulents, Walk In, Wild Girl, XIII, Zero-G
Let’s see what else…
A Friendly game, A God Somewhere, Adam Among The Gods, Aquablue, Baltimore, BlackGas, Blankets, Caligula, Chronicles of Wormwood, Classwar, Dark Rain – A New Orleans Story, DMZ (ok, that’s a big series), Drafted, Ender’s Game, Freak Angels (free webcomic), Fun Home – A Family Tragicomic, H20, Habibi, Heavy Water, I Zombie, Ignition City, Let Me In, MEK (all about body modification!!!), Ministry of Space, Necronomicon (Alan Moore), Ocean, Orbiter, Paying For It, Phoenix Without Ashes, Red, Superman: Red Son, The Alcoholic, The Big Lie, The Chimpanzee Complex, The Executor, The Pro, Transmetropolitan (long series, sorry), The Walking Dead (also a long series, and ongoing, and obvious), WE3, Winter World, Y – The Last Man…
…whew! So there’s a nice big recommended list!!!
Wow, that sure was a long list of recommendations. Thank you. It’s really hard to get to a comic book store here in Norway, so I’ll check out as many of these as I can on sites of questionable legality, and I’m sure I am going to find something of my liking. I do buy from online stores when I know that I like the series, but I just can’t risk that cash as a student if I don’t know whether I’m going to like the series or not.
lol!
Jon – You can get a lot of good stuff online at pay download sites (comixology, etc) that should be nation-independent, but I don’t personally have an ethical problem if you download pirate comics from https://mycomicpost.com/ and so on as long as you buy the stuff you think is worth it… Personally I think all art (at least digital art where individual copies don’t actually cost money — I’m not advocating stealing physical comics!) should be “shareware” or “pay what you think it’s worth to you”… Not that it’s my decision to make, not generally being the creator!
Thanks for the comixology tip. The online content bit, I agree with you on, thinking of the history and purpose of W3.
Realistically I find that there seem to be a need for other business models than the content providers use today. I could endure some static advertising or a monthly fee for a streaming option to get my comics.(If it actually helped the (especially independent) creators, and not became yet another milking cow)
There are currently a project under development, and planned deployment late ’12, here for streaming of books which seems promising.
Until now it has just been possible to pay for one book, and download it. These books also has a quite high price since a non-food/transportation sales tax of 25% is not applicable for printed books, but it is for e-books(,software purchased online and services like Spotify, Dropbox, WoW), even though the government budget clearly states that changes in sales taxes should be used actively to encourage a lessening of environmental impact.
This forces any company that wants to sell any content online to Norwegian customers to register, and pay the 25% sales tax, putting the load on the companies, and in turn a higher price on the product to Norwegian customers.
Oh.. That was quite an OT comment on comics, but the whole sales-tax business just annoys me to such an extent, and I had to get it out…
hehe I love when Shannon recommends stuff. Super thorough!
jim woodring sleeve? how much did it cost you??? i was thinking about getting hogman on my hip
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