It’s difficult to say you enjoyed Garth Ennis’ Crossed series for Avatar Press, the book was a masterpiece in exposing the extremities of the human condition but the experiences Ennis chose to subject the reader to leave a bitter and possibly rat infested taste in the mouth. Crossed is a survival story in the zombie vein but has more in common with George Romero’s other recently adapted property; The Crazies. The world has been ravaged by a disease which causes the infected to act out the most base and horrific acts of violence and depravity upon their families, themselves and unfortunate enough to wander by. There aren’t many comic books where someone will get raped by a gimp whilst being repeatedly beaten with a severed horse cock.

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Link: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/04/19/garth-ennis-crossed-movie-details/

I've stayed pretty quiet about most of the news that came out of last weekend's C2E2 convention, mainly because I want to do a C2E2 con special Secrets and Lies for the next edition of the Sidekickcast. There is however one piece of information that I simply have to comment on, they're making a movie of Crossed! In an interview over at MTV Splash Page Garth Ennis says he's written a screenplay for the production company Kickstart Productions but as of yet that's where his involvement ends.

As with most things Ennis does Crossed is a dark, gruesome, sometimes funny but always thought provoking drama about a group of survivors in a world ravaged by the Crossed; a kind of fucked zombie that represents the worst of humanities baser instincts. We've been following the recently wrapped series quite closely on the Sidekickcast and it got 5 stars from me. I think the series is perfect for the big screen treatment, especially when you consider the success of the zombie genre and films like the recent Romero remake of The Crazies which Crossed is very similar in tone and subsatnce. I do have to wonder whether the general movie going audience are quite ready for Mr Ennis' particular brand of comedic but sometimes truly horrific violence and wit but I'm looking forward to seeing how it plays out. The worst thing you could do with Crossed is to soften it, it needs to pack the punch that it does otherwise it's just another zombie/crazy bastards post apocalyptic road movie and we've got enough of those. With Ennis writing I'm sure he won't be pulling any punches but let's hope those Hollywood script doctors don't get their hands on it and we get the PF-13 Crossed that should never be.