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Crossed, Vol. 2: Family Values (2011)

by David Lapham(Favorite Author)
3.32 of 5 Votes: 2
ISBN
1592911242 (ISBN13: 9781592911240)
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English
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Avatar Press
series
Crossed
review 1: It's... Okay. I mean, you come to expect gross from Crossed. Garth Ennis has a knack for being over the top but it feels like it has purpose. There's direction in the beautiful fucked up madness. Unfortunately, David Lapman tries to emulate Ennis and fails to do so. There is only loose direction. It feels like the real story in this volume is topping the last fucked up thing to happen involving incest and then the rest was thrown together to give it vague context. The characters are so poorly developed that the brief moments where you're positioned to feel emotions for them, you just feel the echo in your hollow chest and turn the page. Suddenly you've finished reading it, there's barely any satisfaction from finishing it. It's underwhelming. It's okay. I'd give it a 2.5 s... moretars if i could.
review 2: Gross. Very.I had trouble with the rating, because it really creeped me out in the worst way and I kinda hate it, but then again, that's what it's meant to do. And it is a page-turner. My own personal rating would be two stars, but considering the intentions of the story, genre and everything, it does deserve more than that.I almost gave four stars - maybe it would deserve them. I think my judgment might be clouded here.Seriously though, I will definately never read it again and hopefully forget about it alltogether.I watch/read a lot of horror, but I never got an actual nightmare from any of it even though many of it scared me to the point that I would jump into my bed from a two meter distance, just so nothing would grab my ankle. This Crossed Volume gave me two nightmares so far, one of them the very worst nightmare of my whole life. I'll need a week at least to get over that one. (I'm not exaggerating, that was horrible! Can I just whine a little about that?!)Really, I don't even know what else I could say. It's not a bad Comic book, but even if you're used to horror and gore, this one will probably stick out and mess with your head.If you'll excuse me now. I need to curl up in a corner and start repressing the memory of this comic. Bye. less
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effie
I liked the first one better. This was more graphic. I will keep reading them, although.
Adremarkie
Okay I thought volume 1 was grim but this is a step too far. Just gross.
Ceecee
This volume is equally shocking and wonderfully disgusting as the first.
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