Crossed Badlands #12 opens with a hilarious page of “Yellow-Belly” aka Edmund dreaming of umm… well, some big round butt as he floats into it somewhere in the dreamy cosmos.
Crossed Badlands #12 opens with a hilarious page of “Yellow-Belly” aka Edmund dreaming of umm…
We can see the progression of our protagonist from yellow-bellied grade-A pussy to the burgeoning possibilities of Edmund being a hero (this is the same dude that hid in a barrel as his mom, dad and brother were violently raped by Crossed geeks). Edmund puts his foot down in this issue – the crossed geeks will no longer violently fuck and kill their way across his community – when he decides he is going to do what he should have done from the hop; warn everyone that the geeks are coming!
We can see the progression of our protagonist from yellow-bellied grade-A pussy to the burgeoning possibilities of Edmund being a hero
Lapham’s hilarious characterization of a whipping boy turned hero can’t help but win the hearts of his readers as we cheer for him to kick some Crossed ass.
Lo and behold! Nobody believes the starry-eyed teen as he runs around a small town telling everyone that the geeks who raped and pillaged a local carnival are coming to spread their madness and pandemonium to the neighbouring communities. But wait! Our hero discovers a biker bar and as he so aptly puts it: “Biker’s kick ass”.
You’re gonna cheer so hard when you see who Edmund has to go toe to toe with!
The biker’s aren’t nearly as stupid as the local townies and ask Edmund to take them to the carnival so they can witness firsthand where the infection began. This leads to another brilliant Jacen Burrows 2-page spread of the Crossed rampantly dismembering circus animals as the bikers and Edmund stumble upon ground zero.
As the bikers and Edmund prepare themselves for a no-holds bar, knock-down, drag-out brimming to the tits with violence war everybody takes a night to relax: Biker-style. Edmund partakes in the festivities enjoying beers, cigarettes that don’t smell like cigarettes and the warm embrace of a biker babe whose “Butt was really nice and a bit jiggly”. If you had of told me the cowardly loser introduced in Crossed: Badlands #10 would be sliding up inside some biker tail not 2 issues later; I would’ve called you a moron.
If you had of told me the cowardly loser introduced in Crossed: Badlands #10 would be sliding up inside some biker tail not 2 issues later; I would’ve called you a moron.
Edmund gets some war paint tattooed on his arm before him and his biker comrade’s head out to kick some sadistic zombified ass! Another beautiful Jacen Burrows 2 page spread of the biker’s gunning down Crossed with some kick-ass Uzi’s and biker babes. This issue comes with a reappearance of a character from Edmund’s quiet high-school days; you’re gonna cheer so hard when you see who Edmund has to go toe to toe with!
The latter pages of the story are gripping as we witness just exactly how far Edmund has progressed from pussy to cold-blooded killer and the events of Crossed: Badlands #12 definitely take their toll on the psyche of an otherwise harmless young man. This issue is one not to be missed! A brilliant cliff-hanger ending to be concluded next issue in Crossed: Badlands #13 before the beginning of The Darkness writer David Hines’ arc.
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Posted on September 8th, 2012
Category: 50 SHADES OF BLOOD AND VISCERA, REVIEWS
Tags: 50 Shades Of Blood and Viscera, Avatar Comics, Avatar Press, Comic Review, comics, Crossed Badlands #12 Review, David Lapham, Jacen Burrows, James M. Clark