Issue Description

Shaky gets Tabitha to create a distraction which only ends up helping him to refine his plan. He also recalls his early days in Mr. Tooley's crew just outside of London. Tooley is called "The Gamekeeper" because he used to work the estate of Thackery's and now he is the de facto leader of a small band which includes his former employers. It is an ironic turn of events which further illuminates Shaky's thoughts on cowardice, madness and leadership.

Crossed: Wish You Were Here (2012)

Publisher

Avatar Press

Volume Description

Volume 1.

Description from the author:

The Crossed pandemic swept through London like a lightsaber through slug meat. Out in the countryside, people might have stood a chance – to run, to hide, to never look back – but in the city? Penned in, seething with visitors and vendors, tourists and tarts…?

Imagine it. The Trafalgar Square fountains running with blood… the Soho streets – previously the haunt of trendy haircuts and media-monkeys – now swarming with sadists… a plane strikes the London Eye like an angry angel and cleaves it in two; red buses rampage like mobile abattoirs; fires gnash at the famous skyline, and – above it all – the endless sound of laughter. Cruel, childlike, vicious…

Imagine the city transformed – a labyrinth plucked from the heart of Hell – and you’ll understand that the odds of anyone getting out alive and uninfected would be a million to one. And then recall that London has – or rather had – a population of seven million. Which means that a handful of people… a handful of impossibly-lucky guys, by the law of averages alone, might just have made it…

Shaky is one of them. Winner of the most important lottery in the world: ejected from a maelstrom of close-shaves and crippling traumas that took him from a quiet Soho café – writing overblown spandex comics as does every other day – to the bloody banks of the Thames Barrier seven miles downriver. Born again into a changed world, tasked with finding a new reason to live. A new sanctuary. And, when he gets there, to wonder What The Hell comes next…

Free weekly web comic companion to the various Crossed print comics.

Official Site: Crossed

On skip weeks another companion series is released called Crossed: Wish You Were Here Interlude.

The second volume begins at Crossed: Wish You Were Here.

The third volume begins at Crossed: Wish You Were Here.

The fourth volume begins at Crossed: Wish You Were Here.

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