Alan Moore Comes to Avatar Press For Crossed +100

Legendary comic book writer Alan Moore returns to mainstream American comics with Crossed +100, a [...]

Legendary comic book writer Alan Moore returns to mainstream American comics with Crossed +100, a new, 6-issue series set a century after the events of Avatar Press's Crossed, Bleeding Cool reports.

The comic, which will launch in December, will feature art by Gabriel Andrade, and clearly has the approval of Crossed creator Garth Ennis.

"So it turns out Jimi Hendrix wants to play in my band. He wants to sing my songs. I don't usually worry about vindication, but Alan is probably the one person whose opinion would be enough to change my mind about what I do," Ennis wrote. "He's the most talented individual the medium's ever seen or ever will; that he's writing Crossed means everything to me."

"Looking at Crossed, I was actually thinking that this, for my purposes, is a horror story, but it's also a science fiction story," Moore wrote. "I was thinking that Crossed is actually a science fiction story that has got a really, really high horror quotient. So that was the way that I started approaching it. I was treated Crossed as a 'What if?' story, which is the premise of most science fiction."

Moore, who reckons there wouldn't be much left of human civilization a hundred years after the Crossed outbreak, personally designed the covers to all six issues, with each one apparently featuring clues to the larger story.

Bleeding Cool, who are funded by Avatar Press, report that a special "sampler" publication will precede the series' arrival in shops and include exclusive artwork, notes from Alan Moore, and a first look at the series.

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