Remember when you were a kid and Nintendo released the Power Glove and based a whole movie around it and you pissed your pants with excitement and cried until you got one and then you got it out of the box and then you slowly started to realize how badly that it sucked?

Well, maybe not, but whenever a spin-off comic book series comes off of another comic book series that was really, really good, I get that old familiar feeling of being tricked into buying a Power Glove from Nintendo again.

So, since Crossed was one of my favorite comic book series of last year, I have to say that I wasn’t looking forward to Crossed – Family Values with as much excitement as if I were, say, eight years old again and too busy getting distracted by the flash of Nintendo cereal to notice how shitty the Power Glove actually was.

There are a couple of reasons for my hesitation, though that had nothing to do with those bastards at Nintendo.

The first reason is that Crossed really has one main theme, and I wasn’t convinced there was much else that could be done in the milieu to keep it interesting. What theme is that, you ask? Well, the rather upturned notion that humans in a zombie apocalypse wouldn’t fare well because of their inherent natures, not in spite of them. It was a pretty brilliant and dark turn on the old idea that we’d all band together and, you know, help each other out, but it’s also rather one-trick. Once you’re read through the first series, the idea is pretty fucking clear what the writers think of mankind, generally speaking.

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