Crossover # 1-13 Complete Run 2020-22 | Cates, Shaw (Image Comics) For Sale

Crossover (the new comic from the creative team behind the extraordinary God Country) is an absolute home run and one of the best debut issues (really, one of the best single issues generally) that I\'ve read all year. If you\'re wondering whether the quality of this comic meets the hype? My answer is an enthusiastic \"hell yeah\". Crossover is an absolute popcorn thrill ride of a comic. It\'s a meditation on the significance of fiction and on our relationship to fictional characters. And it\'s also...a story about love and hope and community? Above all of that, it\'s a stunning work of art that you can stare at slack-jawed all day. Crossover is off to a fantastic start.

Crossover begins by asking an interesting question. Who is more real, Superman? Or you (the reader)? Over the course of the first few pages, the narrator makes the case that the answer is in fact “not you”. But this is just preamble, to introduce you to the main premise of the comic, and it’s a hell of a premise. On January 11, 2017, a futuristic city filled with superheroes and villains from every different company appear inside of (or, on top of) Denver, Colorado, in the midst of a giant crossover event-style battle (think, Infinite Crisis, War of the Realms, etc.). This causes mass death and chaos which begins to spread. One of the superheroes eventually creates a giant force field around all of Colorado in order to contain the damage and chaos, and after that happens, everyone outside of the bubble loses all contact with anyone inside.

The story picks up some number of years later as we see Ellipsis (or Ellie) Howell walking to her job at a local comic shop in Provo, Utah. This isn\'t a riskless proposition, as Ellie is wearing superhero cosplay on her way to a job at a comic shop. Both of these things mark her as participating in activities that are now shunned by many in society (given the very real damage and chaos that these \"fictional\" characters have caused). The comic shop is a busy and chaotic place, and things take a turn for the even more chaotic. I don\'t want to say any more; this story is full of surprises that are worth your discovering for yourself. Suffice to say, the end of the first issue of Crossover sets up some really exciting and fun ideas.

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