• Two very different Crossed scribes open new wounds in the miserableworld of the Crossed! Daniel Way introduces a naval captain and his crewas they attempt to survive the plague of insanity spreading across the globe in"Grave New World." He's a shrewd man and watching the monsters has given him aninsightful plan for saving those in his charge. But whether it's inspiration orinsanity, the crew still faces the gleeful misery of the Crossed. And SimonSpurrier returns to tell a tale set in the infected outback. Todd drives a roadtrain through the desolate Australian desert. Before C-day he was a loser, anoutcast, a fat nobody with a nobody-job. Now he's an Emperor of the wasteland.His rig and its trailers are the safest place around — stocked to the brimwith canned food and gasoline. But his desire to have a harem who worship himopens himself up to the true horrors of the outback. In the world ofCrossed... there is no help. There is no hope. There's only theCrossed.
• This volume collects Crossed: Badlands #44-49 and the CrossedSpecial 2013.