Crossed Plus One Hundred Annotations Index

detail from CPOH, Volume 1, cover – art by Gabriel Andrade

Below are all of the Crossed Plus One Hundred stories, as far as we know. The first three arcs of CPOH are complete, and though these annotation pages are more-or-less completed, they remain works in progress. Please comment to correct errors and to fill in things that are missing.

NEW! In late December 2017, Avatar announced a new series Crossed Plus One Hundred: Mimic. The series, which hit comics shops in May 2018, is written by Christos Gage, with art by Emiliano Urdinola. It includes back-up “American History X” stories written by Patrick Shand and drawn by Raulo Caceres. Regular covers are by the excellent original CPOH artist Gabriel Andrade (who already works with Gage on the Moore-curated Cinema Purgatorio series The Vast.) There will be plenty more variant covers, too. The Periodic Fable is annotating the new CPOHM series – see individual issue pages linked below.

WARNING: SPOILERS – all pages except the intro/background page

0. Crossed Plus One Hundred introduction (non-spoiler basic background includes themes, influences, and cast of recurring characters)

1. Crossed Plus One Hundred stories by Alan Moore and Gabriel Andrade:

• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 1 – “124C41+” [One To Foresee For One More] (November 2014)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 2 – “Return Of The King” (January 2015)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 3 – “Glory Road” (February 2015)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 4 – “A Canticle For Leibowitz” (March 2015)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 5 – “Tyger, Tyger” (May 2015)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 6 – “Foundation and Empire” (June 2015)

2. Crossed Plus One Hundred stories written by Simon Spurrier, with artists Fernando Heinz, Rafa Ortiz, and Martín Túnica, with series outline by Alan Moore:

• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 7 – “I Am Legend” (July 2015 – Heinz)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 8 – “Gateway” (August 2015 – Heinz)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 9 – “Last First” (September 2015 – Ortiz)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 10 – “And Men” (September 2015 – Ortiz)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 11 – “The Forever War” (October 2015 – Ortiz)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 12 – “Behold the Man” (November 2015 – Ortiz)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 13 – “Inverted World” (December 2015 – Ortiz)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 14 – “Blood Music” (February 2016 – Ortiz)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 15 – “A Scanner Darkly” (April 2016 – Túnica)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 16 – “Cat’s Cradle” (April 2016 – Túnica)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 17 – “Dying Inside” (July 2016 – Túnica)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred, No. 18 – “The Drowned World” (2016 – Túnica)

3. Crossed Plus One Hundred: Mimic stories by Christos Gage and Emiliano Urdinola, with back-up stories by Patrick Shand and Raulo Caceres (1-5) and Gabriel Andrade (6):

• Crossed Plus One Hundred: Mimic, No. 1 – “War Is A Force That Gives Us A Meaning” and “2060” (April 2018)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred: Mimic, No. 2 – “The Heart And The Fist” and “2076” (May 2018)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred: Mimic, No. 3 – “Intellegence In War” and”2090 “ (June 2018)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred: Mimic, No. 4 – “An Inconvenient Truth” and “2096” (July 2018)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred: Mimic, No. 5 – “A Rumor of War” and “2025” (August 2018)
• Crossed Plus One Hundred: Mimic, No. 6 – “Brave New War” and “2108” (October 2018)

4. Crossed Plus One Hundred miscellany

• Crossed Plus One Hundred, Taste Test (September 2014)
• CPOH general background, characters
• CPOH historical backstory
• CPOH map of place names, sites, and listing of human settlements
• CPOH variant covers: Moore/Andrade, Spurrier/various, Mimic
• CPOH vocabulary glossary
• CPOH nitpicks – minor errors

Crossed Plus One Hundred artist Gabriel Andrade. Behind him are inked pages from CPOH1. Photo via Gabriel Andrade’s Facebook page

5. Some Crossed Plus One Hundred links

• Alan Moore CPOH interview at Bleeding Cool, September 2014
• Alan Moore on Gabriel Andrade – Alan Moore World
• Gabriel Andrade’s website, instagram
  – check out previews of The Vast by Christos Gage and Gabriel Andrade (in Moore anthology Cinema Purgatorio)
• Gabriel Andrade Interview by Flavio Pessanha of Alan Moore Br
• All The Periodic Fable posts tagged Gabriel Andrade
• Collected Crossed Plus One Hundred, Volume 1, trade due September 2015. Volume 2 trade due March 2016. Volume 3 trade due January 2017.
• Avatar announces Simon Spurrier to write CPOH starting with CPOH7
• Simon Spurrier’s short essay about Crossed, violence in comics, Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, and CPOH7.
• Fernando Heinz Facebook, Deviant Art, comicbookdb
• Rafael Ortiz Facebook, blog, comicbookdb
• Martín Túnica website, blog, Deviant Art, comicbookdb
• Christos Gage website, Wikipedia, Twitter
• Pat Shand tumblr, Facebook, comicbookdb
• Emiliano Urdinola website (includes about 50 unlettered Mimic pages), instagram
• Raulo Caceres Facebook, comicbookdb
• Bleeding Cool article comparing Spurrier’s CPOH to Gaiman’s Miracleman
• Bleedng Cool interviews Pat Shand on CPOH Mimic
• No Future For You – excellent review of CPOH1-6 by Emmet O’Cuana at Sequential Art
• Some CPOH discussions over at Reddit’s Alan Moore, Crossed, and Avatar Press pages
• CPOH is published by Avatar Press where you can see advance covers

See this page for more of my Alan Moore annotations.