Most Crossed spin-offs stay close to the outbreak's early chaos, but one entry takes a completely different approach to the timeline.
Our complete Crossed universe reading order maps where every major spin-off fits chronologically, and that guide points here specifically for this one.
Crossed +100 earns its own dedicated spotlight because it is not just another spin-off following a new cast through the early outbreak; it jumps the timeline forward by a full century.
Here is what the series actually is, who made it, and why that time jump makes it stand apart from the rest of the franchise.
Crossed +100 is set roughly one hundred years after the original Crossed outbreak that turns ordinary people into violent, predatory attackers once infected.
Rather than following survivors in the immediate aftermath of the plague, the series follows a small society that has spent generations rebuilding some version of human civilization in the outbreak's long shadow.
Writer Alan Moore took on Crossed +100, a genuinely notable creative pairing given Moore's standing in the comics industry and his history of redefining other long-running horror and superhero concepts.
Moore built out an entirely new hundred years of missing history for the Crossed world specifically for this series, rather than simply time-skipping the existing cast forward; readers who know Moore primarily from his landmark Swamp Thing run will recognize the same willingness to rebuild a horror concept from the ground up rather than just continuing it.
The series explores how a surviving pocket of humanity might actually reconstruct language, culture, and social structure after losing the basic infrastructure of modern civilization entirely.
That rebuilding angle is what separates Crossed +100 from the rest of the franchise tonally; it is less about immediate survival horror and more about what a changed, scarred version of society looks like generations out.
Part of Moore's approach involved considering what happens to the infected Crossed themselves over a hundred years, not just the uninfected survivors trying to rebuild around them.
That long-view question, what does a plague like this look like after a century rather than a single violent year, is one of the more distinctive angles Crossed +100 brings to a franchise mostly focused on the outbreak's early chaos.
Gabriel Andrade illustrated the series, giving Crossed +100 its own distinct visual identity separate from the artists who defined the look of the original Garth Ennis-written run.
That visual separation reinforces the series' standing as its own distinct entry rather than a direct visual continuation of the earlier Crossed books.
Crossed +100 does not require having read every other Crossed spin-off first, since its century-later setting makes it function as a largely self-contained story within the shared premise.
That said, readers who want the full picture of how the franchise expanded over time should still check our complete Crossed universe reading order, which maps where this series sits relative to the earlier entries.
Because Crossed +100 reads as a complete, self-contained story rather than requiring the full Badlands anthology or earlier spin-offs, it is a reasonable entry point for a reader who only wants to try one corner of the franchise.
A current-age resealable comic bag is the right baseline for protecting single issues of a shorter spin-off like this one.
Crossed +100 was published as a focused six-issue series rather than an open-ended ongoing title, which keeps it a genuinely manageable project for a reader who only wants to try this one corner of the franchise.
That shorter length is part of why it works well as a standalone entry point: a reader can finish the entire story without needing to track down dozens of back issues across multiple printing runs.
It also makes Crossed +100 a realistic target for a complete, fully bagged and boarded single-issue run, something that is much harder to commit to with a hundred-issue anthology like Badlands, and a reasonable weekend project for a new reader to finish start to finish.
Roughly one hundred years after the original Crossed outbreak.
Alan Moore, with art by Gabriel Andrade.
No, its century-later setting makes it largely self-contained.
Yes, it is set within the same shared Crossed premise, just generations later.
A self-contained spin-off like this one is an easy entry point to protect properly from day one; start with current-age comic top loaders for any key issues you pick up.
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