Gath Ennis and Jacen Burrows take the zombie genre to the limits in “CROSSED.”

Comics have been going zombie crazy lately. Over the last few years we have seen more and more zombie titles such as the popular and innovative “Walking Dead” and the “28 Days Later” series. Comics have been doing what they do best; taking a theme that had become generally stale in the movie industry and figuring out new and interesting angles to bring to the public. However, everything has its limits.

The best example of this is the Marvel Comics “Marvel Zombie” miniseries. What started as a great set of character generations by Mike Millar in “Ultimate Fantastic 4” #21 was followed up by the popular and creative “Marvel Zombies” miniseries by Robert Kirkman both in 2005. The series gave us a chance to see our favorite heroes run amok in a humorous fashion. Marvel then went on to continue with their time honored tradition – taking a good idea and completely over serializing it. The beginning of the fifth installment of the ¨Marvel Zombie¨ franchise was released in September 2009, though the quality of each miniseries has continually diminished. (I could deal with the Marvel Zombie civil war, but Marvel Zombies vs. Marvel´s cast of C-string heroes was unoriginal and pathetic.)