Crossed: Issue 5

Crossed: Issue 5 is the sixth issue in Crossed (Volume One) and the sixth issue overall.

The previous issue was Crossed: Issue 4 and the next issue is Crossed: Issue 6.

Plot
After Stan's group makes it Colorado, he mentions how nobody had seen any of The Crossed in over a week, all of them relishing how quiet and beautiful the world can still be. Stan is amazed that the atmosphere is still as good as it is, since the only nuclear explosion they had seen so far happened over a year ago, and Cindy hypothesizes causing a power plant to explode isn't as easy as "hitting it with a hammer" so most Crossed wouldn't bother with them and even then, the government most likely has the military guarding them to prevent them from trying. Stan thinks to himself, remembering when a reporter had told him a jet from Pakistan dropped a bomb over Delhi and every nuclear warhead in Israel went off at once two days after The Crossed infection began, as well as the rest of nuclear warheads in the Middle East, all towards each other.

Later on, Stan remembers the moments after Cindy had shot Officer Thomas and a young religious man tells the group how he heard a pastor over the radio say that the people that "cross" into the monsters that kill the uninfected are a plague created by God to punish everyone else and Earth would become Hell itself. As the group leaves for Colorado, the man asks Stan if he can hold his gun and he obliges, only for him to commit suicide with it that night. Stan was shocked when he realized that not only did he not know the man's name and not care, but that he was becoming desensitized to everything.

Deaths

 * Three Unknown People - Died off-panel from unknown causes, skeletons shown.
 * Unnamed Man - Committed suicide by shooting himself off-panel, mentioned.
 * Total - 4