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[Panel 1: Inside Sandy's treedome, with Sandy working on some scientific equipment.]
This decay is the comic’s central metaphor. The Crossed plague initially destroyed bodies, but time has now destroyed the mind of humanity. Future Taylor is a tragic figure precisely because she clings to the remnants of old grammar. She is a historian without a historical methodology, trying to reconstruct Shakespeare from a handful of tattered pages she can barely decipher. Moore suggests that even if the Crossed were all killed, humanity has already lost the war—not to violence, but to entropy of meaning.
: It spreads through bodily fluids and takes hold nearly instantly. 📖 Volume 1 Summary
: The virus "turns off" human morality and restraint.