Southern Cross got cancelled after fourteen issues. First twelve issues are collected into two volumes. Didn’t know about cancellation when I bought the volumes from sale. Glad I didn’t because I wouldn’t have got these if I did. At least first volume was enjoyable.
Southern Cross is mix of Sean Connery’s Outland and Lovecraftian horror. It is about space ship going to Titan when something weird happens on ship. Won’t go into spoilers but first volume’s ending is proper send off point. Story works if it ended there. Hope second volume ends in similar fashion. Not planning to get those last two issues because I am sure they end middle of story.
I have one issue with the book. Protagonist’s actions don’t seem to have consequences. At the beginning it is told she suffers from consequences of her previous actions but as story goes on she does things she should be locked away for. It starts from small but at the end she can do almost anything without getting reaction from others. Everyone is like nothing happened. I can look past it for a short while but in long run it is issue.
I learned about Southern Cross from video praising its art. First volume is worth getting for the art and most of the story. Art does good job giving feeling of being in space ship and showing protagonists other worldly hallucinations. I like how story and art mixes hard scifi into weird and other worldly. At least this first volume is worth getting because it ends how you could end this kind of story. It won’t end there but it could have.