History Creator / CrossGen

* ''ComicBook/{{Mystic}}'', a story of magic and mysticism drawn in a conspicuously Art Nouveau style.

* FanService: The early issues of the core four were rife with it, including panty shots and AbsoluteCleavage. However, a few months in, the creators convinced the senior editor that the books would sell on their innate strengths, and didn't need to pander. You can identify this moment, because all the main female characters suddenly put more clothes on.

* FanService: The early issues of the core four were rife with it, including {{Panty Shot}}s and AbsoluteCleavage. However, a few months in, the creators convinced the senior editor that the books would sell on their innate strengths, and didn't need to pander. You can identify this moment, because all the main female characters suddenly put more clothes on.

* FanService: The early issues of the core four were rife with it, including {{PantyShot}}s and AbsoluteCleavage. However, a few months in, the creators convinced the senior editor that the books would sell on their innate strengths, and didn't need to pander. You can identify this moment, because all the main female characters suddenly put more clothes on.

* PowerTattoo: The sigil itself, a yellow/red yin/yang-ish symbol that grants great power. Some people get variants, such as the double-tailed orange sigil in ''ComicBook/{{Crux}},'' or the negative-space "N" symbol of the Negation.

These four books featured parallel storylines happening to very different protagonists, set in very different worlds, and aimed at very different demographics. Two mysterious beings (dubbed by fans "Creator and Sidekick") discuss the state of the universe and an upcoming crisis, while the Creator decides to empower individuals on different powers by marking them with the Sigil, which grants them access to the Universal Energies. Each story begins with a hero, the [=Sigil-Bearer=], a thinly-veiled [[LoveInterests love interest]], a [[{{Mentors}} mentor]] with softly-glowing orange eyes, and an [[{{Villains}} antagonist]].

After Disney purchased Creator/MarvelComics, it attempted a new CrossGen comic imprint, starting with 4-issue limited series of ''Ruse,'' which still starred detective Simon Archard, and ''Sigil,'' which was InNameOnly to the previous title. Although a third title was added, ''Mystic'', which kept the basic concept of "magical sisters in a fantasy world and the 'wrong' one is TheChosenOne," the various limited series only met with middling success and the imprint was cancelled.

* ''ComicBook/{{Solus}}'', the title meant to expose the mysteries behind the Sigilverse and reward loyal fans with some concrete answers.

After Disney purchased Creator/MarvelComics, it attempted a new CrossGen comic imprint, starting with 4-issue limited series of ''Ruse,'' which still starred detective Simon Archard, and ''Sigil'' which was InNameOnly to the previous title. Although a third title was added, ''Mystic'', which kept the basic concept of "magical sisters in a fantasy world and the 'wrong' one is TheChosenOne," the various limited series only met with middling success and the imprint was cancelled.

* ''ComicBook/ThePath'', a [=Sigil-Bearer=] story set on a Samurai world.
* ''ComicBook/WayOfTheRat'', a Kung-Fu story featuring mythological weapons and described as a "book-end" of ''Series/ThePath''.

* ''ComicBook/{{Crux}}'', set on Earth and thereby revealing the Sigilverse to be taking place roughly a hundred thousand years in the future.

[=CrossGen=] also published a number of books that didn't take place within the Sigilverse, and weren't related to it at all. Since these projects were taken on in the later days of the company's existence, many of them didn't last long, and quite a few were announced but never published, as the company declared chapter eleven and eventually sold all its assets to Disney. Notable among these is ''ComicBook/{{Abadazad}}'', a surreal children's fantasy title which was the incentive for Disney buying [=CrossGen=] out, and thus continues to be published.

After Disney purchased Creator/MarvelComics, it has [[http://marvel.com/news/story/14857/marvel_announces_a_new_imprint announced a [=CrossGen=] imprint]], starting with 4-issue limited series of ''Ruse'' and ''Sigil''. While ''Ruse'' still stars detective Simon Archard, the new ''Sigil'' series appears to be InNameOnly, starring "Samantha Rey, a 16-year-old girl from South Carolina who gets swept up in a war beyond her understanding and may possess the power to turn the tide in the form of a mysterious symbol on her chest even she doesn't understand", and described as "epic fantasy on a colossal scale, ultimately spanning the whole of human history." Subsequently, a third title was added, ''Mystic'', which keeps the basic concept of "magical sisters in a fantasy world and the 'wrong' one is TheChosenOne", but relocates it to a Steampunk Disney movie.

Not to be confused with the common FanFic tag "crossgen", which means "cross-gender", referring to a GenderBender or GenderFlip.

''CrossGen'' was an American ComicBook and Entertainment company that flourished briefly in the early oughties, then crashed and burned rather spectacularly. Its conceit was a SharedUniverse comprised of books in many different genres, all fitting together to create a huge MythArc that early WordOfGod insisted would be at least five years in the making.

A ComicBook company that flourished briefly in the early oughties, then crashed and burned rather spectacularly. Its conceit was a SharedUniverse comprised of books in many different genres, all fitting together to create a huge MythArc that early WordOfGod insisted would be at least five years in the making.

Founded sometime in 1998, [=CrossGen=] started publishing four comics series (dubbed by fans the "four core" books) in early 2000:

* ''Comicbook/{{Scion}}'', a sci-fantasy story set in a techno-feudal world.

* ''ComicBook/{{Route 666}}'', a horror story related to ''Negation'' in an initially obscure way.

* ''ComicBook/WayOfTheRat'', a Kung-Fu story featuring mythological weapons and described as a "book-end" of ''ThePath''.

* ''{{Brath}}'', a [=Sigil-Bearer=] CaptainErsatz of, not ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'', but Creator/RobertEHoward's similar character Literature/BranMakMorn.
* ''{{Solus}}'', the title meant to expose the mysteries behind the Sigilverse and reward loyal fans with some concrete answers.

After Disney purchased MarvelComics, it has [[http://marvel.com/news/story/14857/marvel_announces_a_new_imprint announced a [=CrossGen=] imprint]], starting with 4-issue limited series of ''Ruse'' and ''Sigil''. While ''Ruse'' still stars detective Simon Archard, the new ''Sigil'' series appears to be InNameOnly, starring "Samantha Rey, a 16-year-old girl from South Carolina who gets swept up in a war beyond her understanding and may possess the power to turn the tide in the form of a mysterious symbol on her chest even she doesn't understand", and described as "epic fantasy on a colossal scale, ultimately spanning the whole of human history." Subsequently, a third title was added, ''Mystic'', which keeps the basic concept of "magical sisters in a fantasy world and the 'wrong' one is TheChosenOne", but relocates it to a Steampunk Disney movie.

* FanworkBan: Enacted because of {{Rule 34}}. Not always obeyed.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Plans were made for a pair of tabletop roleplaying games set in the Sigilverse, one d20, one GURPS. They both bogged down in contract negotiations.

MarvelComics has [[http://marvel.com/news/story/14857/marvel_announces_a_new_imprint announced a [=CrossGen=] imprint]], starting with 4-issue limited series of ''Ruse'' and ''Sigil''. While ''Ruse'' still stars detective Simon Archard, the new ''Sigil'' series appears to be InNameOnly, starring "Samantha Rey, a 16-year-old girl from South Carolina who gets swept up in a war beyond her understanding and may possess the power to turn the tide in the form of a mysterious symbol on her chest even she doesn't understand", and described as "epic fantasy on a colossal scale, ultimately spanning the whole of human history." Subsequently, a third title was added, ''Mystic'', which keeps the basic concept of "magical sisters in a fantasy world and the 'wrong' one is TheChosenOne", but relocates it to a Steampunk Disney movie.

* ''{{Brath}}'', a [=Sigil-Bearer=] CaptainErsatz of, not ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'', but Creator/RobertEHoward's similar character BranMakMorn.

* ''{{Brath}}'', a [=Sigil-Bearer=] CaptainErsatz of, not ''ConanTheBarbarian'', but Creator/RobertEHoward's similar character BranMakMorn.

* EvilChancellor: Many of the sigil-bearers acquired enemies. Those enemies often then acquired mysterious advisors with strange powers. These advisors were usually members of TheFirst, who didn't trust this whole sigil-giving thing.

Not to be confused with the common FanFic tag "crossgen", which means "cross-gender".

* CrisisCrossover: The last two comics of the original Sigilverse were ''NegationWar,'' which was going to consist of all the sigil-powered heroes fighting the villains of the anti-sigil-verse. Alas, the company went under at that point.