The Crow

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Summary: This is the best comic ever written...
Review: and I mean that. I don't care about the negative things people have to say about the artwork. Try drawing yourself, you develop your own, personal style, and that of J. O'Barr is a most unique style. To anyone intersted in the movie, get the comic book that started it all. To anyone interested in a pain so strong that death cannot stop it, this is a story for you. I've always looked for something that related to me closely and until I found the crow I was lost. He tells the story as well as any book I've ever read (by the way, don't make yourself suffer and skip around David Bishoff's "Quoth the Crow") and Eric's insane, poetic character puts a kick into the world of the crow.

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Summary: In a lonely place...
Review: "IN THE CITY, WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO HOVER, AND DEVILS COME TO CROON, THE SEX OF THE NIGHT LETS DOWN HER BLACK NARCOTIC HAIR UNDER A YELLOW OPIUM MOON."

The Crow is a story about pain, despair, and revenge. It's about a man who has lost his life and love. He comes back from the dead to kill the people who murdered him and fiance one by one.

I believe everyone feels a bit like Eric Draven does at some point. Agonizingly hurt inside in one way or another. Insane with loss and rage for what has been done. Read this book. With or without that hollow space inside, you will love it. A little graphic on spots, but with good cause.

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Summary: great book
Review: this is one of my favorite movies. I thought I would like to read the book and the reveiw helped me decide. The book is great I suggest anyone buys it!!!

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Summary: True Love...Revenge...Being Utterly Alone...Excellant!!
Review: "Because we do not know when we are going to die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well and yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood? An afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps 4 .... 5 times more. Perhaps not even that.

How many times will you watch the full moon rise ...... Perhaps twenty and yet it all seems limitless."

Words to live by...The Crow is without a doubt...THE BEST Novel or story line I have ever seen or read or even heard about...I have been a fan since the beginning and no one actor or one writer..(Brandon Lee and James O' Barr respectively)..could have so elegantly and beautifully captured such pain and loss and love with a single story...The Crow Lives on..This book is worth any amount of money they could charge...I have read it way over a hundred times and I can never put it down...No Matter how much I try...It is just a great story..If you know what true love and True loss is like

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Summary: True love and unrestrained feeling IS The Crow
Review: The Crow is the only book that will undoubtedly bring tears to my eyes and an aching to my heart everytime I read it; which is close to everyday. I frist heard the story when my boyfriend came over and read it to me... the best way you can possibly hear it. After that I borrowed it for oh, two months, until he begged for it back. Then I bought my own copy... the next day. The Crow teaches you one of life's harshest lessons, and will, I guarantee, give everyone a real slap in the face and wake up call. I can't sit here and tell you this is the best book out there today, because the writer literally poured his heart and soul into it, you must find that out for yourself, but it is true. In all, read the damn thing!!!!! You will NOT regret it.

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Summary: Worth The Money
Review: Well, it was a few months ago when i ordered this book off Amazon, having heard so many good things about it. I am not heavily into comcis and graphic novels, but read the odd one now and again. And for those of you who seem to think this book is for teenage goths, I am just a normal teenage lad who was looking for something to read which was a bit more involving than the mainstream rubbish you seem to get these days.

And all I can say is 'wow'. The art is possibly the best I've ever seen (even if I was kind of suprised by Eric's somewhat femine appearance at times), and the writing is equally impressive. OK, so the gore is a bit over the top and perhaps un-needed, but if you look beneath it all you can see a very tragic story.

I am not even goin to mention James O'Barr and whatever it was that happened to him and inspired him to make this book, because it has no relation to the pure quality of it all.

An excellent read, and not just for goths!

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Summary: The Crow
Review: Well I read a review from a person who didnt like this book and from what the person said I decided to write my own. They said something of only 16 year old goth punk rockers to be interested in it and well I am 18. I think that this comic is the best ever written. If you read the introduction you will notice that the person writting the intro mentions that the writer, J. O'Barr, has lost a loved one so you can tell that when he writes this comic it is from his heart. I acctually saw the movie with Brandon Lee first. This is the best movie ever. Now back to the book itself. As you should know it is about love and revenge. A young man, Eric Draven, and his girlfriend, Shelly Webster, are murdered.....well Shelly was but Eric survives just to die afterwards in the hospital. He then is brought back one year later from the night he was murdered by the crow. Hence he is the crow. The crow guides him to seek vengance for what happened to him and his girlfriend. Now more than just a revenge story, it has a depth to it. Sure it is dark and violent but it also has a little light. Like when Eric remembers the good time he had and the reason why he is killing the others. Now as for the guy who thinks it is for 16 goths and such I think the total opposite. I think it is for anyone who wants to read something that will acctually pull you into it. I personally felt a little sad thinking of what happened to Eric even if it was fiction. I just enjoyed the entire book. To tell you the truth it is up to the person who reads it. Some people will like it others wont but one thing is for sure, its a good comic.

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Summary: Feel the pain ooze off the paper.
Review: This book is amazing. This is the first graphic novel that is both emotionally disturbing and fixating. The pain O'Barr must have been going through, must be emense and it translates well on the paper- The pain simply oozes off the papers.

This graphic novel is a must for those who like the darker side of life, and those who like a good story. It's poetic, sad, funny (in brief moments) violent and disturbing. All the hallmarks of a classic. (You could go as far as to say it is Hamlet for a messed up generation, but I'm not.)

All in all, a great read. This graphic novel has to be up there in the graphic novel top ten list (which would also include sin city, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and others.)

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Summary: Art
Review: I have been a fan of "The Crow" for years and believe it to be one of the greatest graphics novels ever inked. The pain reflected in the story line is monumentous. It took a man on the edge of sanity to write something this. I feel that J. O'Barr has written something here that may never have an equel in its field.

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Summary: disappointment
Review: Melodramatic- falls flat. I liked the art well enough, and amidst all the nonsensical crap, there were a few nice lines, but Lord. How on earth can anyone take this seriously? I don't want to harp on O'Barr's (apparently) working out his grief through this, but maybe it wasn't the best idea. Instead of 'bleeding pain,' mostly it just screams teenage wish fulfillment. Edgy face paint, killing for the beloved and then dying by her grave? Come on. And let's not even get started on the freaking poetry quotations scattered throughout.

I don't know, I kept waiting for it to go somewhere. And it didn't, really. I saw no point to it. I understand it as catharsis, but beyond that... well, there isn't really any other story. And everyone's very one dimensional, they exist only to carry out their predetermined functions, it's all quite boring to read through. Not commenting on O'Barr's personal loss, but as an aside- [Eric's] reaction to her death was ridiculously overblown, and only tangentially related to her at all. She was completely inconsequential and bland, could have been replaced at any moment by any other beautiful buxom blond and have it not matter a whit to the story.

I'm sorry for tearing into this, but I had high expectations for this book, and they weren't, well, met in the slightest. Maybe it'd appeal to young goths, I don't know, try it if you like.