Product Description

A tale about the nature of evil and the power of love. It centres on a dark angel who literally rises from the dead to avenge a gang of thugs who brutally killed him and his fiancee on the eve of their wedding. This is the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie "The Crow".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20275 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

justice for victims
This book is unique, I have never read anything which conveys emotions with such power. A beautiful story about love, vengence and the ultimate struggle between good and evil. This story makes me sad because what happens to Eric Draven and his fiance happens all the time to good people -their lives are destroyed by someone else. James O'Barr knows the pain of losing a loved one and he has drawn that pain onto every page of the book in the form of the Crow. Don't expect happy endings -there aren't any...

who ever said revenge is evil & must be tinged with remorse?
I bought this long before the film came out & at once recognised it as watershed point in my life (I was 15). Now older with a wife & kids it still brings the same sense of hope in a hopeless place, love amidst hate. James O'Barrs rage against the motor car & the driver is heavily symbolised, with the setting being Detroit & the murders occuring during a romatic drive, as well as other images. As mentioned in the header, the thrust of the story is about the revenge against the gang who murdered him & violated his fiancee. The revenge isn't as poetic as in the movie, but to me that is a bonus. The revenge is hard, brutal, yet rarely sadistic & in some ways it is sympathetic as if the penalty is death but once death is on it's way there is no need to agonize it. There is an intellectuallism in the book absent from the film too, "martydom is now the price of salvation" being one example. All in all a catharsis for the reader if not for the author

Every comic fan should read this book!
This book is James O'Barrs temple to sadness. I picked it up in a comic shop on the spur of the moment and have read it over and over and it still never fails to move me. It is superbly written with strong characterisation and an incredible violent yet romantic plot set in 1980's detroit. O'Barrs artwork is simply stunning, he embraces a number of distinctive, different art styles in the ultimate story of love and revenge.