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The Crow: Special Edition
£13.30£16.10 (-17%)
After the murder of his fiancee by a vicious street gang, a man rises from the grave to wreak bloody vengeance upon those who wronged him. Fully remastered and revised by artist James O Barr himself, the timeless story of The Crow (also made into the cult movie starring Brandon Lee) returns in a new author s edition with over sixty pages of previously unseen material, including new story pages!
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Additional information
| Publisher | Titan Books ltd, Special Edition (26 July 2011) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 272 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0857687956 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0857687951 |
| Dimensions | 25.8 x 1.7 x 16.9 cm |
by Katweasel
A Very cool Graphic Novel – Timeless. Highly recommended t anyone who has a slightly nostalgic dark aspect to themselves. The panels all well drawn and the narrative as telling as ever.
by Mark Campbell
being a fan of the movie and the original oomic, this edition is beautifull set up the white cover, and a lot of extra pages which brings more depth to the story.
its good for old and new fans, i think its a beautiful but violent comic, it portrays the tortured charactor of eric dravern, with loads of poetic verses which is strange to find in such a violent story. but it makes it more dramatic and though provoking. to anyone new to the crow. the comic came out of grief, the artist/creater jo o’barr wife was killed, and the crow was born,
so do you really need to buy it if you own the original version?
i kind of struggled with that, is it worth it paying cash for something you already have? in my opinion yes. this is what it was meant to be like, but got cut for various reasons length money. so this new version is actually what the comic should have been when it was first published.
i really love this comic i would go on tour just to promote it 🙂
buy it…. read it…. love it…..
by Tinley
Loved every page. A wonderful tale of loss, love and retribution.
And violence. Plenty of well deserved violence.
by Mr. I. C. G. Bell
You will find 16 five star reviews of the original graphic novel on amazon uk; many gushing over the emotional impact of this work. They will all apply to this “special” edition equally so I won’t discuss the story here. This edition has some new segments the author insists were always intended for the original publication but omitted for technical reasons, so represents the “fuller work” in an important sense.
If you want to build a library of landmark graphic novels “The Crow” certainly belongs in it alongside Sandman and Watchmen; and this is a nice enough edition, well printed on glossy stock. A little pricey for a softcover but worth it I think.
Dramatically, the book dosn’t do that much for me – perhaps because I lack the requisite goth genes. I think this is one of the very few (the only??) case where the movie is better than the original comic. But I can appreciate the technique and pacing involved here. Unlike much in the graphic novel genre, this is indeed Art. The drawing is both strong and stylistically varied , but always comfortingly old school. To quote from the author’s intro : “Everything in here is ink on paper. Even the lettering is hand done on the orginal art. The new pages were completed in the same manner, using twenty-year-old leftover supplies from the original book. Jack White once said ‘Technology destroys art’, and I agree; you’re not learning your craft when a computer does it for you. I do have a computer by the way – its over there in the corner under those stacks of books and artwork, with Post-It notes stick on its dusty screen. A large cache of spiders is nesting in it, so its not a total loss.” . This nicely sums up the nature of the appeal this book has for me.
by Bazzer1966
An incredible graphic novel in a beautiful book, well worth the buy for anyone who enjoyed the movie. It also arrived earlier than expected which was a lovely surprise.
by Rachel
Love the comic. Pristine until someone put it in the envelope. About a third of the bottom corners were turned up & bent when I took it out. Not a big thing maybe but it is for comics/graphic novels.
I’ve sandwiched it between my other ones & they seem to be straightening without creases. Which is good. So please be careful when packaging these items.
by Tinley
When I was fourteen years old I found an old discarded comic with a visually stunning cover in a friend of mine’s garage. Swapping away some Marvel titles for the little group of four, I considered myself the winner of our deal. I’d never heard of Caliber Press, James O’Barr or the Crow but I was blown away by what I saw and in fact had never read anything like it. Not until years later would I hear of the death of Brandon Lee, which saddened me but also stunned me as I realised someone else had happened upon one of my oldest prize possessions and enjoyed them as much as I did.
For anyone who only knows the Crow by it’s admittedly badly dated movie, I recommend this graphic novel collection. What J. O’Barr achieved is an obvious labour of love, but varies so much from the movie as to almost be unrecognisable. The ultraviolence is vivid and gleeful, with hand drawn artwork that only gets better as the man improves over the years. Familiar lyrics from bands like Joy Division and The Cure litter the book as well. Those beautiful covers that first caught my eye are also reprinted here, along with some standalone artwork. I get just as much enjoyment from reading these today as I did all those years ago.
by The Reluctant_Poet
Excellent story and the artwork is sublime