Author: James O'Barr
Year Published: 2009
Genre: comic/graphic novel
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I’ve always wanted to read this and finally, as I take a break from the Walking Dead compendiums and TV show, I decided to pull out The Crow collection. It felt like it would offer a nice reprieve from the zombie apocalypse but also usher in a continuance of the black and white comic. Now having read through it twice, I found myself lingering on the interstitial chapters -the poetry and prose used to convey loss and sadness and trauma is so perfectly combined with the ultra violence of the story of vengeance and wrath and closure. It’s a work I wish I had read when I was more impressionable, as I think I would have carried it’s words through scarring ordeals of my youth. But good art can be found whenever, and a small life change can erase the discomfort of the past. So I’m happy I read it now.