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The Crow: Special Edition
The Crow: Special Edition | J. O'Barr
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When James OBarr poured the pain and anguish of a personal tragedy into the drawings that comprise The Crow, his intensely cathartic story of Ericwho returns from the dead to avenge his and his fiances murder at the hands of a street gangresonated with readers around the world. Now, the illustrated tale that became the thrilling (Los Angeles Daily News) and spectacular (Chicago Tribune) screen triumph is re-released in an expanded version the author originally intended, complete at last with: Thirty pages of never-before-seen artwork, including a new closing segment, Sparklehorse, and the touching new scene, An August Noel A new Introduction by James OBarr Lost sequences restored using the artists original technique This is The Crow like youve never seen it beforethe powerful journey of an avenging angel and a celebration of true love . . . as fierce, intelligent, and unforgettable as when it was first conceived. Suggested for mature readers.
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ChelseaM6010
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Wow. This book. What a beautifully written story. Very graphic and gory, but worth it.

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forestandcrow
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This book. You can feel the raw emotion that the author had while creating this. I highly recommend reading the forewords. It gives you an insight into who "shelly" was to James O'barr. It was beautifully written. As someone who has many friends and family taken too early, this hit hard. The emotions of losing someone and feeling like you should have done more. I also love that it was not redrawn with a computer. Everyone should read it.

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forestandcrow
The Crow | J. O'Barr
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I am so excited to finally read the comic. I have watched the show and the movies. The movie is my favourite. We used a quote from the movie for our wedding vows. I have a crow tattoo as a memorial tattoo that says "it can't rain all the time" needless to say I am excited.

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abookdragonsretreat
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After seeing the movie so many times, I thought its finally time to read the graphic novel. I absolutely adored the whole thing. The poetic yet dark writing. The gory and graphic artwork. I loved seeing the amount of love Eric and Shelly had for each other. It was fantastic and I would definitely reccomend this for fans of the movie or for anyone searching for a new graphic novel to read.

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TCLinrow
The Crow | J. O'Barr
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Dark, violent and steeped in madness and grief. It is heartbreak and heartbreaking, all drawn beautifully as the crow seeks to get his revenge and avenge the cruelty evil inflicted upon him and his love.

I adored this, but it tore my heart out and stomped it... and I only loved it all the more for it.

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The Crow | J. O'Barr
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Still. Holds. Up. 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
#TeamHarkness #scarathlon #TheCrow #MovieNight

MoonWitch94 This movie 🖤😭😍 4y
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BeansPage
The Crow | J. O'Barr
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James O'Barr poured some serious heart felt pain into this series. It's just so sad. Beautiful, but sad. Great artwork. Highly recommend this one.

11pts for #TeamStoker
#Scarathlon

JazzFeathers Ooohhh!! The graphic novel came out here n ltaly some 25 years ago (my goidness, didn't realise it was that long 😱). I was obsessed at the time. 5y
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BeansPage
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Coming soon!!!!

1pt for #TeamStoker
#Scarathlon

JazzFeathers Oh, wow! There was a time when l was obsessed with The Crow. 5y
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TK421
The Crow | J. O'Barr
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After a long busy weekend that kept me from finishing my #LMPBC book, my fantastic bro in law gave me The Crow soundtrack on vinyl that he snagged at Record Store Day! I'm in 90's flashback heaven. One of my all time favorite movies, and possibly the best soundtrack of all time. It has also been a great comic series over the last 25 years.
Brandon Lee was amazing(?) and Michael Wincott played a great villain.
"It can't rain all the time."

vivastory Oh, man... I forgot how great this soundtrack was 6y
JazzFeathers I was obsessed with it, especially with the comic, when it first came out. Loved the film too. But when l rewatched it years later it gave me a lot less satisfation. 6y
tournevis Such a waste that Brandon Lee dies son died so soon. 6y
LibrarianRyan Did you hear they are remaking this movie? A highly disappointing move. 6y
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Coleen_Nieto
The Crow | J. O'Barr
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1. Unexpected outings with my husband resulting in books!
2. Sunny days
3. Good vets! My Daisy was spayed yesterday and the vets are so caring and kind.
# grateful21 @wanderinglynn @VanessaCW

Eggs All sounds wonderful to me! Thanks for joining in 🤗🌺 6y
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EyesOnly34
The Crow | J. O'Barr
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Easily one of the top graphic novels ever. A uniquely touching and heartfelt story of love, loss, and revenge.

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Augustdana
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#riotgrams day five: fall reads. I‘m getting a little predicable with these ones, but I don‘t even care. I read the crow every year around this time.

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DeeLew
The Crow | J. O'Barr
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Ahhhh! Book mail! The Crow is one of my favorite 90s movies. I had no idea this special edition graphic novel existed. It is gorgeous! 😍🖤

TK-421 Wow! 😍 6y
JazzFeathers I was obsessed with the graphic nivel whe it came out together with the film here in ltaly. I suspect l'd be less involved today, but l still think it's a goid story 6y
Zelma I remember being pretty obsessed with that movie. 6y
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Augustdana
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Catching up on #riotgrams day 25: panels, pictures, illustrations. Always a goth in my heart 🖤🖤 the comic book is striking and black and white and very jarring. This movie and soundtrack were my teenage years, which is very telling. This is from one of my favorite scenes in the movie, and don‘t get me started. “If I say that I‘m dead, and I move...”

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MartinaLove
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3/5 ⭐
A sad story about man who wants to revenge his and his fiance death.
I like the story, the drawings were great, thought, I didn't like the choice of writting.
None the less, I think this is a story a lot of you would enjoy to read. They are many great quotes and I laughed here and there.

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Aaronlisa
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I have mixed feelings about this graphic novel. My first introduction to The Crow was the 1994 movie. I won't bore anyone and state how many times I saw it in the movie theatre but I will say it was a lot. It remains one of my top ten favourite movies. I was reluctant to read the original comic because I knew there were vast differences between the comic & movie. I rated this as 4 out of 5 on Good Reads. It was different. But that made it good.

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Meli-chanBooks24
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Brings back memories...