It’s been awhile since comic creator James O’Barr’s iconic
character The Crow has seen the light of day much less been a comic book in
which he took part in but with this latest series The Crow: Skinning the Wolves O’Barr returns to bring an all new
and different character that readers have never seen before. In this new story O’Barr shares story create
with Jim Terry (who also contributes the art) and O’Barr himself contributes
the breakdowns for the script.
This new story takes place in 1945 inside a Nazi
concentration camp where the prisoners are lucky to see the morning of another
day but salvation comes in the form of a resurrected man, a new Crow, bent on
righting the wrongs done to him and his family.
O’Barr and Terry have crafted a different type of Crow tale as this
story starts off with a bang as our no-named Crow quickly dispatches several
Nazis as soon as his train arrives at a European concentration camp. He is making a point to the Commandant of
this concentration camp with his bloody arrival that sets the mystery in motion
of who this new Crow is. This new Crow
and the Commandant have a deep rooted history that lies at the heart of this
Crow’s vengeance and this is revealed slowly throughout the story like a
typical mystery thriller.
This story does not skimp on the blood and gore either as
Nazis are literally torn apart and even the horror of a Nazi concentration camp
are revealed. At only 3 issues (as
originally published) this is a fast and brisk story yet it hits upon the real
life horrors of WWII while telling the ultimate revenge tale of an unlikely
hero to the Jewish people. This is a
great start to what I hope is a continuing mandate to bring to light more Crow
stories.
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