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Crow: The Dead Time

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O'barr does it again. This book has it all- beautiful art and poetry (not to mention the storyline). If you loved the original crow, you'll love this. Nuff said.

Well,I am a die hard crow fan.I watch the show ,saw the movie , and read this graphic novel. I think that the story line is great (I am emersed in the story line of anything crow related),However , if you saw the movie , this is great graphic novel for the reason that it has the cool crow story line working for it , but o'barr puts it in new words.Fantastic.A must have for all crow fans.

I thought the art was reasonably well-done, though it ain't James O'Barr's drawing. The story wasn't all that bad, pretty original, but it seemed kinda stupid to me. I mean, Confederate soldiers reincarnated as a biker gang. Not really all that far-fetched, but why would the Crow wait that long? I mean, let's look at our past Crows...one year, months, weeks, days, same day... I guess, revenge requires a sense of timing too, though it really didn't work for me. I also didn't feel a lot of the emotion I felt with O'Barr's story. I guess, I'm so used to the lyricism and poetics of the original, that anything less just seems like crap to me. Anyway, this book is work a look, but I honestly do not think that any Crow comic will ever be as good as the original.

It was not as good as the first book. It was a good story, but the images were very dark.

I was a little disappointed in the quality of the book. The description said that it had a tight binding but the binding was quite loose with some of the front pages wanting to fall out.

I bought this book wanting more of want I got in the first volume of The Crow and all I got was utter disappointment. To make something great you need to spend time with it and none was given to this book. The Crow in this book lacks in so many different areas I dont have enough room to even list them all. The number one lacking area of the Crow is the underdevelopment of his relationship to his loved ones, which helps the reader connect with the crow and want the revenge the crow needs to find peace. In the first Crow book the memories of the love fueled the fire of anger and revenge for Eric, but for Joshua, the new Crow, has none except for the actual killing of his family which happens over a century ago. Oh and have I mentioned the actwork in the book is sub-par in comparision to that of James O'bara. Thank god the third volume has a better story line, more development, but not enough, and the artwork is increasingly improved, but by the same artist. I must say that if I had never read the first volume then this book probably would have scored higher in points with me.

What is most impressive about this, and the other three sets of comics about the Crow that Kitchen Sink Press published (just before closing down their comics department) is that they truly explore the Crow mythos in a way City of Angels never did. Each comic explores and expands a different area.

In Dead Time Joshua, a native american farmer, is killed, but he doesn't return straight away. In fact, it is 100 years later when he bursts out of the ground. He hunts down the killers who, reincarnated, nevertheless start again on their life of crime. He gives them a chance to repent, and they do not.

Now the question to ask is this - had they not been evil men, just stupid, and had returned, led a different life, been good citizens and all of that, would Joshua have come back?

This book is an excellent read based on the comic by J. O'Barr The Crow saga continues in this new story of in which a Crow warrior is awakened 100 years later to get revenge for the injustices done to him and his family.

This was the first Crow novel I read and I thought it was really good.I enjoyed it even though I didn't know much about the crow.The art work was great,and was really well suited for the story line.If you like graphic novels or The Crow,you will like thisbook.Buy it!

The book is great. A very good story, and the design and drawings fit perfectly in it. But even though I liked it a lot, I can't say it's better than the first one. If you're a Crow die-hard fan as I am, you sure want this book. If you're not, buy it anyway. I'm sure you're gonna like it.