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"People once believed, that when someone dies,
a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead,
But sometimes, something so bad happens,
That a terrible sadness is carried with it
and the soul cannot rest.
Then sometimes, just sometimes,
the Crow can bring the soul back
and put the wrong things right ."
For me The Crow has always had it's hold on me. From the comic books to the television show, every word of it puts me
on a high. Where I live its hard to find and few people have even heard of it. If you havent yet you are quite the unlucky
one.
The Story of The Crow, begain with a young man named, James O'Barr in the early 1980's after the woman he loved died in
a drunk driving acedent. He begin drawing the comics to vent his rage, inspired by artists such as French poets Georges Bataille,
Antonin Artaud and Arthur Rimbaud, musicians like Iggy Pop(who later played as Curve in The Crow: City of Angels), Ian Curtis
and Robert Smith and the writers Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe and A.A. Attanasio.
"After someone very close to me was killed by a drunk driver, I joined the Marines. I just wanted to stop thinking
and have some structure in my life. But I was still filled with such rage and frustration that I had to get it out before
it destroyed me. One day I just began drawing The Crow; it came pouring out. My character Eric is able to return from the
grave because some things just cannot be forgiven; and I believe that there could be a love so strong that it could transcend
death, that it could refuse death, and this soul would not rest until it set things right."
"Writing The Crow didn't help at all," he says. "I thought it would be cathartic, but as I drew each page,
it made me more self-destructive, if anything. There is pure anger on each page, little murders. I was more messed up by the
time I was done with the book. There was a rumor going around when there was a delay between the third and fourth issue that
I had committed suicide. I was annoyed by that,because God's had his elbow on my neck for this long, I feel I can stick it
out. I'm not ready to put a period on that sentence yet."
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