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Razor (collected editions)
The Crow/Razor: Kill the Pain
James O'Barr's The Crow meets Everette Hartsoe's indie-comic starlet Razor in this sequel-of-sorts to the original Crow graphic novel.
108 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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April 28, 2024
The only thing that was reasonably good about this was the art. I'm not sure I even understood the storyline. Honestly, Kill The Pain, The Crow Image series and Stairway To Heaven all share the same problem: all done a few years after the first movie and all try to add more to Eric's story. None really even accomplish it. Eh, maybe I'll feel better about it in a few years. IIID's review of this story is spot on.
6 years later, while I actually like Stairway to Heaven, its another story where they try too hard. Unfortunately, aside from it being a cash in like Hack/Slash is, most want stories like this that ate a combination of a tormented soul, spouting out polysyllablic(is that even a word?) bits of poetry. Maybe most fans do but i find them dreadfully boring. To me, The Crow is about a brief adventure into pain and grief. Address the depth of it. Don't drown the reader in it. Plenty of classic literature for that.
6 years later, while I actually like Stairway to Heaven, its another story where they try too hard. Unfortunately, aside from it being a cash in like Hack/Slash is, most want stories like this that ate a combination of a tormented soul, spouting out polysyllablic(is that even a word?) bits of poetry. Maybe most fans do but i find them dreadfully boring. To me, The Crow is about a brief adventure into pain and grief. Address the depth of it. Don't drown the reader in it. Plenty of classic literature for that.
July 21, 2024
Ow..I think I cut myself on the edge
December 17, 2017
Clearly the most eroticized version of The Crow in the series. And clearly it is the volume that most favors style over substance of the series. Blood! Guts! Scantily clad women! Oh My!
While certainly there is a narrative, the story itself is very choppy and equally violent. The brutality is enjoyable sure, hey we're reading a Crow comic book here kids, but the story leading up to it feels as brutalized as the violence that characterizes it.
However, no matter how delightful the depictions of physical conflict might be, the characters and the personalities/impetus that underlay them are minimal. The bad guy has no motivation other than the fact that he's evil just, well, 'cause. And the reason for The Crow being around, despite his death in the first, is also unexplained. And sure, it is a comic book and like any comic book there is some presupposition of the suspension of disbelief but, it's no excuse for a lazy story and an even lazier approach to character development.
While I definitely would recommend it for a read I doubt there would be any solid justification for a further re-read.
P.S. The Lost Chapter is stupid!
While certainly there is a narrative, the story itself is very choppy and equally violent. The brutality is enjoyable sure, hey we're reading a Crow comic book here kids, but the story leading up to it feels as brutalized as the violence that characterizes it.
However, no matter how delightful the depictions of physical conflict might be, the characters and the personalities/impetus that underlay them are minimal. The bad guy has no motivation other than the fact that he's evil just, well, 'cause. And the reason for The Crow being around, despite his death in the first, is also unexplained. And sure, it is a comic book and like any comic book there is some presupposition of the suspension of disbelief but, it's no excuse for a lazy story and an even lazier approach to character development.
While I definitely would recommend it for a read I doubt there would be any solid justification for a further re-read.
P.S. The Lost Chapter is stupid!
November 10, 2025
Es un poco caótica. Cuenta la historia de Razor y de como Eric se une a su causa. Esta guay pero se entiende regular. El último cómic quizás es el más ameno.
July 20, 2016
Excellent melding of The Crow and Razor as they team up to battle the demi demon, Pain. Great art and storyline. Highly recommended.
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