Evil Beyond Reach

The Crow - Image Comics #2

by Jon J. Muth, Paul Lee

More of the stark world of The Crow is revealed and collected in this second volume. The tale of The Crow's vengeance unfurls to create a series of underlying sub plots from the worlds of writer Jon J Muth. Artists Paul Lee and Michael Gaydos combine with the coloring of Mark Nicholas to show The Crow in a stirring light that has never been shown before. This volume collects issues #4 as well as #7 through #10.
-- The Crow is a known entertainment property on an international basis with a very strong following

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

120 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2000

About the author

Jon J. Muth is an American comic artist. His works include J. M. DeMatteis' graphic novel Moonshadow, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: The Wake (along with Michael Zulli, Charles Vess), Mike Carey's Lucifer: Nirvana and Swamp Thing: Roots. Muth has gone on to an award-winning career as a children's book writer and illustrator. He received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for his illustrations in Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse.

He has also created a version of the Stone soup fable set in China.

Reviews

[Krim · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well and truly terrible. Astoundingly terrible. I'm actually struggling to come up with redeeming qualities of this volume. Plot, characters, themes, dialogue. Nothing about this was enjoyable. There were a couple of nice panels I guess?

[A.L. Bellettiere · Rating 2 out of 5]

This, to me, played out a lot like The Crow Stairway to Heaven, in regards to its intentions to put on display what wasn't shown in the movie. I almost swear that Muth used STh as a basis as Eric in here sometimes reminds me of Mark. Maybe coincidence. The one constant thread throughout is the actual crow telling Eric that a virus infests people, which is why people do bad things. That could have gone somewhere but that simply could have been the result of this series being cancelled. Anyways, a story line that featured Albrecht's kid, the desecration of Shelly's grave....let alone a re-interpretation of The Skull Cowboy. Interesting but just not hitting their marks. By the way and correct me if I'm wrong but I could have sworn this might have been cash-in once Image got the rights to release an Eric Draven figure.