Just calling the movie what it is. Also, swearing.
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Tomorrow: NOT Star Wars. At least in the Daily Video. I’m scheduling these all at once so I don’t know what I’m doing for feature articles. No Star Wars comics, though.
I am not the type of guy who would be into this franchise. I’ll tell you that straight out.
The Crow is a dark, gritty place, born out of the creator’s sorrow and a need for catharsis. James O’Barr lost his fiance when she was hit by a drunk driver while coming to pick him up. Already having lived a less than happy life, the Marine manual illustrator (O’Barr was a Marine), he blamed himself for her death, and that plus an article on a couple murdered by a gang for a $20 engagement ring inspired the comic series. That is a very truncated history, but we aren’t here to discuss just the one book.
While the original series is considered the best, it is most likely because O’Barr had a stronger connection to the hero and his story than the writers who came after. However, there is more than one character over the years who has been brought back to life by a crow to put their lives right after being brutally murdered alongside a loved one to enact a gory vengeance on their murderer. While the first one has seen four different takes across movies, television, and of course the comics, the one everybody knows is not the only one, so why the more recent movie couldn’t have simply introduced another Crow instead of remaking the first movie comes down to the name and wanting to do “their version” of a movie that doesn’t need a remake in a franchise that doesn’t require one. Just do the next Crow, keep to the rules, and continue the same continuity. It might not be as beloved, but neither is bastardising the original.
As I did with the various Silver Surfers, I’m going to the Fandom wiki landscape and a wiki dedicated to the Crow franchise. Unlike most people who defend bad adaptations, I’m not trying to prove a point with the most surface level view possible. This is a brief overview of each of the Crows in comics and movies because I thought it might be interesting, and it will prove the point for me: that you don’t have to remake a franchise just to have your version of the fan favorite. It’s a franchise that’s practically an anthology at this point, and unlike a lot of superheroes (if you can call the Crows that) the mantle changes can make perfect sense.
“We’ve got to find a new gym.”
Knuckles The Echidna #24
Archie Comic Publications (May, 1999)
“Dark Alliance” finale: “Primary”
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Jim Valentio
INKER: Harvey Mercaddocasio
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: JF Gabrie
Contains swearing, but that’s what this movie does to most people who watch it.
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Tonight’s planned article is taking longer than I though. If I’m going to make deadline I’ll save it for tomorrow (getting back to it as soon as I’m done here) and I’ll have to drop this one on you instead.
Isekai is a Japanese genre that can best be described to the average Westerner as “what if A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court was a video game”, though I’m sure Japanese media fans will have a bit about that truncation. It’s an intro, folks. I’m not going to go through the whole history, especially when I’m fighting a deadline here. While Camelot technically is another world, stories often treat it like the past, using it as fodder for a story to explain being with King Arthur with time travel rather than interdimensional travel. Most time travel stories actually take place in our actual past, but does that qualify as being in another world? If you want to talk philosophically, maybe, but what about narratively?
In the following video by Mother’s Basement on YouTube, Geoff Thew goes through the question and tries to figure out if Doctor Who is actually an isekai show. Not Doctor Who specifically since he discusses anime. So it’s more like does an anime show involving time travel that isn’t a magical version of feudal Japan still count as isekai? Some swearing will follow. Geoff’s a pottymouth.
I hope he doesn’t try to date Supergirl.
Amazing Mystery Funnies #12 (volume 2 #8)
Centaur Publishing (August, 1939)
I looked up that “Masked Marvel” and it’s just a guy in a mask who fights crime, like the Inner Circle but with odd fashion choices. So Keen Mystery Funnies didn’t impress me. Also, possibly for rights reasons, some of the comics at Comic Book Plus from around this time have stories missing, most notably Tarzan, Dick Tracy, and Little Orphan Annie, who apparently made their way into a lot of these compilation comic books. I’m not going to review an incomplete comic, so this is going to be easier than I thought for a while. Some of what they have in the virtual newsstands are text magazines, and I don’t even review the text stories in the comics. Give them a read sometime if your curious, but we’re getting on with this series. It has a crimefighting centaur.
NOTE: There will be some swearing
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I saw the first two and decided to wait for the third one to post them all together. The next two over the next two days.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW Media Spotlight 