The Crow: Skinning the Wolves

author: James O'Barr

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.55

book published: 2013

rating: 2

read at: 2013/06/27

date added: 2013/06/27

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

If you think Nazis were evil and deserve to be killed in beautifully horrific ways, then this newest installment in The Crow series may be right up your alley.



A train pulls into a concentration camp and all of the prisoners are marched into the gates except one. A lone man stays on the train, and when he is prodded out, explodes in a level of violence that continues through all three issues of the comic represented here.



The camp's commandant is a cruel man who tempts prisoners with life if they can beat him at a game of chess. While this plays out, we see flashbacks of a similar scene indicating the trigger for the violence against the nazis.



James O'Barr returns for this story, and the Jim Terry artwork reaches a ghoulish level that reminded me of horror comics from the 1950s (and I mean that in the best possible way). You don't expect huge plots in one of these stories and this one is no different, but I seem to remember the stories having more sadness and pathos. It seems that the final message is that vengeance can never be quenched, and I found that particularly unsatisfying this time around.





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