The Crow Comic Book flies again
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
IDW Brings back James O’Barr’s iconic anti-hero this summer!
San Diego, CA (May
17, 2012) – Proving that the spirit of vengeance is timeless,
Bram Stoker Award-winning author and co-screenwriter of the
original The Crow film, John Shirley, has
teamed with Eisner Award-nominated, Fishtown artist
Kevin Colden, to bring the dark spirit back to
comics. Concurrently, the film’s producer Edward R.
Pressman, in conjunction with Relativity Media and
Dimension Films, is in pre-production on a gritty reinvention of
the 1994 cult classic to be directed by F. Javier
Gutiérrez (Before the Fall) and written by
Jesse Wigutow.
The comic book, which explores its own unique storyline from the
film, is set in Tokyo, Japan where the Crow returns in the guise of
a foreign exchange student named Jamie Osterberg. When Haruko, the
love of his life, is stolen away from him, Jamie must search for
answers–ones that turn deadly, and transform him into the
spirit of vengeance, the Crow! With a sword that seeks truth, the
Crow hunts down those responsible for this crime, discovering a web
of horror that may lead him to kill his one true love.
“I was
thrilled to help bring James O’Barr’s The Crow
to the screen, and am equally thrilled to rediscover the character
in this new incarnation of The Crow for
IDW—it’s as if he’s come back from the grave all
over again,” said Shirley. “It feels like The
Crow is taking me on the journey into some very dark realms.
All I can do is come along and hope to survive the trip. It helps
to have a great talent like Kevin Colden along.”“I’m very happy to be able to bring back The Crow with such esteemed creators,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief. “To be able to lead off with John Shirley and Kevin Colden in a story that takes the concept of James O’Barr’s The Crow in very unexpected ways is as thrilling to me as it hopefully will be to fans.”
Also featuring covers from Kyle Hotz and Ashley Wood, the vibrant, exotic setting and rich mythology of Japan should prove a thrilling and intriguing environment for Shirley and Colden’s fresh take on the beloved hero. The first of the monthly five-issue series will be released in print and digital in July, with more series to follow. Plans have also been announced for The Crow original creator James O’Barr to return with his own new series.
THE CROW #1 ($3.99, 32 pages, full color) will be
available in July. Diamond order code MAY12 0349.
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About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels
and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for
its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW
publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the
industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS
and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star
Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO;
Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Toho’s
Godzilla; Wizards of the Coasts Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons
& Dragons; and the Eisner-Award winning Locke & Key series,
created by best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel
Rodriguez. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics
imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints, and Yoe! Books, a
partnership with Yoe! Studio.
IDW’s critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually
moving into new mediums. Currently, Jerry Bruckheimer Films and
Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, while
Michael Bay‘s Platinum Dunes and Sony are bringing Zombies
vs. Robots to film.
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