The Crow Skinning the Wolves #1 is a difficult book to
review, and your appreciation and or enjoyment will be wholly dependent on your
reaction to the content.
The Newest Crow is a man who is killed in a Nazi Concentration
Camp, and is reborn to wreak his vengeance.
The art work in Skinning the Wolves is stark and creates a very
evocative mood. O’Barr and Terry have
done an incredible job creating a gritty reality for their characters to
inhabit. With few exceptions the panels are
close up images, putting the reader into the dark world as a direct observer,
in the mêlée. There is a fantastic
sequence where luggage is ripped open and a Nazi walks through the contents,
and over a child’s doll.
The Crow works best an agent of righteous chaos in a corrupt
and vile setting. In this regard placing
the events in a concentration camp is a good call. It is difficult to refer to the character as
heroic, because saving others is a byproduct of his actions, and he is already
dead. In Skinning the Wolves there a
great deal of foreshadowing, setting up the Nazi leader that will be the antagonist
of The Crow.
It is too early to tell if all the elements will lead to a
satisfactory pay off, however O’Barr and Terry are off to a strong start.
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