Since the release of the first photos of Bill Skarsgård as The Crow, he’s been compared to the Jared Leto Joker. Which is fair enough: It was the first thing that crossed my mind as well. But I soon remembered an older touchstone: The Crow: Wild Justice mini-series from 1997. The new Crow film is … Read more
The Crow and the Caliber Years: James O’Barr Part 2 Part 1: The Crow Creator James O’Barr’s Early Years Part 2: The Crow and the Caliber years Part 3: After The Crow: The Works of James O’Barr James O’Barr has published around 416 pages of sequential art in his life, not counting things he wrote … Read more
Special thanks to John Ekleberry and his website The James O’Barr Collector and John Bergin and his Instagram account. Part 1: The Crow Creator James O’Barr’s Early Years Part 2: The Crow and Caliber Years Part 3: After The Crow: The Later Works of James O’Barr Note: I might receive a cut of any referrals … Read more
This article was written by Michael Crisman and originally published in 2019 at Peakd as part of his Michael’s Longbox series. It’s republished here with permission. — KF. If you know anything about James O’Barr and Everette Hartsoe, then you already know why this project had been waiting to happen for almost ten years. Both O’Barr and … Read more
Welcome to Sewer Mutant, the podcast that takes you way underground to excavate comics you won’t find anywhere else. You’ve probably heard of The Crow, James O’Barr’s tale of revenge that became a film, TV show, and pop culture phenomenon. But O’Barr did a few lesser-known works that I’ve been obsessed with for years. For … Read more
From Gasm # 4 by James O’Barr Part 1: The Crow Creator James O’Barr’s Early Years Part 2: The Crow and Caliber Years Part 3: After The Crow: The Works of James O’Barr Note: I might receive a cut of any referrals to Mycomicshop.com. Even if they sold fairly well, most Outlaw Comics existed on the … Read more
So you want to read some Outlaw Comics and don’t know where to start. Don’t worry, your friendly neighborhood Sewer Mutant has you covered. For better or worse, building an Outlaw Comics collection generally means haunting your local quarter bins or shelling out for back issues on sites like Lone Star Comics or eBay. But … Read more
Content warning: this article discusses comic books that portray violence, including sexual violence, in a graphic manner. I don’t describe these things in detail in this article (though might discuss them in more detail in future articles) and have tried to keep the illustrations relatively tame, but some do contain gore and sexually suggestive images. … Read more