The Crow

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James O'Barr's The Crow is experiencing a pretty hefty resurgence on the eve of its 25th -- and its movie adaptation's 20th -- anniversary. Joining the several new comic book projects at IDW and new movie reboot that's in the works is a new The Crow: 1/6th scale Eric Draven Collectible Figure bearing the likeness of the late actor Brandon Lee.

The Crow creator James O'Barr is apparently going to have a good bit of say in what happens in the new series based on his long-running series, which started in 1989. Earlier this month, production company Relativity Media confirmed O'Barr would serve as a consultant for the film, but it looks like the creator's art is going to be very important to promoting the movie -- at least in the early goin

The Crow creator James O'Barr has come onboard as a consultant for Relativity Media's movie reboot of his 1990s comics series, Variety reports. Among his duties will be an appearance with director Javier Gutierrez at Comic-Con International in San Diego.

After almost two decades of keeping a relatively low profile in the comic industry, James O'Barr is back with a vengeance (literally) in December, writing and drawing a new mini-series for IDW starring his most famous creation, The Crow.The new story, The Crow: Skinning The Wolves, is a three-issue series that takes place long before the original Crow storyline created by O'Barr in 1981... Read Mo

IDW Publishing came prepared to Anaheim, California's WonderCon event last weekend, announcing several high profile comic book initiatives. Besides the previously discussed Womanthology ongoing series (of miniseries) and the full-length Rocketeer project by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, IDW is developing a revival of James O'Barr's The Crow with creators John Shirley and Kevin Colden; brand new Judg

Up until now, you could be forgiven if you were unaware that director Stephen Norrington has been planning a new film version of James O'Barr's 1988 comic "The Crow," because up until now there has been no good reason to care at all about a new film version of "The Crow," which was first adapted semi-interestingly to film in 1994 by director Alex Proyas, and then flogged to de

There's a lot of love going around for "The Variants" on the blogosphere today, and having watched the comic shop sitcom's latest Webisode "Passholes," I'm pleased to report it's well deserved. We've covered the show before here at CA, back when episode three arrived online...