We actually liked the trailer for The (new) Crow! Like Fox Mulder, I long to believe. If something is bad I'm happy to comport myself with reality, but I'm always ready to be surprised by a creative person. I've seen all kinds of shit - even the benighted Direct To Video era we reference in the strip showed human beings were capable of surprises even with the most meager tools. Not in this case, apparently! Not always. But I think we've all found a cool stick and become a sorcerer for a time; magic is where you find it. Or make it.

I'm shocked that bird metaphors don't figure more prominently in these negative reviews - we really only have Rolling Stone's "The Crow’ Redo Could Use Some Flying Lessons," which barely gets off the ground. I thought for sure we'd have some wry barbs about it needing "flying lessons," "landing hard," or maybe some kind of nest thing - but no. In this, perhaps, there is a little light.

There's aspects that come up time and time again in the reviews that I essentially consider spoilers, so I won't relate them here. It does seem like they didn't want to engage in a rote recitation of either the book or the '94 edition, which I understand as a person who makes things. Sometimes you have to save your innovations for the sequel.

(CW)TB out.