Wow. This has been sitting in the queue for a week…I guess I should just get it out there:

So, over at the Girl-Wonder boards, a discussion broke out about “Rape In Comics.” That’s not my topic. I will save that for another day. For now lets leave it at, “Please stop raping comic characters for cheap drama. Give us a few years without it, provide proof that you finally have a story where it belongs and we will talk.”

No, towards the end of the thread, the Crow gets brought up. And a particular point is made. Poster Ayezur states:

It’s really not a story that lends itself well to sequeling…

And you know something? That is so incredibly right, it’s ridiculous.

I liked the first movie quite a bit when I saw it years ago. It’s a pretty simple revenge fable. And that is the problem. The sequel is the same damn movie over and over. I got tired of Superman movies just being Lex Luthor making land grabs* (thanks, Bryan Singer for resurrecting that one), so you can imagine story after story of people coming back from the dead to avenge their loved ones gets old really quick. And you cannot really put a big twist on it.

It’s just “We are pure and in love-BAM! We are dead-sob-CAWWWW-Why I am not dead anymore! I can seek revenge on those who killed my beloved ______ and me!” Over and over! Once was enough folks.

*But wait, you say, Superman III did not have Lex Luthor at all! Of course not. It had the Lex Luthor stand in played by Robert Vaughn, much like Chloe Sullivan is the Lois/Pete Ross/Whoever They Need That Week stand in.