10 Reasons B-List Comics Make Better Adaptations Than The A-List

10. Emotional Resonance: The Crow

"It can't rain all the time"

Eric Draven comes home to find is wife brutally raped and beaten. He is tortured, shot and thrown out of a window. One year later he rises from the grave to put the wrong things right.

Written by James O'Barr, The Crow was a tool for the artist and writer to try and process the senseless loss of his girlfriend and soon to be wife at the hands of a drunk driver. It was a labour of love that took time and great effort to complete, and it gained cult status before eventually being selected for film adaptation.

The finished product made some compromises, sure, but it resonated with audiences deeply and gained a cult following all of it's own. It was a fantastic story of loss, revenge and life after death. A feverish fable, this visually unique and tonally powerful film has every A-list Comic book film beat for heart and drama.

James O'Barr recalled in an interview that at one point studio executives discussed making it a musical and inserting Michael Jackson as Eric Draven. Just close your eyes and imagine that for a minute...