I’m really getting tired of the rain. I think it makes me sad. And then I think of the line from The Crow: “It can’t rain all the time.” The screenwriters, David J. Schow and John Shirley, wrote that line. James O’Barr, the creator of the graphic novel, never put those words in the book.

That line is so memorable in the movie, and it plays on the touch of hope that underscores Eric’s revenge tour.

I don’t know why I’m thinking of the time when I met O’Barr and he spent a few moments of time explaining how the graphic novel was more successful for him personally than the film. It shocked me at the time. I couldn’t believe a movie wouldn’t make him millions of dollars, but apparently it didn’t. I think The Crow graphic novel is one of the best interpretations of love, grief, and revenge ever created. It stands among the top graphic novels on any shelf.

I guess I could use a touch of hope these days.