Part One Review by: Cole.

I just finished reading the opening segment of "Hauntis," the official first-step in this
important CROW project we refer to as "C3." "Hauntis" was scripted and drawn by
Acidpet, with poetic colloboration with tWISTEd (did Acid write the dialogue, also? Just
wondering ... good stuff) I have to say, I am VERY impressed by what I saw. It's hard to
tell where the story is heading with only a few pages to read, but I suppose that's the
point. It seems as though this segment is only the Prelude to Acid's actual vision.

Visually, this comic succeeds on ALL levels The angular style/shape of the figures and
intentional haziness of the background serves to emphasize the characters - the avatar's
pain is very lucid here, and that is a definite PLUS. I also like the expressions displayed
by Acid's characters ... very intense and strait-forward. The ACTION is also crisp and
captivating - the SHOTGUN BLAST was very cool!!

The use of DREAMY GREEN SHADING is also equally effective. Acid's obvious passion for
the surreal is refreshing. The color of green has been greatly ignored by the majority of
CROW projects, so "Hauntis" bears a very original quality.

As expected, tWISTEd's words carry a distinct & sinister Crow-vibe, reminiscent of
O' Barr's poetic brilliance. Very powerful poetry (as always), tWISTEd.

I have a minor criticism, which isn't meant to insult or detract from the high-quality comic
Acid (and tWISTEd) has created. BUT, I feel the 'cursing' may have been a bit overused in
the dialogue. Like I mentioned above, there is some GREAT dialogue exchanged between
the characters, but the swearing just seems overbearing. Just my opinion. It is a very
tiny complaint, though.

*THIS IS A UNIQUE AND EXCELLENT COMIC, ACID!!* IT CERTAINLY WAS A GREAT WAY TO
OPEN "C3!" I LOOK FORWARD TO FUTURE "HAUNTIS" EXCERPTS!

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Part Two Review by: Kiangshi.

Part 2 of AcidPet and tWISTEd sPINe's The Crow: Hauntis not only illustrates the growing talent
among the murder of crow fans on the Internet, but once again gives us a crow protagonist with whom
we actively (and somewhat blindly) seek revenge.

Tyler, past the confusion of the initial awakening, cuts a bloody tide of retribution through several
bikers whose role in Tyler's nightmare is as yet unknown. We can only assume the very worst,
as whatever happened to this particularly brutal deadman and his one true love remains a mystery.
We are yet to see Tyler's own Atrocity Exhibition, complete and uncensored, and perhaps we may not.
Crow stories such as Wild Justice have shown that the Crow story has more than one angle, and is far
from a black and white issue.

In Hauntis, rather than the cause of Tyler's pain, we see the toll it has taken, and the bloodthirsty
vengeance that is slowly painting Tyler's world darker shades of misery. Tyler, it appears, is
beginning to believe that none of this will bring him closer to his lost one, and who can argue with him?
The crow itself is nowhere to be seen, and in its place there is only another wayward soul, and
she too holds no answers.

Visually, Hauntis is far superior to AcidPet's previous works, and Hauntis Part 2 indicates that the
artist/dialogue writer is beginning to truly familiarise himself with Tyler, as the dialogue flows
more freely than in Part 1 and the art is more consistent in its high standard. The use of computer
generated blurs and lens flares is masterfully executed and give the series a nurtured look, and the
use of green filtering gives off a sense of unease that imparts to the reader an idea of Tyler's own,
distorted concept of this new reality. Dialogue, at times, can seem a touch affected, but contains all
the right emotions at all the right moments; a burning, skeletal Tyler elucidating the fact that
there is no chance of escape, shows the full extent of this particular Crow's psychosis.

tWISTEd sPINe's bookend verse's (Hauntis 2.1 and 2.2) lend to the surreality of the situation in which Tyler
finds himself. Tyler's persona is interwoven into the poetry, his words permeating the text in an
eerie, ‘come play with me' fashion. The work appears to be in its format a tribute to the original
Crow comic penned by James O'Barr, as it owes much to O'Barr's style and format.

Hauntis has left much to explain in the concluding chapter, as is the way for many Crow stories, and may
very well reveal less than we anticipate. Whatever the conclusion, Tyler's story will be one
worth remembering and retelling.

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Part Three Finale Review by: Kiangshi.

Memory, when pure, is the greatest gift a human being
can possess. Tyler's death was a murder. It was a murder not only of body, but of the purity of memory.
How can you think of the person that means the most to you, the one you live for, if all you can see
is a priest of darkness enveloping and destroying her with a thousand thrusts of meaningless cruelty?
How can you think of anything you have ever known without the sky caving in, and the streets decaying?
Without her you are nothing, you lived for her, you died for her, and now, you live for her again. How
can you repay? How can you hope to rend gratification from the stone that is sinking you? An
eye for an eye, a tear for a tear, a soul for a soul.

A memory for a memory.

Has Tyler sunk too deeply into his vengeance to see
the wrong of his actions? Are they wrong at all? Tyler cannot discern, cannot remember, his memory has
been stored away like a shadow in a corner. For all his bravado he is hiding from it, he does not wish
to see it, and yet in Part 3 of Hauntis it rises up, coughed forth like a mouthful of blood, its
coppery taste like a lie, a lie that Tyler will not believe to be true. Yet he knows it is.

Part 3 of The Crow Hauntis delves into Tyler's inner
most demons and gives them flesh for Tyler to rend, gives them memories for Tyler to repay. We find
the heart of Tyler's sorrow, the cause of his pain, but the question remains, is this pain enough to
warrant the pain Tyler will inflict inturn? The voice that calls out to Tyler is the voice of
retribution, and all others who try to reach out to him drown in its tide of inky blackness. Tyler
refuses to heed the warnings of his guide, he refuses to believe anything that will stop him
returning to his loved one. Where this leads is an unknown, a path of darkness.

The final of the three story arc brings all of the
loose threads of Tyler's actions together and threads them into a surreal tale of terror, a memory
from what had been a gentler time, and this shows strongly with the contrast from the usual green
filtering used throughout the comic up until this point. In the usual Crow fashion, the person pulling
the strings, this time a priest, is not a criminal with a hope of forgiveness in the eyes of our
protagonist. He is evil, the source of it in the world of that particular Crow's reincarnation, a
bearer of the mark of Cain. Shades of the mindlessness of The Crow: City Of Angels creep into
Hauntis at this late stage, we find there is no method to the maddness, merely a madman not unlike
Judah Earl who simply enjoys inflicting pain. A priest in the church of sadism. Tyler's actions become
so erratic, his choice of victim so unexpected, that we begin to wonder whether his memory has
overwhelmed him or disappeared entirely. Does he even remember what it was to be human, or is it that
very thought that drives him? The Crow community owes Acidpet and tWISTEd sPINe much for bringing this
story of beautiful, tragic pain to us. We wait in hope of a silver lining.