| 1 | !!The comic book series: |
| 2 | * CreatorBacklash: James O'Barr would come to regret the comic because he saw it as glorifying revenge and likened the death of Creator/BrandonLee (who he had become friends with) while making the comic's film adaptation to reliving the loss of his fiancée, which inspired the comic in the first place. He would further be quoted as saying, "I wish I had never written the goddamn thing." However, the Special Edition released in 2011 shows that O'Barr has since come to terms with the work, seeing it as about true love and the importance of self-forgiveness. This is thanks in no small part to Lee's fiancée Eliza Hutton, with whom O'Barr became close. Sadly, aside from ''Sundown'', it's one of his few works that most people enjoyed. |
| 3 | * CreatorBreakdown: O'Barr wrote the comic as a way of dealing with the tragedy of his fiancée being killed by a drunk driver. Despite the cathartic intent behind making the project, O'Barr later admitted that it actually made his emotional problems ''worse'', and that, combined with Brandon Lee's death during shooting of the film, made O'Barr disown the comic, not being able to come to terms with it until much later. |
| 4 | * LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: A definitive "special edition" of the comic was released in 2011. It features a new foreword by O'Barr and new or previously unseen artwork that O'Barr intended to include in the original release but couldn't due to the constraints of the format, in which page numbers had to be multiples of 16. The additions include but are not limited to: |
| 5 | ** An extra page in Gideon's pawnshop, in which Eric advises young rookie cop Albrecht to reconcile with his estranged wife. |
| 6 | ** A flashback sequence of Eric and Shelly dancing together. |
| 7 | ** A flashback sequence called 'An August Noel' which O'Barr says was so autobiographical in nature that it was simply too painful to include it the first time around. |
| 8 | ** A penultimate sequence called 'Sparklehorse', in which Eric [[spoiler:mercy-kills the horse in the barbed wire from the earlier 'Shattered in the Head' sequence, symbolising his final acceptance of the fact he wasn't able to help Shelly]] and has a discussion with the crow that very explicitly lays out that he's been trapped by his anger at himself as at the gang who attacked him and Shelly that night. The sequence takes place between Eric killing T-Bird and the final sequence of Eric at Shelly's grave. |
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