The Crow: Fire-Diamond*

An afterlife spirit of vigilantism brings watery justice to the City of Angels, disconnected by blood-diamond dogfathers!

One more vignette inspired by the awesome inventive franchise, The Crow, but this one's a homemade comics dollar. Enjoy! 

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The City of Angels was once envisioned by the inhabitants as a commercial city of great promise. However, this was ultimately just some kind of artistic daydream. It never came to fruition really, not yet anyways.

Fortunately, this US city had a great social worker on its side by the name of Isaac Satan. Isaac worked to bring economic relief to under-represented ethnic neighborhoods in the prophetic City of Angels!

Isaac made a comic book stick-figure character for kids in the LA Gazette called Fire-Diamond. This crow or raven or angel-like vigilante-superhero was a fire-fighter proportioned City of Angels vigilante who wanted to use special ice-guns to destroy shipments of evil blood-diamonds smuggled in from Africa/Europe, used to finance terrorism abroad. This crow-like fictional stick-figure vigilante-angel Fire-Diamond became a sensation with kids learning about economics-strained City of Angels crime linked to capitalism corruption!

Unfortunately, a corrupt City of Angels blood-diamond baron named Norm learned of the social work deeds of Isaac Satan and had him burned alive. He sent his gargoyles of hell to murder the poor soul. However, Isaac miraculously returned from the grave, and some say it was because of the resurrecting spirit of an after-life black-bird called the crow. When Isaac Satan returned from the dead, he transformed into a costumed vigilante and named himself the Crow. The Crow (Isaac) wielded a special extremely-bright UV-light stick which he used to blind street criminals before he tied them up and hauled them off to the police-station in his red truck. The Crow (Isaac) looked like an urban weirdo!

THE CROW (Isaac Satan): I'm back from the afterlife to bring some sanity and clarity to this City of Angels, darkened!

As the awesome mystique of the Crow grew, the adversary of the City of Angels, a dark crime-master began to worry, and this was the same criminal boss-man, Norm, who had the Crow (Isaac Satan) burned alive! This was an apocalyptic showdown between the forces of capitalism deformity and American rhetorics.

NORM: I won't let the Crow or whatever the hell he is, maybe he's Fire-Diamond himself, destroy my arson-vision of hell.

As Norm the bad-guy tried to burn the City of Angels down, the costumed after-life resurrected vigilante the Crow (Isaac Satan) used stolen firetrucks to destroy the crime-master's blood-diamond shipments and haul his street ghouls to jail one-by-one. The papers called this bizarre ordeal the modern rendition of the Gangs of New York.

THE CROW: I've stolen even more blood-diamond silos hidden in the great banks of the City of Angels...from Norm.

NORM: If I fail to destroy this Crow character, they'll make me a laughing-effigy in every firehouse in this USA.

As the Crow's mission began to really take off, the reporters called this the great success in new age inventive vigilantism, and yet no one still knew that the Crow was actually a ghost-man returned from the grave to bring some kind of topsy-turvy urban justice to the City of Angels.

When the Crow left a unit of fire-rescue transformer-robots in front of the LAPD station, the papers realized that whoever/whatever this super-vigilante was or where he came from, he's certainly a true friend of American democracy!

A comic book writer adapted this heroics-tale into one of a series of issues presenting stories about self-made thieves converting to vigilantism to take down the modern rings of corruption linked to blood-diamond hellmouths in major US cities such as the iconic City of Angels.

THE CROW: Maybe they'll remember me as the ultimate fire-diamond messenger of capitalism restoration in the USA!

Some used to say that the greatest sad face of this vigilante-tale was that the Crow himself was very lonely, but perhaps he'd find some kind of spiritual affinity in that place where defiant heroes go to be honored for their simple modern diligence. Maybe!

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)