A pretty good stand alone fantasy story about a family of travelling Witchers (people who kill monsters) hunting a striga (big cursed monster).The Good: I didn't have to play the video game to know what was going on. The story worked well on its own. The crow boy was pretty awesome.The Bad: The art was just OK. Nothing to write home about.The Ugly: I didn't like how the crow boy part of the story ended. I would have liked to see something more definitive.Received an advance copy from Dark Horse

More a Witcher 3 videogame tie-in than a comic based on Sapkowski's novels, but this grim tale was another very good one from Dark Horse, infused with all the essence and atmosphere of the setting.Grimdark fantasy at its best and a must read for both fans of novels, games or tv series.

Kinda mediocre, all over the place, and unnecessarily prolonged. Just didn't live up to the book series reputation. As for the Striga's story, I can't believe I'm saying this, but Netflix did it better.

I feel like a whole lot of nothing happened. Maybe I was just too tired?

This really felt like playing a side quest in the witcher 3!But it was ridiculous how often they visited bathing houses...just that we could see their rounds in all shapes and angles.

This story is a Witcher classic. I mean that in a few ways, and none of them very good.I read Curse Of Crows as part of The Witcher Omnibus .Curse Of Crows is dark and mature in both tone and art, as per usual with stories from the Continent.It is also a story we have seen many times before. Here, again, we see the now renowned story of the King of Temeria - Foltest, and his incestuous relationship with his sister Adda. And Geralt; being hired to deal with the Striga that was borne of their c...

This was not the best and if you know nothing about The Witcher, this volume is confusing.For some reason this one has a lot of references from either the books, games, or show that if you haven't even see or read or played one, I kid you not this volume will confuse you with how many new people, important people are involved.Story line wise, this wasn't my favorite as it depended heavily on the reader knowing of Ciri and Yennifer, and what they mean to Geralt but it just also never came togethe...

This volume felt muddled and lacking. The art seemed a step down, and the overall arc was roughly paced. Volume two is the standout of this series, while this was unimpressive. It will be interesting to see the next volume with a different writer and artist attached.

Sigh. This one was like a pretty weak fanfic. The story is sort of a sequel for The Witcher short story, where we are introduced to striga. Everything else is a loose improvisation on the bones of Sapkowski's masterpiece. Here's Geralt, here's Ciri and even Yen, and it's not saving this one from boredom. At all. The previous arcs were better. Art is pretty good, but then again all faces look the same, so I don't know, I won't call it entertaining (especially after the mind blowing Scars from Orb...

Ahhh, here we go, some real meat. We've got Ciri, we've got Yennifer. Drama and pathos and adventure and backstory, what I was hoping for in the Witcher comics. I'm assuming this takes place after the game, but since I haven't finished it yet (it's a big damn game!), I'm not positive.

The side story in the first issue was the best part of this collection. It had its share of monsters and local flavour, and a good and not entirely predictable twist at the end. The rest was downhill, with a fairly well-trod moral dilemma that had little of its own to add.I've seen Ciri as a small child in the short stories, and now as a young adult. So far my impression of her has been pretty negative in both. Maybe I'll come around on her, we'll see, but it wasn't here.

Curse of Crows is staggeringly shallow and chaotic story.It borrows a lot from the original tale "Wiedźmin" by Sapkowski, as well it's revolting about creatures created by curse. However, the story lacks dept or gradation to be interesting. Scenes changes too quickly, characters appears without proper introduction to the story so it all feels very superficial (with nude scenes as well). I would consider it a fanfic without knowing otherwise. But to the positive side, the art from Piotr Kowalski

This one adapts the striga story from the books (in flashbacks) and tells a new one about yet another hunt - this time with Geralt, Yen and Ciri. It's an upgrade from Fox Children for sure!

There seems to be a lot of background story (which I totally missed), regarding the witcher family. Graphics were alright nothing to get very excited about. I like the story, it is really the soul of the book.

Same writer but an odd shift in tone and aesthetics. Geralt is even more laconic than usual, and out of nowhere (for the comics anyway) Ciri is now a full-fledged Witcher rising alongside Our Hero.The narrative kind of jumps around in time and place, the better bits being when Geralt was dealing with a Striga in a haunted castle, which I believe was taken from Sapkowski’s Last Wish. The Crow Boy, Elid, was a bit of a nuisance, and the ghoulish story of The Monster a nice change of pace from Witc...

It's almost expected from the Witcher series to have an absurdly beautiful storyline, ending on a high note of melancholy and want for more Witcher stuff. The writer and the game makers have taken the franchise to an unbelievable height, and they keep on surpassing the bar with every move. This comic series was no exception.Absolutely amazing. Loved every panel, every page, every chapter of it. Would have rated 10 out of 5 stars if Goodreads allowed me to.

I recently read and enjoyed the first book in this series but the local library didn't have the second one so I read Curse of Crows, which is volume three. Geralt has somehow acquired a daughter/sidekick/apprentice named Ciri, who is an interesting character although she does seem to enjoy being naked a lot of the time for no particular reason. There's also a partner/boss/lover (Ciri's mother?) named Yennefer who appears halfway through the book. I needed some explanation of the back story, but

“What I want is what you got wrapped up inside you. What I want is your story. Your mother, the shadow you met with, the crow —- they’re pieces of something.”

Meh. As much as I love the dark fantasy that surrounds the Witcher series, I apparently am doomed to find it mostly mediocre in execution. I've tried the games, now the graphic novels...and both are basically the same shade of grey for me. I suppose I'll try the books out and see how that goes. I think at the end of the day I just find the characters and their choices to be kind of bland.

Feels like a step back from Fox Children, but it's hard to determine what exactly went wrong here. It's like Paul Tobin tried to service both the fans of the original series of novels AND the video games, while forgetting about writing a comic book that would stand on its own. There are references everywhere to events seen or read in other works, but either they are not explained well enough or spoon-fed to the reader through awkward expository dialogue - there is no middle ground. The plot itse...