Rivers Of London

This is an excellent accompaniment to the Rivers of London novels, featuring what's essentially a short story about one of Peter's investigations - in this case into an apparently haunted car. Being co-written by the same author, it has a style that's heavily reminiscent of the books, although the format of a comic book leaves less room for some of the personal asides than a novel would.

Many of the main characters are here, and there are mentions of events in the novels but there's enough explanation of the background that it should be enjoyable without having read them (although if you do, you'll get more out of it, and seriously, if you're into this general type of fantasy fiction you should anyway). The mystery that's the core of the story is good, and the artwork is great giving things a believable, and very British, feel.

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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The Folly – Peter Grant and his boss, Inspector Nightingale – make their way to comics in this collection from Titan Comics. The two are facing a threat right out of a Stephen King novel: a homicidal car.

There's more to it, of course, but that's it in essence.

The story was entertaining, and fully captured the feel of the novels (easier with the writer of the books writing these). This seemed slight – a bit too brief. But it wasn't – maybe it just flowed so smoothly I didn't notice. Maybe there wasn't that much of a story, I'm not sure. I'm willing to give Aaronovitch and the rest the benefit of the doubt.

The best part of this collection is that it solidified my mental image of Grant, clarified my idea of Molly, and reshaped/corrected my idea of Nightingale. The art wasn't dazzling, but it was good.

It didn't blow me away, but it scratched the Peter Grant itch and made me want to read more. If I sound like I'm not totally sold on this, it's because I probably wasn't, but I'm glad I read it and should be reading the next collection in a month or so – so there's that.