2019-01: 3.5 stars. A little episode in the life of Peter, Guleed and Nightingale. I am so glad that Guleed is getting pulled into Falcon cases. This time it's killer cars, with a tie to a situation in Nightingale's youth. There were some funny moments, and while not as dark as the books, there's still evil for the Folly to deal with.2018-08: 3.5 stars. Not as good as the novels, but enjoyable, and Guleed has a large presence in the book, so I'm happy. And Stephanopolous' reaction to Peter showi...

For those of us who cannot get enough of the Peter Grant story, nor fast enough, the producers of Titan Comics have teamed Ben Aaronovitch up with gifted illustrators Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan and Luis Guerrero to give us some very entertaining graphic work.Five comics were combined into one compilation marking the first of the Graphic Novel stories in this expanding universe of FREAKING AWESOMENESS!! This one, about some haunted autos, as well as some Nightingale backstory, follows the gener...

It was fun to get a Rivers of London book in a graphic novel format, even if all the characters were not exactly how I pictured them in my head. The story was pretty good, a nice open and closed case all within one volume. It’s been over 6 months since I listened to The Hanging Tree, so this will tide me over until my hold on Lies Sleeping finally comes in.

Despite an affinity for both the written word and the visual arts, I have yet to be engrossed in a graphic novel. Quite honestly, I have yet to be even a little bit moved. This is clearly a case of "it's not you, it's me." The artwork is nicely done, the color shading appealing. Panels are shaded sepia and autumn tones if they are memories, a nice trick as Aaronovitch's books incorporate Nightingale's past in Peter's investigations. The narrative voice is set off in rectangular orange boxes, a c...

OK, let's talk Peter Grant Body Work. Graphics/art work - didn't knock me out of my socks, but it was very decent and neat. I hate airbrushing (I know, I am repeating myself, pardon me) and it looks exactly like one, but it's just my personal dislike that shouldn't influence anyone's opinion. I hated Molly's looks. And actually all characters looked too... generic? Especially Peter, but I guess like everyone else here after 6 novels I have my very own image of him and it's not really a reproach,...

I will admit that I came late to the party over "The rivers of London" but I will gladly party with the best of them over it. The book series is brilliant although I will reluctantly put my hand up and say I am only part the way through the published titles. So when I heard that the story was skipping over to comics and graphic novels I could not resist.Now I am not sure where I saw it but these stories actually fit in with the series of novels (in fact there are a few veiled references in the f...

Rivers of London follows in the footsteps of a rather familiar concept- a secret police force that deals with supernatural events. Rivers focus on a team called "falcon" that is a part of the London Metropolitan Police. In "strange" cases they get called out. Peter Grant is a detective with Falcon and has been called to the scene of an accident where a BMW and driver plunged into the Thames river.Eventually we meet the rest of the team. Of them all I liked Nightingale the best. Det. Grant is als...

The first of the graphic novels based on the book series Rivers of London. Set between Broken Homes and Foxglove Summer . Happily it is a good as its print cousins.

“A perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter“I read the complete series and one of the novellas/short stories and wanted to see, how and what the comic adds to it.Ok, so I pictured Guleed shorter and lighter, more Middle Eastern looking. And Stephanopoulos thinner and less well dressed. And with dark hair? Peter I picture looking like John Boyega, because I find him pretty cute. Too young for me, but whatever... So, I am pleased that the comic isn‘t that far off on that front. I never had a pretty c...

I really needed a new Peter Grant story in my life right now, and this has delivered. The story is good, the humor and the characters are all there. The story has the same fun mix of police procedural and spook, this time involving haunted cars that drive themselves with homicidal intent. The artwork was surprisingly faithful to how the characters are depicted in the books, I especially enjoyed Molly and Gulleed. The car mechanic has a great distinctive look with a crumpled face and red hair wit...

Gorgeous art! This is the kind of thing I want to see when I buy a graphic novel. Excellent realistic detail, vivid colours. Peter Grant is rendered especially nicely (v. handsome and properly fit), and none of the women are overly pinuppy. Beverley Brook is shown wearing something resembling a wetsuit when she’s in the river, instead of something more revealing—yay! While there’s nothing wrong with how Thomas Nightingale and Molly are depicted, I’m keeping the mental images of them I’ve develop...

I forgot to put this one up on Goodreads! I read it one or two weeks ago, after finally succumbing and buying all the Rivers of London comics for Kindle. I have seen the print version of one volume, and it did not look like much. I am an European Comics fangirl and this was not „up to my standards“ graphics and book wise. But I wanted the stories! And now I was much more satisfied with the first one than I had anticipated. The writing is that good, and the graphics serve their purpose. I got qui...

Ah, this was fun. What a neat idea/medium for presenting smaller-scale or side stories to the main arc of the novels. Casefics, as it were. London cop and apprentice wizard Peter Grant investigates a puzzling spate of lethal haunted cars, which turns out to have roots in several levels of past history. His boss Detective-Inspector Nightingale is great as always. Also includes some short-short extras, by way of treats. Full-value storytelling.The tale appears to fall after Broken Homes in the mai...

Definitely not as good as the novels but if youre a fanboy like me of this series, its always fun revisiting these characters.

2,25/5Blah 😒

This had promise, but wound up being rather dreary. The blurb on the front cover from io9 touts it as, "A perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter," which doesn't reflect well on either (Yes, I'm one of the few people in Western civilization over the age of 12 who hasn't read Harry Potter. Or seen any of the myriad CSI spinoffs. It's not anything snobby, just haven't happened to get to either yet.) This GN was adapted from a prose novel, which perhaps I might like better.Set in modern-day London, t...

After 1000 pages of collected Sandman manifested the comic as postmodern doorstop novel, this is back to its more usual mode, the comic as snack, to paraphrase one friend.Souffle-light fun with characters from the novels (including one new-to-me DC, Carey, who perhaps turned up after the third book, the one I was up to). The investigation of haunted cars felt at first like something from a U cert film, but got a little darker and more interesting later. Some details of illustrations, historical

It’s great to have another Peter Grant story, this time in graphic novel form. The art was quite amazing.

Inevitably, perhaps, this wasn't as good as the novels but it's still well worth a read if you're a fan of the series. The artwork's nice and the characters 'feel' right (even if they don't look how I imagined them... but it's hardly fair to expect the artist to read my mind so I'll let that one go).I certainly enjoyed it enough to read the next collection (which is just as well, seeing as I've already bought it).

The surprising thing about this graphic novel is that it fits into the Rivers of London series just as if it were another written piece. The events in this book are referred to in the novel 'The Hanging Tree' so to be completely up to date you need to read the regular novels and the graphic novels. I believe there are two more collected graphics so I will be looking out for those in the near future.A good story featuring the case of a 'possessed' BMW. Aareonovitch's London humor comes through in...