Re: The Rivers of London Series

On 8/22/24 06:15, BillGill wrote:

On 8/21/2024 1:50 PM, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

On 21 Aug 2024 at 17:54:30 BST, "Robert Woodward" <robertaw@drizzle.com>
wrote:
>

More to the point, in the most recent graphic novel, _Stray Cat Blues_,
Abigail was using magic in issue 4 (just out today, Aug 21st, in the
USA).

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I'd not bothered to track the comics down, as one I checked early on
didn't have Ben Aaronovitch as the author. Checking the wiki now, they
all appear to so I don't know what happened there - I blame Amazon
metadata failure.
>
Well, now I have to go lose some money. I guess they're fully canon with
the books?
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     Cheers - Jaimie
>

First off:  I haven't read many comic books since I grew up,
something like 60 years ago.  And I don't care for them.  I
did read a lot of them when I was young.  Partly because that
was what we had where we lived.
 That being said, I tried one of the Rivers of London
comic books, and didn't care for it.  I have tried to read
it 2 or 3 times, and just can't get into it.  Not having
read them does mean that I don't get some of the comments
that are scattered through the books.
 Bill
 

Well Bill Gill i have been a fan of comic books most of my life
startng with Puck the Comic Weekly as soon as I could sit up and look
at the Sunday Examiner so about 1940 or 1941. From the Comic Weekly
in color to the daily strips I loved them all.  Well I did not understand some of them but if the strip was there I read it.
In the late 1960s I got into the Underground comix, and in the late
1990s Anime (on PBS before Dr.Who) from KCBS then into Manga aka
Japanese comics.  I still am a comic fan but these days who would
have believed it in 1940-1960 that a great city Library would have
sections for Graphic Novels and manga!  I would not have thought
it possible and am still amazed at the available wonders of the
San Francisco Public Library System but mostly the Main branch
dowhhill from my 'hood.
Last week at SFPL-Main i found the following.
Rivers of London. Here be dragons / written by James Swallow ; script
edited by Andrew Cartmel ; created by Ben Aaronovitch.
I vastly prefer the textual novels of this series. If I see the rest of the graphic novels in this long series at the SFPL-Main I will likely pick them up to read due to my voracity. I cannot quite put my finger on why I do not like this graphic novel but indeed that is the case. It seems at times that I had read this before which I put down to the familiarity with the written rather than the drawn work. It seems
to be well executed with color somewhat subdued and over all dark tones. Nothing wrong with the characters though the elven characters are not
to my personal taste but the artist has a rather different conception of elves and so did the creator.
Fan and non-fan concur, it seems that ROL:HBD lacks something in
the drawn version.
Every good idea cannot be a total winner, not with everyone.
Otherwise you guys would be bubbling over about the anime "Planetes"
which is pretty hard science about characters who pick up trash from
orbit.  I will look for my notes. But they may not be more extensive
than that.
bliss
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