Welcome to the JungleBy Jim Butcher
Ballantine Books, 2008. [160] p. Graphic Novel
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files has been a popular series of urban fantasy/mystery novels and later a television series. With Welcome to the Jungle the series enters the domain of graphic novels. Harry Dresden is wizard and he combats all sorts of supernatural villains--demons, witches, vampires, etc. Dresden assists the Chicago Police Department with crimes involving the pararnormal. In this graphic novel a man is murdered at night in the Lincoln Park Zoo. Some want to pin it on the gorilla and close the case, but of course it's never that simple.
Although the plot is run-of-the-mill, the occasionally witty writing and the quality artwork make this a fairly engaging graphic novel. Originally issued as a series of comic books, the cover art from the series is included after the story as well as several pages of "concept art" with some notes that provide a little background on Harry Dresden, Lt. Karrin Murphy and Sgt. Ron Carmichael, both with the Chicago PD.
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