First book of the new year!
Book #1
Book Title: Welcome to the Jungle
Author: Jim Butcher
Category: fiction; fantasy; graphic novel
# of pages: 160
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: B+
Short description/summary of the book: (taken from amazon.com):Author Butcher is the creator of the Dresden Files series of novels (the basis for the short-lived Sci-Fi channel series), and this fun graphic novel is the prequel to his first Dresden book, Storm Front. Blurring the lines between fantasy and noir, Dresden is a scrappy, rough-and-tumble consulting professional wizard who's often hired by the Chicago police to work on those crimes that enter the supernatural. Given only 24 hours to solve an inexplicable and gruesome murder at the zoo, Dresden has to deal with unhelpful zoologists and police, a helpful but confused potential love interest, packs of demonically possessed animals and several deadly enchanters along the way, eventually uncovering a plot by one of mankind's great ancient foes. If the story is not particularly deep, it's breathlessly paced, with plenty of quirks and details (one of Dresden's closest friends and allies is an ancient talking skull), and a compelling page-turner. Syaf's art is always effective, but sometimes ping-pongs between generic action-comic combat poses and more personal and evocative horror art. This book is a decent start to a new medium for the series and may pique the interest of those unfamiliar with Dresden and Butcher.
My Thoughts: I really liked this book but my only complaint is that it was too short and didn't go into a lot of detail because of its length. The artwork is amazing and highly detailed. I recommend this book to fans of The Dresden Files series and/or people who have not yet started the series.
Books read this year: 1/50.
Pages read this year: 160/15000
Next read(s): I am still reading Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.