Okay, I admit it. I ordered a copy of Rivers Of London: Volume 1: Body Work signed by Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel before I blogged about it. There’s also the most recent Volume, 12, Stray Cat Blues and that’s signed too!
Good news, I don’t seem to have the last copy, and Forbidden Planet has more of volume one from Titan Comics.
Peter Grant, having become the first English apprentice wizard in fifty years, must immediately deal with two different but ultimately inter-related cases. In one he must find what is possessing ordinary people and turning them into vicious killers, and in the second he must broker a peace between the two warring gods of the River Thames.
The news, if you missed it, is that Pure Fiction and Sky Studios are working up the series for TV. It’s been there before and got lost, but this drama is already slated for Sky TV, and there are rumours that Deadline will pick it up in the States.
The other news, much older, is that there’s a Chaosium-made Rivers of London TTRPG in which Ben Aaronovitch plays a big part in the crafting. That’s been out since last year.
Body Work features haunted cars, a nice scarf and a wooden bench with a dark past. It’s not a new book, published first a million years ago, back in 2016 but it’s a chunky one at 130 pages.
In contrast, Stray Cat Blues is the latest volume and features the Faceless Man.
Old frenemies become allies in the latest Rivers of London adventure when a mysterious cat-woman comes to The Folly looking for help to free her sisters from a notorious chimera brothel run by London gangster Monty and his sinister magically endowed mother, Mrs. Napier. Now, Romeo, together with Abigail, Kitty Butchart aka Hoodette, Reynard Fossman, and Gina Penlaw must rescue the three imprisoned women before the Faceless Man can get his hands on them…
Where does “Body Work” fit in the Rivers of London timeline?
Forbidden Planet has this nice timeline/river of time to show us that Body Work is early on, set just after Broken Homes.
The graphic is recent enough to have Stray Cat Blues at the end. The volume was published this October, is a little shorter than the first collection, and hits 112 pages.
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