{"id":2608,"date":"2008-11-25T05:05:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2008-12-12T20:20:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T20:20:49","slug":"the-dresden-files-welcome-to-the-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/11\/25\/the-dresden-files-welcome-to-the-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2609\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dresden-files-welcome-to-the-jungle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2609\" title=\"dresden-files-welcome-to-the-jungle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dresden-files-welcome-to-the-jungle-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome to the Jungle\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dresden-files-welcome-to-the-jungle-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dresden-files-welcome-to-the-jungle.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome to the Jungle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By <strong>Jim Butcher<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Ardian Syaf<\/strong> (Titan Books\/Dabel Brothers Publishing)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-84856-208-0<\/p>\n<p>Jim Butcher is a best-selling novelist and comics fan whose tales of a wizard-for-hire on the mean streets of modern Chicago have won him legions of fans, and even spawned a short-lived but excellent TV series.<\/p>\n<p>In this tale set just before the first novel, <strong>Storm Front<\/strong>, Harry Dresden is an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unconventional\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Private Eye who occasionally consults for the Chicago Police Department&#8217;s Special Investigations Unit, walking a fine line as a specialist fighting supernatural menaces whilst trying to keep all things mystical a secret from the unsuspecting public.<\/p>\n<p>When a Zoo keeper is torn to shreds he uncovers a plot by an ancient horror that will have catastrophic repercussions for frail humanity\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Exceedingly readable, the premise may not be fresh to fantasy fans but the characters and dialogue are top-rate and the art from Ardian Syaf and inkers Nick Nix, Joe Pimentel, David Rivera and Rick Ketcham is understated and highly effective.<\/p>\n<p>This lush hardcover comes with a cover gallery, production sketches plus character studies and profiles. As well as being a great piece of comics storytelling, this book will hopefully entice a few more hold-outs into our magical world of pictures and words. A potential seasonal gift for your favourite comics-resister, perhaps..?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1997, 1998 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim Butcher &amp; Ardian Syaf (Titan Books\/Dabel Brothers Publishing) ISBN: 978-1-84856-208-0 Jim Butcher is a best-selling novelist and comics fan whose tales of a wizard-for-hire on the mean streets of modern Chicago have won him legions of fans, and even spawned a short-lived but excellent TV series. In this tale set just before the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/11\/25\/the-dresden-files-welcome-to-the-jungle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-G4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}