Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Ghoul Goblin HC Author: Visit Amazon's Jim Butcher Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1606904388 | Format: PDF
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Ghoul Goblin HC Description
- Series: Dresden Files (Book 1)
- Hardcover: 152 pages
- Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment; First Edition edition (November 26, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1606904388
- ISBN-13: 978-1606904381
- Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
First things first - This 162 page hardcover collects all six issues of the original Harry Dresden story "Ghoul Goblin". It also includes an original series summary, sketches and script to pencil story board sketches. There are individual comics that run about 30 pages that are available from third party sellers, but this is the only collection. There are some reviews on this site that refer to the first comic book, and I suspect that when that comic became unavailable and this hardcover was announced those old reviews were incorrectly transferred to the site. That happens more often than one would like.
So, that said, how do we feel about this collection of the entire six comic book story? Well, I like Butcher's Harry Dresden, and I particularly like the way the Dresden stories are presented in Butcher's published fiction. Butcher writes a good action sequence, but I especially admire the fashion in which Dresden communicates with and converses with other entities, especially powerful magical and spiritual entities whom he must placate and from whom he seeks assitance. Dresden is very formal and elegant in those scenes and the writing is well above the average. Dresden is not just a slam/bam actioner.
The comics that make up this collection, which becomes, basically, a graphic novel, offer glimpses and suggestions of that style and substance, with the added virtue of generally expressive and reasonably immersive drawings. The story has a lot of twists and turns and surprises, with revelations sprinkled along the trail instead of all saved up for the end. Several characters besides Dresden are developed well, and the tale is logical and internally consistent. Dresden can be a little angsty, but that is part of his appeal, (aren't most superheroes tormented in some way?
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