![]() The clever title refers to the discovery of haunted cars, enabling artist Lee Sullivan to indulge in some renditions of popular present day models and a vintage Bentley that should have enthusiasts purring with pleasure. Could spectacles be made from a windscreen through which 1929 appears? It might be deliberate, intending to focus interest on the novels, but it’s distracting, raising unnecessary questions in a captivating plot that throws out plenty of interesting asides. It leaves readers wondering just how Grant blew up an entire building, and who Molly is. The introductory chapter presents Grant and his world well to anyone picking this up without knowing those novels, but it references them awkwardly, applying the presumption of familiarity. Oh yes, and although it’s not clarified in Body Work, it helps to know he’s an apprentice wizard via his police employment.īen Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London novels featuring Grant are extremely popular, but instead of adapting them to comics he’s opted to create new stories, collaborating with Andrew Cartmel, himself a novelist of note, but Body Work doesn’t quite have the smoothness of the Grant novels. ![]() For starters his remit is the supernatural, which makes him an isolated figure of suspicion among his colleagues, and then he’s able to call on the daughter of the Goddess of the River Thames for help. ![]() Peter Grant is no ordinary police detective. ![]()
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