title: The Dresden Files: Storm Front (Jim Butcher's Dresden Files) (A graphic novel)
author: Mark Powers
description: Beginning an unusually successful adaptation, this volume covers the first part of the book that introduced Harry Dresden, a modern wizard who's set up shop in downtown Chicago. Unlike <i>Hellblazer</i>'sJohn Constantine, Dresden is unambiguously heroic, cooperating with the police to solve gruesome magical murderers while also working solo as a supernatural PI. The two cases he undertakes here don't seem related, but they both send Dresden out into the mean streets and eldritch corners of the modern world. More to the point, they let Butcher (and adapter Powers) set up a rich, quirky universe for Dresden to explore, as when he interviews a spiteful vampire madam or fights a trench coatclad demonic assassin. Powers and artist Sayaf do a very nice job of working a lot of textconversations and Harry's reflectionsinto lively-looking pages. The action is well handled, too, especially when the climactic battle with the demon moves from inside Harry's apartment to outdoors during a thunderstorm. The Dresden novels are already <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers, and this comic looks like another winner. <i>(June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  ALSO BY JIM BUTCHER
  
  
  
  
  
  THE DRESDEN FILES
  
  
  
  
  
  STORM FRONT
  
  
  FOOL MOON
  
  
  GRAVE PERIL
  
  
  SUMMER KNIGHT
  
  
  DEATH MASKS
  
  
  BLOOD RITES
  
  
  DEAD BEAT
  
  
  PROVEN GUILTY
  
  
  WHITE NIGHT
  
  
  SMALL FAVOR
  
  
  TURN COAT
  
  
  CHANGES
  
  
  GHOST STORY
  
  
  COLD DAYS
  
  
  SIDE JOBS (Anthology)
  
  
  
  
  
  THE CODEX ALERA
  
  
  
  
  
  FURIES OF CALDERON
  
  
  ACADEM’S FURY
  
  
  CURSOR’S FURY
  
  
  CAPTAIN’S FURY
  
  
  PRINCEPS’ FURY
  
  
  FIRST LORD’S FURY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **J IM BUTCHER**
  
  
  SKIN GAME
  
  
  A NOVEL OF THE DRESDEN FILES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # ROC
  
  
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