I loved this graphic novel! So I have been on a bit of a comic book kick lately and when I saw this I had to pick it up. Now I have seen some mixed reviews on this and wasn't sure what to think at first, but the more I got into it the more I liked it. This is a comic retelling of Jim Butcher's first book in the Dresden files series Storm Front, so don't think you are going to get anything new if you have already read the book. It is almost exactly like the book it is based off, so you will know

Good-not-great, but quite entertaining to read all the way through. At moments cringeworthy (there's something a little neckbeardy about the book), but the core of it was a good time. I enjoyed this and will read another.

Harry Dresden: The only openly practicing wizard in ChicagoIf you've read the book of the same name, Storm Front, you pretty much know what this is about. Here is my summary of the full-blown novel:"Harry Dresden is the only practicing wizard in the Yellow Pages and often works with the police on their “paranormal” crimes. One day, Lieutenant Murphy calls him up and presents him with a crime scene: two dead bodies, killed in a most brutal and obviously unnatural method, which some are trying to

This book was recommended to me by a bookseller. A real person, in a real bookshop, during a face to face conversation. I said I was loving Ben Aaronovitch’s books, which mix magic and crime in London, and the bookseller said I might enjoy Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files. And she was right! Storm Front took me a while to get into, because it’s quite flippant and hardboiled, but that’s a reflection of the crime genre it’s bouncing off. I took longer to warm to the crime element of the story than the

This is the first part of the graphic novel adaptation of Jim Butcher’s first book. Fun to read and see how the artist and Jim worked to bring his characters to life. Gave new insight on some favorite characters like Susan Rodriguez, Morgan, and John Marcone. For sure helps with casting who I think would play some of these roles. Good pacing and nothing too grim even though there is violence in this book. Even includes a small prequel story.

I read this graphic novel version, without having read any of the novels yet, because when I requested the first book from my library, they sent me this by accident. So... I was not that impressed. 2 1/2 stars, really. Perhaps if I hadn't read this on the same night as I read Ben Aaronovitch's graphic novel, Night Witch, I may have enjoyed it more. To be fair, the art was vibrant, often gory, if you like that. (I liked the art in Night Witch better, as well as the humor.) There were many, ahem,

STORM FRONT is the first in the lengthy Harry Dresden series. This review reflects my love of all the Dresden Files Books.I discovered The Dresden Files after I fell in love with the T.V show (which got booted after only one amazing season!) With some book series there's always one or two of the books that I don't like or enjoy less than all the others, but The Dresden Files always satisfies me with every book.The excitement revolves around Harry Dresden, private investigator and wizard, and his...

See Volume 2 for review on Storm Front (graphic novel).

Great, as expected. Now off to Vol. 2.

A pretty good adaptation but nothing super special. It's clearly hard for the artist to go along with drawing Harry as 6'9" and Murphy as 5'0". And Harry is drawn way too muscular. But otherwise no real complaints. Toot-Toot was pretty good as was Susan Rodriguez. And Bianca. Gentleman Johnny Marcone could have been better. I'm not all that impressed with Morgan but Murphy could have been a bit better. Art in general though was pretty good and captured Harry's use of magic pretty well. 3.5 of 5....

Great things about this book:1. Jim Butcher’s intro 2. The rendition of Harry3. Very true to the bookNot-so-great things about this book:1. It does not cover the whole first book2. Karen does not look at all like she is described in the book3. The short story at the end and the cover art are by different artist and are not as good Overall, pretty good. Worth a read if you’re a fan.

Can't NOT love Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden.

A pretty faithful translation of the novel. I definitely suggest reading the novel first but Syaf does a good job of visually translating the story. This is early in his career before he defined his style but it's still pretty good. It's cool to see Jim Butcher's fantastic world building come to life.

Well I love the shit out of the original book and the audiobook; so it only makes sense that I would love this as well! Some of the characters are not how I imagined (as it always is in movies and pictures), but it was no biggie. I also thought the storytelling pace was perfect and didn't leave anything out; it was very faithful to the book! Overall a great adaptation and I definitely need to get the rest in this series so I can see how it progresses. Eventually I'll get around to watching the s...

Well...it's Dresden and that guarantees an enjoyable read pretty much. If you've read Storm Front then you have the story here. Well, this is the first half of the story. The novel itself is better (I suppose I should say of course here). I did like the look we got at the Red Court Vamp but than I already had a picture in my mind.If you like graphic novels I think you'll enjoy these. The art is good, the action is portrayed in a good way with confusion in following it. The drawings are clean and...

I was looking for "Storm Front" - the novel, at the local library, but they only had this graphic novel version of it. Although I'm not able to compare it to the book, I really liked it; I liked the art, and the noir feel, and found the characters more than intriguing. I thought it ends a bit too abruptly - I was tempted to take a star away for that - but obviously this is just the first episode... and I enjoyed very much the additional short story.

One might think, why read a graphic novel version of a prose novel? I was one of those who asked that question. I am eating my words now. I can see why. While I tend to visualize the books I read as movies playing in my head in full color, it's still a pleasure to see how the author's imagery is brought to life as they work with the graphic novel artists and writers. Harry doesn't quite look like my version in my head, but it's awesome to see how Butcher himself visualizes the character. Harry'...

I was lucky enough to get a hold of the second graphic novel in this series very quickly. I am still beating myself up a bit for not reading Jim Butcher novels before this. The mistake though, and the discovery of the graphic novels, I think will make my experience with the novels better and I will have a better understanding of the characters after this. Here is a piece from the Intro to the G.N. by Jim Butcher, he has better words to describe the way I feel about this: ”It’s my story, adapted

Great. Now I desperately want ALL the published novels in graphic novel format as well! Storm Front is definitely the weakest of the whole series by a wide margin, and if that can come so beautifully and brilliantly in visual artform, goddamn what of something as epic as Death Masks or Dead Beat or Turncoat or (OMG!) Changes, Cold Days, Skin Game, and... gulp, BATTLE GROUND?! Mindgasm.This completely faithful adaptation of the very first Dresden book Storm Front is a must read for anyone who's a...

It's just so lovely to return to the Dresden Files universe and world of Harry after a long time, I wanted to read the book before reading the graphic novel adaptation. Jim B is right when he says that he always envisioned Harry's adventures as comic books and it works wonderfully well, with books we have to imagine everything, and with TV series it can easily get costly to get the effects just right, or else they can look cheesy and absurd rather than terrifying. I can't wait to get to the seco...