{"id":51128,"date":"2015-05-15T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/rivers-of-london-the-comic-book.html"},"modified":"2015-05-15T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:37:51","slug":"rivers-of-london-the-comic-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/rivers-of-london-the-comic-book.html","title":{"rendered":"Rivers of London: the Comic Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Peter Grant \/ Folly comic co-written by Ben Aaronovitch? New material falling into continuity?  Sure, I&#39;m game. <\/p>\n<p>(If you enjoy urban fantasy and you haven&#39;t ready any of the <i>Rivers of London<\/i> series, you have been missing out on a treat.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Bounding Into Comics<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Man-Eating BMWs! How are you supposed to stop them?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2015\/05\/15\/titan-comics-debuts-rivers-of-london-comic-book-trailer'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/47wPj2V06h5bMdrMwYeN0FI7vqRyZPbW0EEM64-Oja_0wd6UJQ_aumOFg9E33aOlszXzmvuYn2ZO-qJYJJ8UwTnLuiViTWjN11wlwyVNR-Xx9YDKX1mOZwpDFPnwGD9vO9rN9Dd3aOB7Sx_L-F7jnfqDdTSy2xXe1ijRJA=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2015\/05\/15\/titan-comics-debuts-rivers-of-london-comic-book-trailer'>Titan Comics Debuts Rivers of London Comic Book Trailer | Bounding Into Comics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/EmpGzWiCUBj'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Peter Grant \/ Folly comic co-written by Ben Aaronovitch? New material falling into continuity? Sure, I&#39;m game. (If you enjoy urban fantasy and you haven&#39;t ready any of the Rivers of London series, you have been missing out on a treat.) Originally shared by +Bounding Into Comics: Man-Eating BMWs! How are you supposed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/rivers-of-london-the-comic-book.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rivers of London: the Comic Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131514,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/13\/digital-vs-paper-comics.html","url_meta":{"origin":51128,"position":0},"title":"Digital vs Paper Comics","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Sep-16 12:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"For folk who are looking for a social experience at the Local Comic Book Store, I can certainly see going for the paper style of comics. I'm much less sanguine about paper comics as an investment (it sounds great until you try to sell something).For myself, I can say that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131424,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/04\/comic-book-fonts.html","url_meta":{"origin":51128,"position":1},"title":"Comic book fonts","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 4-Sep-16 9:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While there's something I miss about the Good Old Days of hand-lettered comics (Tom Orzechowski was always one of my favorites), the richness of contemporary comics lettering through computerized fonts makes the lettering a part of the visual storytelling (Thor's more ornate word balloons being a current example). 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