| The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jim Butcher, Ardian Syaf
Publisher: Del Rey/Dabel Brothers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (45 reviews)
Sales Rank: 733
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 6.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0345507460
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780345507464
ASIN: 0345507460
Publication Date: October 14, 2008
Release Date: October 14, 2008
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Product Description
When the supernatural world spins out of control, when the police can?t handle what goes bump in the night, when monsters come screaming out of nightmares and into the mean streets, there?s just one man to call: Harry Dresden, the only professional wizard in the Chicago phone book. A police consultant and private investigator, Dresden has to walk the dangerous line between the world of night and the light of day.
Now Harry Dresden is investigating a brutal mauling at the Lincoln Park Zoo that has left a security guard dead and many questions unanswered. As an investigator of the supernatural, he senses that there?s more to this case than a simple animal attack, and as Dresden searches for clues to figure out who is really behind the crime, he finds himself next on the victim list, and being hunted by creatures that won?t leave much more than a stain if they catch him.
Written exclusively for comics by Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle is a brand-new story that?s sure to enchant readers with a blend of gripping mystery and fantastic adventure.
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 good read December 1, 2008
this is a good story for airplane trips or something like that. a good book for the hour or so it takes too read. good artwork to
Good Graphic Novel as part of the series November 29, 2008
I enjoyed this installment of the series. I prefer traditional books to "comic books" but this one was well done and well illustrated. I will buy the next one when it comes out.
 Jungle Liscious November 25, 2008
For Dresden Files this is a requirement, for non-Dresden File fans, where the heck have you been? Great artwork, plenty of meat in the text, and it's all Harry Dresden--Chicago's yellow page advertizing wizard extraordinaire. It's great to see an art image that doesn't grate against the author's literary vision. Well, there is the monk's skull cap hair of the cop Carmichael, but the author's brilliant detail checkers didn't get a say until later in the process. Hey--he's a minor character anyway and we all know what happens eventually to the minor character, right? :-)
The story is a pre-quel to the books--so that's why it's a must for a Dresden Fan.
 Nothing new November 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a huge fan, but was disappointed by this first graphic novel. There was nothing new in this work. If you have read all the Dresden books, you will learn nothing about Harry you didn't already know. In fact, if you haven't read the books you will likely be confused on several points.
I agree that the Dresen series lends itself to the graphic novel genre, and could make a good run at it. Just give us new material. I understand this took place before the first novel, but there still could have been at least a small amount of information (maybe about his mother?) that we didn't have before.
Over all, it's worth buying, just didn't live up to my expectations
Excellent graphic novel! A great read. November 25, 2008
Welcome to the Jungle, based in the Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files universe, is one of the most enjoyable reads I've had in a long time. I'm one of those annyoing people who tends to read books based on very specific standards-- if it's unoriginal in general, I don't care, but if it's identical to other books in the series or books written by the same author, it'll drive me up a wall.
As such, I approached this book, with which I had little to compare it to (I'm not a big graphic novel reader, but I am a huge fan of the regular books), with an open mind and LOVED IT. There are very few things to be actively annoyed by-- the art is very good, and varys in tone well (one thing I have noticed in comic books as a whole is that the tone of the art tends to remain the same throughout the book). The story is, well. It was written by Butcher, and as anyone who's given his books a go will know, that means fantastic.
Said plot is set before Storm Front, the first book in the Dresden Files books. It features Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, in his role as the consultant Karrin Murphy (head of CPD's Special Investigations unit) calls when things get weird, and things are definately weird. A man if found mauled to death near the gorilla enclosure, and the beast is blamed. However, some things just don't click, and so Harry sets off in his coat to find the truth. You'll have to read the book to find out what happens, and doing that is something I highly recommend. The one thing about this book that set me off a little was in 4 instances, the artist reuses panels-- I don't know if thats an industry standard or what, but it just rubbed me wrong. Anyway, if you don't have a rabid hatred of graphic novels, this is something you should definately consider reading.
As a side not to all the whiners who gave this book 1 star revues because you "didn't know it was a comic book": a, you should read the description, b, you should at least give it a shot before sending it back, c, do a forum post or something so people who actually know what the product is don't get a misrepresentation from the ratings, and d, read the description, morons! (did I mention that already?)
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