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I was gobsmacked by the beautiful illustration on the cover the first time I saw this. The colour is just amazing.

Story wise, it’s quite straightforward. But I do like Chelsea and Olympia making appearance, and the graphics are top quality as usual.

Ich mag die Comics einfach. Dieser war wieder sehr toll. Ich mochte die Story und den Zeichenstil ja sowieso. Die Locations waren sehr cool. Peters Humor kommt wieder sehr gut zur Geltung. Nur die Sexszene hätte nicht sein müssen...

This mystery centers around some magical marijuana. The most interesting part of the story was how it was made. Some of the demi monde make an appearance as well as the rivers but Peter solves the case in the end but the story lacks some of the charm from earlier stories. As usual the one page short stories in each issue are great.

In brief: There’s a new strain of marijuana in London, and magic’s involved! Sixth in a series, tie-in to a novel series.

Thoughts: My opinions of these comics fluctuate wildly between really enjoying one volume and being kind of lukewarm about the next. This is, unfortunately, one of the lukewarm ones for me.

I liked Peter’s narration and revisiting some of the secondary characters, and it’s another interesting use of the world-building, but the plot seemed a bit thin to me, and a bit convoluted. I found the villainess especially over-complicated, like there was an extra twist or two to her scheme and personality to fill out space or make it trickier for Peter and Nightingale to track her down. Or maybe, on a reread where I force myself to read slower, I’d “get” her. I dunno.

There are elements I hope come back, though, either in the comics or crossing back into the novels. A witness, for one thing. The henchmen, for another. The story-specific magic, for a third. (That was cool and begs some questions I want answered.) But overall, this felt like a pretty standard case for Peter: identify a crime, ask questions till you have a suspect, run into a few obstacles, solve the thing. There’s nothing that really mixes things up, in terms of world or narration, and that kind of disappointed me. I like when that happens, y’know?

5/10

To bear in mind: Canon-typical violence. May contain drugs. :)

Water Weed is a standalone in the Peter Grant series. The graphic novels are good because they show a visual side of the Folly and the characters involved that help you fill in your mental model when reading the novels. Water Weed is no different.

A standalone piece about a crossover with the mundane drug trade and some magic. The water Weed is distributed by boat, coming to Peter's attention because Beverley's younger siblings have extorted some from the hapless delivery boys on their boat in the Thames.

There's an interesting light on the methods used to hide tracks, and also on the effects of werelights on plants. It also breaks a few stereotypes and sets up a previous character and a new one for yet another story.

Definitely worth reading Water Weed if you are a fan of the Peter Grant stories.

I don't think that I've got much comment to make on the 6th Rivers of London graphic novel. This one concerns a cannabis operation, one that has worrying vestigia attached to the final product. It's practically a Peter one-hander; Nightingale is in some scenes, but doesn't do much, Beverley and her two younger sisters get a bit more screen time, but poor Molly gets practically nothing, and Guleed doesn't appear at all.

The art is consistent, and has been since the start of the graphic novel series. This is the first one that I've seen with Aaronovitch credited only as 'creator' while [a: Andrew Cartmel|6836|Andrew Cartmel|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1345464689p2/6836.jpg] is the sole writer. I don't think it made a difference, I always find Peter's narrative voice somewhat muted in the graphic novels anyway.

So a fun, if short, read that's enjoyable but doesn't offer any more insight into the characters.