{"id":11776,"date":"2019-03-17T16:28:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=11776"},"modified":"2024-01-22T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:59:09","slug":"rivers-of-london-volume-7-action-at-a-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11776","title":{"rendered":"Rivers of London Volume 7: Action at a Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/comics\/Rivers_of_London.php\">Rivers of London<\/a> Vol. 7: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2FbLZtF\">Action at a Distance<\/a><\/em> (2018) Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Brian Williamson <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2FbLZtF\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Action-at-a-Distance.jpg?resize=197%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Action-at-a-Distance.jpg?w=360&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Action-at-a-Distance.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>Set in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>When these comics first started, I think that Ben Aaronovitch had a lot of extra material he couldn&#8217;t fit in the books.<\/p>\n<p>I think that he&#8217;s probably used up that material, because these last several comics have been&#8211;at best&#8211;lackluster.<\/p>\n<p>Here I thought we&#8217;d been getting some of Nightingale&#8217;s backstory, but it&#8217;s just a single story that doesn&#8217;t really tell us much of anything about Nightingale.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Titan Comics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers of London Vol. 7: Action at a Distance (2018) Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Brian Williamson Set in 2016. When these comics first started, I think that Ben Aaronovitch had a lot of extra material he couldn&#8217;t fit in the books. I think that he&#8217;s probably used up that material, because these last several comics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[30,9,8,291,42,34],"tags":[57,58],"class_list":["post-11776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british","category-graphic-novels","category-mystery","category-paper","category-police","category-urban-fantasy","tag-ben-aaronovitch","tag-rivers-of-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-33W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9119,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9119","url_meta":{"origin":11776,"position":0},"title":"Rivers of London: Detective Stories #4.1","author":"Michelle","date":"June 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Rivers of London: Detective Stories #4.1 (2017) Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan, Luis Guerrero, Mack Chater I am... confused by this. 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