Tag: Andrew Cartmel

Rivers of London: Night Witch

Rivers of London: Night Witch

by Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel; ill. Lee Sullivan (Titan Comics, 2016)

Book cover: “Rivers of London: Night Witch” by Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel; ill. Lee Sullivan (Titan Comics, 2016)

The graphic novel format seems tailor-made for Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, Night Witch offering commensurate strangeness but a punchier delivery than the novels (albeit in this case with glossy, night-for-day art and a manufactured plot complexity rendered damp-squibbish by the resolution).

Doctor Who: Animal

Doctor Who: Animal

by Andrew Cartmel (Big Finish, 2011)

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As Cartmel the script editor, so Cartmel the writer: an eye for the big picture; blithe on particulars. Funky musical transitions cannot enliven this ponderous, time-wasting run-around. Meantimes, Sylvester McCoy retreats into affability mode, presumably to medicate against banal and ham-fisted dialogue.

 

 

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