An epic start to the City Watch collection from Pratchett's Discworld series! There's something rather comforting about the Night Watch characters, something quite familiar, an easy understanding towards them. Being a member of The Night Watch in Ankh Morpork is not as glamorous a job as it used to be, maybe that's why it only currently has 3 members, patrolling the streets and dealing with staggering Crime levels. However, The Watch will soon have another member by the name of Carrot, a rather odd and determined fellow with questionable heritage. It's just as well, because there's been talk of Dragons burning people to a crisp in the streets, and The Night Watch needs all the help it can get... Full of belly laughs and the usual gritty Pratchett fun!

This is such a great book and I hope the proposed TV series based on the Discworld Watch (their police force, for want of a better description) goes ahead. This is fun, silly, bitingly satirical and all rather wonderful. Terry Pratchett is a legend. He'll be missed.

I have said before that the Discworld Comics are usually (in my opinion) found wanting for one minor reason or another. Here I am proved wrong. This is an extremely faithful and enjoyable adaption with beautiful and highly suitable artwork, plenty of clear, concise dialogue (so you're never left wondering what's going on) and, most inportantly of all, that very special 'Discworld Feel'. As I said above, the artwork is just beautiful. Vibrant colour and style, with characters that will intergrate themselves into your imagination to be recalled when you next read about them in a non graphic format. There is a fair amount of dialogue but not too much. The only thing I would complain about here would be the occasional misuse of punctuation and a couple of extra 'MEANWHILE's (ect...) wouldn't have gone a miss as the story moved about. But I'm really just nit-picking when I say that. There was, as there will surely always be, one thing wrong: Why was Carrots 'mother' wearing a dress? This is pre Feet Of Clay so the femininity of Dwarves has not yet been acknowledged, least of all in Uberwald. But aside from that this is a remarkable graphic novel, wonderfully adapted from an exellent book and losing none of the witty charm of the origional. Very Highly Reccomended.

The story is okay it is not my favourites I prefer the death series/ witch series however a verygood start to the city watch series

This book introduces the characters of the city watch series This book also takes the Mickey out of racism Terry Pratchett style