Collected volume 2 · Spoiler-light
Night Witch
A spoiler-light guide to Night Witch, volume 2 of the Rivers of London collected graphic novels.
The edition desk
- Writers
- Ben Aaronovitch; Andrew Cartmel
- Artists
- Lee Sullivan
- Colourist
- Not named in the linked collected-edition record
- Letterer
- Not named in the linked collected-edition record
- Collected issues
- 1–5
- Collection date (publisher/distributor territory)
- 4 November 2016
- Paperback ISBN
- 9781785852930
Creator listings can omit production roles. We identify a colourist only where the publisher's collected record supplies the name; lettering needs an issue-level credit check. Titan collection record (opens in a new tab)↗
Where it fits
After Foxglove Summer. Compare the complete reading order →
Spoiler-light outline
The second collected volume follows the Folly into a case touched by Russian magic and the city's wider supernatural connections. Its title promises a figure with a history beyond Peter's immediate beat, but this introduction leaves the identity and outcome for the pages themselves. It is a short visual investigation placed after Foxglove Summer in this guide's integrated order, with the unfamiliar magical thread encountered through working police eyes.
Why it’s worth reading
What makes this volume appealing is the contrast between a tightly organised case file and the larger, older stories its witnesses seem to carry. A comic can hold those registers in the same spread: a person in a present-day room beside a visual suggestion of another tradition. That does useful work for a series whose magic has always belonged to particular communities and places, not merely to a list of powers. Peter's part of the investigation grounds the book in questions and consequences. The art offers a way to feel an encounter before the dialogue has classified it. I would keep this volume in sequence because its relationships have more weight after the surrounding prose cases; the title alone is no reason to jump ahead. It is also a reminder that the comic branch can widen the world without asking every episode to become a main-arc revelation. Compare its handling of an unfamiliar practitioner with the novels' habit of making Peter learn the terms as he investigates. The collected paperback is a coherent case in its own right, with the issue run gathered under one cover.
Case notes · open after reading
After finishing, look again at how the artwork directs your attention before a character names a clue. Consider which relationships carry into later cases. This discussion is deliberately limited here; the collection itself should supply its answers.