Stumptown, Vol. 1: The Case of the Girl Who Took Her Shampoo by Greg RuckaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Almost seven years after this series of graphic novels was adapted into a TV series on ABC (with the pilot episode being loosely adapted from this first case), I've finally found all of the books at the libraries in Washington County outside Portland. And reading these books again, it reminds me of just how salty I still am that ABC went and canceled the series after initially planning to renew it for a second season, only for the pandemic to throw a wrench in things...but they kept several other shows on air, didn't they? Including The Rookie which went ahead to become a whole franchise with at least two spinoffs and counting to date, and yet Stumptown, an imaginative and fertile spin on the genre set in Portland, couldn't get that renewal? Well, I'm living in Oregon now and appreciating this series and its characters more than ever, and hoping to see some of my own mystery work get adapted to film and/or TV for all the salty Stumptown fans like myself.
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