Above is the eye-catching cover for the third issue in Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel‘s ongoing RIVERS OF LONDON: WATER WEED comic series. Due to be published by Titan Comics on August 15th, here’s the synopsis…

Wizarding cop Peter faces a drug-smuggling queenpin in a whole new story from Ben Aaronovitch, set in the best-selling novel series Rivers of London!

Spring Breakers meets Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels on the banks of the Thames!

Wizarding cop Peter Grant and river spirit Beverley are drawn into a sordid cannabis-smuggling operation, controlled by London’s new queenpin of crime – the brutal and beautiful Hoodette! Can they overcome corruption, or will they be fatally entangled in the weed?

Series art is by Lee Sullivan, and colours by Luis Guerrero.

The comic series is set in the same universe as Ben’s Peter Grant series of urban fantasy novels and novellas, published by Gollancz (UK), Del Rey and DAW Books (US), and widely in translation. Andrew is also the author of the Vinyl Detective series, published by Titan Books.