Cops And Comix by Rhys Ford

Cops And Comix by Rhys Ford
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Short story (38 pages)
Other: M/M, Anal Play
Rating: 3.5 stars
Reviewed by Fern

A Murder and Mayhem Short

It’s all fun and games until someone leaves a dead body on the floor.
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Life for comic book store owner Alex Martin usually runs to the mundane. Sure, he has a regular influx of geeks and freaks, but for the most part, it’s a familiar weird. That all changes when he opens up Planet X Comics one morning and finds a corpse in the middle of his shop.

When Detective James Castillo is called in to investigate, Alex is torn between wanting to climb the man like a tree and giving him a wide berth. Luckily for Alex, the handsome detective is just as interested in him—as a suspect in the murder.

Alex was understandably upset when he returned to his comic book store only to find a dead body lying in the middle of the floor. Detective James Castillo might be a police officer, but he’s also the sort of deliciously off-limits type of man Alex usually lusts after from afar and never approaches. Can the two men figure out their attraction to each other – and what happened to the dead man in the comic book store?

I found this to be a fun and lighthearted short story. Alex and James are interesting and good characters that I liked. The plotline is a little crazy (in a good sense) and my only real complaint is that the vast majority of the police work and solving the crime was conducted completely off-screen. I understand that the author had a limited amount of space in the short length of this story and I sympathise with the fact the relationship building between Alex and James needed to take higher priority than solving the crime. But I have to be honest, I felt rather short-changed that we jumped from one scene where James and Alex are taking witness statements and discussing the dead body and the next scene is James explaining to Alex how he’s solved the crime and everything is all laid out. There was no chance for me as a reader to discover who the dead person was, to think or listen about motives etc – we literally jumped from discovering the body to being told how and why he was murdered. It made most of that aspect of the plot feel very much like a red herring or afterthought.

The romance between Alex and James, thankfully, was not given short shrift though. I enjoyed watching the two men learn about each other and hunger for each other (their first official date was funny and I actually laughed aloud reading it). The sex was hot and while it was a brief scene this is a very short story and I could totally forgive the quickness of it when so many other things were happening at the same time.

Fun and light this is a great short story. While it’s part of a series I personally feel that it stands completely alone – the characters are all independent and there’s no reference of previous stories. I enjoyed the small hints of geekiness and comic-book fandoms and felt both Alex and James’ characters were vibrant and interesting. With a bit of sex, a dash of laughter and the plot of a dead body to brighten things up this was a lovely story I thoroughly enjoyed.