I'm very fond of the Dresden Files books - don't bother with the short lived TV series. They'll never be high literature but they are amusing magical detective pulp fiction and I adore the characters.

Comics wise you could do far worse than Huntress: Year One. The art is pretty and the story is solid, as is the writing. I still get shivers when I read some parts, despite the fact that I've read it about 5 times in the last year.