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[maribou]

Queen and Country: Declassified, by Greg Rucka et al
I was a bit confused at the comic book store on Saturday (mostly because I hadn't eaten and it was noon-thirty already) and I couldn't figure out which was the real first volume of the Queen and Country series, so I bought both this and a three-in-one manga-sized volume... I'm still a bit confused, but this wasn't the first real volume. However, as it is the first volume of a flashback series, it all worked out in the end. However, I found this kind of flat and not very well characterized, though interestingly plotty - and I suspect if I was well immersed in the main series first, I wouldn't have had the characterization complaint. (However, I've started at the real beginning now, and I like it rather much...)
(5/300)

Comments

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Have you watched Sandbaggers? If not, I'm curious what Queen and Country looks like to someone who hasn't...

[maribou]

I have not ever watched Sandbaggers. And Queen and Country, so far, looks like an extremely attention-grabbing and fun series with really pretty illos. Not far enough into to it to say more than that ... more later.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I would still recommend the first actual volume (they're numbered). I think flashback series make some assumptions that you know stuff already, and that probably contributed to the flatnet.

[maribou]

Almost through the first actual volume, actually - and I was / you are right, it's ever so much more entertaining. If I like 2 and 3 this much, I'll be hooked.