Tara Chace has depth, and she changes over the course of the series, and her world is turned upside down more than once. The art and writing are top-notch, with a compelling lead character who does some bad-ass spy stuff but has way more interesting internal and emotional conflicts than, say, James Bond. Overall, it’s an awesome way to enjoy the complete series, and way easier and more cost-effective than trying to hunt down all the single issues one-by-one.
But, each of the four volumes is a sturdy paperback with a solid binding and high-quality paper. A wider blank space in the gutter would have been a good thing. The black-and-white art of the original series still looks incredible at this size, though some of the edges of panels disappear in the gutter - unless you want to test the limits of how far you can force the book’s spine open. I only struggled in a couple of stories, such as the first one where Tara’s thoughts appear in a cursive script that didn’t fare well from being shrunk. It was not as bad as the Tintin collection, which practically required a magnifying glass. The page size is slightly smaller than a typical comic book, which occasionally makes the lettering a little hard to read. With the Definitive Edition, you won’t get the full-color covers, though the black-and-white versions are high quality. But, you get enough context from each story to follow along anyway, and a helpful flashback or two fills in the important gaps. “These events take place after the events in ” comes up at least once. Queen & Country is also a series of prose novels, and the comic-book adaptations sometimes skip a novel.
Still, you will find a few a gaps in chronology. With the Definitive Edition, it was great to read it all again in chronological order. I had discovered a few scattered issues in a used bookstore and gradually pieced together the set before selling it. Years ago, I sold a complete collection, and you can see photos of the interior art and full-color covers in my old post about the collection.
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