Powers, Q&C ...

[sschroeder]

Anybody else miss Powers and Queen & Country?

Queen & Country seems to have silently died. Only three issues this year, including a Declassified issue.

Only 4 issues of Powers this year so far.

[torippu]

Anybody else miss Powers and Queen & Country?

Queen & Country seems to have silently died. Only three issues this year, including a Declassified issue.

Only 4 issues of Powers this year so far.

This must be one of the advantages of reading Q&C in collected form - I've had a new novel and two Declassified HCs (which I have yet to read) to keep me happy this year.

[DWEarhart]

I further the Q & C paperback read. They flow much more smoothly, and the novels are a hoot, a hoot I tell you.

Powers became too big. I loved it, originally, but shortly before it moved to Marvel, it was just too busy, too cluttered. Perhaps a re-read is in order, but I don't regret dropping it.

[pmpknface]

I read the 1st Q&C arc and liked it, but the wait between issues killed me so I stopped after #4. I now have vol.'s 1-6 that are waiting to be read.

I started with the 1st Powers trade, moved to the issues, and then stopped it after it's Image run. Now I'm only getting the trades, only 1 of which has come out so far from Marvel. The second one was just solicited for in last month's Previews and I ordered it. I think it's called "Cosmic."

[sschroeder]

I could make due via a couple of decent routes, but it isn't the same, if you ask me.

I haven't read the first 20 issues of Powers vol. 1, or the first dozen issues of Q&C, so, of course, those are still out there for me. I usually don't get all the back issues when I start reading a series. I just go from that point. Only with Blade of the Immortal and Usagi Yojimbo have a I picked up some older material in trade and expect to continue doing that slowly over time. Powers and Q&C are in that category where I'd want to have read them all at some point. These are the other two series that I've read the most consistently since picking up comics reading again a few years ago. However, like BotI and UY, I want them to continue coming out somewhat regularly as comics in the here and now. And since the creative process (Bendis+Oeming, and Rucka+whoever) hasn't really changed on the books, that expectation is still lingering there.

I haven't read the Q&C novels. Shifting from another medium (TV, movies, comics, skywriting) to novels just doesn't seem to interest me all that much. I'll dabble. But this is essentially the most burdensome shift in terms of commitment to the viewer. I appreciate the value is better. Yet that doesn't always mean I'll go for it. While I think Q&C is a decent product as a comic, I'm not sure I love it enough to go read a novel. I'm just not getting through nearly as many novels as when I was younger for whatever reason.

I understand the realities here. I'm not whining about lateness. The guys have better paying, wider audience gigs. I just wish some of these stalwarts of my monthly comics reading would remain so a bit longer.

[pmpknface]

I've totally lost my ability to sit and read a novel. It's pathetic....

[sschroeder]

I've totally lost my ability to sit and read a novel. It's pathetic....

I have a Listmania on Amazon with books I haven't finished. Nothing ever seems to come off it.

[De Carabas]

Q&C I am really missing. I enjoyed the two Declassifieds that just got collected, but every month I check Previews for it and my heart sinks just a little lower. I do get some enjoyment from 52, but nothing that makes me willing to part with Q&C.

Powers I don't really miss, per se. I already had a rocky relationship with the book. Where Q&C was True Love, Powers has been a relationship of constant Break Up and Make Up. I would love one volume (e.g. Who Killed Retro Girl) and then hate another (e.g. Supergroup). I got vol. 9 months ago, and I still haven't read it, because I'm not sure if I want to just read as is or go back to the beginning and read straight through. Wish I knew why I am so uneven with this series.

Personally, I am a novel reader and I loved the two Q&C novels. The novel format is where the espionage thriller was born, and where it has thrived for all these decades. I think superhero novels are too far a departure from the source. The text description of Daredevil fighting Bullseye falls flat compared to actually looking at it. But Q&C, translates quite nicely. If you are on the fence about them, I can say that they are great reading and like Rucka's other novels, they are fast reading.

EM

[Deathstroke]

Queen & Country is perhaps the finest comic on the market. I do wish it would come out a bit more often.

The Q&C novel Private Wars is probably the best book that I've read this year.

[dancj]

I've totally lost my ability to sit and read a novel. It's pathetic....

I never partucularly had it. I've never been able to speed read and my attention really wanders when it takes me two weeks to get through a single story. I do it occasionally (I've probably read around 20 or 30 novels), but I've always got much more time for comics.

Dan

[pmpknface]

Dan, I think you and I are in the same place here. I have a stack of novels that I've STARTED and just ever got around to finishing. Some I know are good too! I think I'm 1/2 way through AMERICAN GODS, and that's been sitting there for a few years now.

[dancj]

Although I don't read many novels, I always finish a book I start - I even made it to the end of the first volume of Lord of The Rings even though I was the most tedious slog I've ever taken on. It put me off novels for a couple of years though