I remain really torn on Queen and Country. It’s well-plotted and the art is occasionally quite nice (depending on who’s drawing the arc – I’m actually pretty fond of the one artist per arc format), but it’s hard to get around the fact that Rucka seems a little overly fond of the hard-drinking, self-destructive tough gal. Things get a little more over-the-top here than in previous volumes – I have a hard time believing Chace could drink that much and live – but the real problem is the completely unreferenced storyline that occurs between the two story arcs contained here. After a little research, I figured out that Rucka had written a Queen and Country novel that occurred between the two storylines. You’d think that, in a definitive edition, there could be a short summary or at least a mention of the book. It’s fairly jarring that a character who is missing from the first story (because he has moved to a “less fatal” career path) to die between storylines. Given that the entire second storyline is based on Chace’s fragile emotional state due to the events of the novel, it seems odd not to mention it.