...And now I'm reading Private Wars - A QUEEN & COUNTRY NOVEL!! (Arr, beware them spoilers!)

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It's good, too! But Dave -- the thing that makes Rucka punchable, it's not such a big deal, I don't think, if I'm assuming correctly what the thing is, i.e. her post-Iraq relationship with Crocker et al.

― Leeeeeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

I saw this in FP yesterday, and was surprised that I hadn't heard of it. It does seem to go to some lengths to avoid pointing out that there's a comic book with the same characters (IE the phrase "A Queen & Country novel" was nowhere to be seen).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

But where does this take place in CONTINUITY??

Last time I checked, I read A Gent's Game and then Operation: Saddlebags, and that was like a year ago! Is it alternating between trades and novels now?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

jesus fuck, at least mass market paperbacks are cheap, and so is oni press, but still. rucka why you take money all time? ;(

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard Rucka talk about where Private Wars fits into continuity, and I can't remember what he said. But assuming that there haven't been any comics in between the novels, then I think what he said is that PW is the fallout from AGG.

― Leeeeeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh special offer! Buy it before the new year, and get a signed & numbered bookplate!

― Leeeeeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh goodness!

― Rainier Wolfcastleee (Leee), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

UK = GCPD
USA = Batman

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

Aaand now I've finished it!

Where AGG started off slowly and ramped up the intensity over the book, PW is the opposite -- it starts white-hot, but settles into more a deliberate(d) pace.

There's less spy-action, but that's more than compensated by the political/backdoor shenanigans, some of which are SEAT-POUNDING PULSE-WHITENING EDGE-OF-YOUR-KNUCKLES!!

Crocker is REALLY good in this.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

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