Queen and Country vol. 8 Operation: Red Panda by Greg Rucka and Chris Samnee
Queen and Country vol. 8 Operation Red Panda collects issues 29 to 32 of the Oni Press comic-book series, which is taking a break while author Rucka focuses on other projects.
Tara Chace is Minder 1 for Britain’s S.I.S., or MI6, which deals with international affairs. She’s a tough, smart, savvy spy who has seen far too much tragedy in her years of service. Operation: Red Panda finds her returned after a mission gone wrong, and pressed back to service quickly, without time to recover mentally, emotionally, and physically. The new mission is an unauthorized one, so even if it succeeds, it will cause trouble. In an interesting twist, though, Chace and her partner encounter trouble that could not have been anticipated.
Rucka has written two Queen and Country prose novels as part of this series. If you like international spy novels, and enjoyed the television series MI5 or the Jason Bourne movies, this is a good series to check out.
The best place to start is with the Whiteout graphic novels, where Chace is introduced. They’re good stories, told well in words and art.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
i didn’t read the comics but i enjoyed the “prose novels.”