Powers, Q&C ...

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.

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.