The black-and-white art of the original series still looks incredible at this size, though some of the edges of panels disappear in the gutter - unless you want to test the limits of how far you can force the book’s spine open. I only struggled in a couple of stories, such as the first one where Tara’s thoughts appear in a cursive script that didn’t fare well from being shrunk. It was not as bad as the Tintin collection, which practically required a magnifying glass. The page size is slightly smaller than a typical comic book, which occasionally makes the lettering a little hard to read. With the Definitive Edition, you won’t get the full-color covers, though the black-and-white versions are high quality. But, you get enough context from each story to follow along anyway, and a helpful flashback or two fills in the important gaps. “These events take place after the events in ” comes up at least once. Queen & Country is also a series of prose novels, and the comic-book adaptations sometimes skip a novel.
Still, you will find a few a gaps in chronology. With the Definitive Edition, it was great to read it all again in chronological order. I had discovered a few scattered issues in a used bookstore and gradually pieced together the set before selling it.
Years ago, I sold a complete collection, and you can see photos of the interior art and full-color covers in my old post about the collection.
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