My. Word.

Unbelievable.

One of the truly great individual issues of a comic that I have ever had the pleasure to read.

Although the conclusion was really revealed several pages in to this book, every single panel and every single bit of dialogue was an unbelievable pleasure.

I don't want to give anything away about this book, but there are two quotes that bear repeating:

1) "You see, everyone's been treating this like it's a game of chess. But you only play honourable games if you don't care about the pieces. If lives and nations are at stake--one cheats." - Pete Wisdom.

2)"Dr. Hussain, I think your life from now on is going to be a very British compromise--living with something terrible, dealing with it in domestic terms. Tragedy right up against sitcom, in a way other cultures don't really get." - Captain Britain.

This arc, and perhaps the entire prematurely closed run, was really the story of Pete Wisdom, the brilliant character working the margins - halfway between the administrators bellowing orders from a comfortable distance and the front-line soldiers suffering casualties much too regularly.

I'll miss this, but I know I can hold out until Cornell's next run of CB/MI-13.