Mystique: Drop Dead Gorgeous

A few years ago Marvel published a short lived Mystique comic, featuring everyone's favorite blue-skinned shape-changing Rogue-mothering super-villainess. I wanted to like the first trade paperback collection, Drop Dead Gorgeous, but it just didn't work. Mystique is black-mailed into working for Professor Xavier as Bond to his M, carrying out a secret mission in Cuba. There's some cool Alias-style action scenes, but Mystique is portrayed like a generic adventuress--she talks in pop culture slang, has a heart of gold, and lacks the mystery, menace, and intrigue that has made the character so interesting in her previous incarnations.