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1. Hammerhead.
2. Black Box.
3. Solstice.
I'm enjoying Dynamite's run. There have been a few duds but ultimately they are pretty good in my book.
https://blog.gocollect.com/dynamite-entertainment-extended-forecast-for-01-05-2022/
Gonna have to dive into this one again soon! I do remember it positively, but I can't recall much of it in detail.
Dynamite should use this medium to do faithful adaptions of Fleming's short stories.
Oh yeah, I forgot they were doing those. :))
https://www.amazon.com/James-Bond-Himeros-Rodney-Barnes/dp/1524121738/ref=sr_1_38?keywords=james+bond&qid=1641337596&s=books&sr=1-38
Like everyone else, I'm still waiting for Moonraker! I hope they ask Van Jensen back, even though he said he wasn't going too.
Thanks!
Did so yesterday... and it's just bad.
So the point of the gun is that it doesn't leave bullet fragments and poisons the victim? Why did you shoot him in the head? And what kind of a semi-illegal arms dealer goes around just murdering government officials?
Also, the art isn't good at all here. I don't like Antonio Fuso's work, but the first two issues he did were much better than what Giorgio Pontrelli is doing here.
Two pages about how Bond doesn't have a pilot's licence but can still fly a plane? Sure, why not.
Also, weren't they last on a boat on their way to the island? Why now a plane?
Ok, so Bond finally says he's kind of attracted to her, but you know the whole having been a leading part of a child sex trafficking ring is a bit of a downer. Glad we finally have clarity on that one. I was actually afraid they were going to end up sleeping together, the way this has been going previously.
Her room on the child sex trafficking island was styled like her childhood bedroom. That isn't creepy at all...
This is just such bad dialogue. My god.
Again with the nonsensical geography in gunfights.
OH FOR F**K'S SAKE.
Yeah, it's bad, guys.
Hah, yes. All of this.
Did you feel Bond was very Connery looking in the art of this one or was it just me?
Can't say that it came to mind for me, no. I was mainly distracted by his humongous upper lip in some panels. No idea why an artist would draw a face like that.
Yeah, in general the art is exceptionally poor in this one.
I won't disagree that The Body was the beginning of a very disappointing batch of offerings. I suspect that the Bond series has been a big disappointment for Dynamite as well as it has been for Bond fandom. Sales on the Bond titles don't seem to have been very strong....point the finger as one might, it's hard to defend the quality of the series offered AND hard to argue that Dynamite ought to be putting a greater effort into a poorly performing series. I expect the Fleming novel adaptations have been particularly disappointing, sales-wise, from Dynamite's point of view. At the very least, Bond fandom ought to be a bit more supportive of those books...and if the sales justified the expense, I'm sure Dynamite would be pushing to get those out more often.
How about the Casino Royale and Live and Let Die adaptations? Have you read those? It's got to be hard to come up with new, original Bond stories, and easy enough for Bond fans to say that recent material just doesn't live up to expectations...but these Fleming adaptations ought to be more satisfactory to Bond fandom. Still, as I say, it looks like the sales on those titles aren't living up to Dynamite's expectations. Have you read them? What did you think?
^This^ should give a few of us pause. If you want to see the Bond comics series continue, perhaps you may want to be a little more generous with your reviews. (Naw, we're fans, we reserve the right to be hyper-critical whenever we feel like it...)
From my POV, Agent of Spectre was at least an interesting concept. Himeros, not so much -- but at least they explained the meaning behind this arc's title in the current issue. That's gotta count for something ...
With you 100%. IMO, if you think something (franchise, for lack of a better word) is worth supporting, you should support it through the good and the bad. If it gets to a point where a majority of the 'franchise' is bad, then it makes sense to question whether or not to continue supporting it.
Of course, it feels like rewarding bad content by spending money on it, but I think being a fan of something like Bond means taking a long view on Bond, rather than just evaluating whether or not you support this individual thing or that individual thing.
I feel like I'm going to be in the minority here. :)) But it's just my thoughts.
We are fans, and we should be hyper-critical of the material, for sure, but I feel like we should, as fans, be engaging with that material in the first place. And if that means buying a graphic novel that is getting bad reviews, so be it.
That’s how I treat James Bond. The more I study him the more I grow as an artist.
I will say I do intend to read Agent of Spectre and Himeros. I will more than likely buy them when they come out in hardcover. If the series had had a more positive word of mouth I would be more inclined to read each issue when it comes out rather than wait a year or two when they come out in hardcover. With Dynamite I love there early success so much that I do want to support them at least until this deal runs out.
As for financially supporting a franchise you like, even if the current output isn’t good, I don’t know. There has to be a way to show Dynamite that this current series isn’t good, while there still is an interest in the property overall. Last thing I want is for them to continue down whatever this road is. I’ll buy the last issue, because I’m a completists and there is a certain addiction factor (maybe they’ll turn the whole thing around in the last issue?) and as I said, I’ll check out whatever comes next, but I wouldn’t blindly buy stuff, you know you won’t like (and to be very clear, just because 00Heaven and I don’t like Himeros doesn’t mean nobody will. Check it out, if it seems in any way interesting to you), just to prop up the franchise. Maybe buy 3 more copies of Hammerhead or something instead?
I don't know about anybody else...but I can kind of relate to a hero with that sort of mind set.
Interestingly, the 5 issues of Himeros have two different artists on them, and the (inevitable) collected edition of this storyline may suffer from the inconsistency in their artistic approaches. Personally, I was a little annoyed by the technique employed by the initial artist, Antonio Fuso... so I really didn't mind seeing him replaced by Giorgio Pontrelli in the last few issues. On panel 5 of Page 18, that sure looked like the face of a world-weary Sean Connery pointing his gun at us. Maybe there's hope for Dynamite's version of 007 after all...