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Awesome!!!! Glad I can read vertically or I'd be stressed right now :)
Perfect. I'm purchasing my copy tomorrow.
Enjoy it with utmost pleasure, my friend! :D
...although I totally had to roll my eyes at the battleship line lol.
Yup :)
....remember the old Battleship game??
Bond's first story arc Vargr is now completed and I absolutely enjoyed it. By far in my opinion the most successful interpretation of a contemporary Fleming Bond.
I could do without the smoking ...that could be argued as more of a dated habit of Fleming's time. And I wish Ellis had had time to embellish his story a bit more without the constraints of a monthly comic. The obvious plus though we get a monthly comic. You can always embellish and cast and film and score the thing in your mind if you enjoy filming dream films in your head.
My mind so I cast Hardy and got imaginary blast on this forum for the casting and Bond being too brutish. Although I added a "short man" jab at Bond by a murderous Amazon woman at the end.
Yes I'm weird but it's fun to challenge your imagination during late night insomnia.
I also had to change couple of things to avoid repeating SP including a scene on the docks.
I kept Harris, replaced Fiennes with Sir Ben Kinsley since different character, made double O section separate more dirty work under the guise of Universal Exports so a could keep the old office, recast Q to fit the Ellis creepy one, and released through WB as a separate two picture deal only. Also it was cheaper to film. Butterworth adapted Ellis's story. Can't remember the cinematography's name but the guy from The Internationist lensed the lala land film so slightly more industrial and muted than the comic.
Also had the keep the ending brutal not bloody and fast so the audience wouldn't catch I just refilmed the TND ending ;).
The film performed better that SP but short of SF in NA. Slow start in UK (first American director :P) but was steady ending close to SP.
By the way, did anyone who read Issue #6 noticed that Bond referred to MI6 as "Circus" during his report via earpiece after killing the first two patrolling guards? Spy Mania lovers out there will know that was a reference to John Le Carre's George Smiley novels. :D
Yea I kinda nerded out lol.
And I didn't at first but true.
Let's see what Eidolon is about to bring. I read in an interview article that Warren Ellis is largely influenced by Umberto Eco's book called Numero Zero that tells the story of chained conspiracies related to espionage and all. Having been largely impressed by Ellis' storytelling in the Bond franchise, I have high hopes to be blown away by his incarnation of SPECTRE and the way they operate.
Same here. :)
He found a great angle with his old-school/contemporary approach and Made this Bond world completely it's own. Much grittier than the Movies ever Could be, for obvious reasons
Oh, and @00Agent, if you haven't read them before, try your hand at two other Bond comics as I recommended a few other chaps here in the previous pages. Read Serpent's Tooth. It'll give you helluva of a joy, and may I say it's as good as VARGR.
Me to, i am not opposed to New ideas, this Bond is far removed from the Movie Bond, in some aspects he is really unsympathetic and Borderline psychotic, but you could have said the same thing about Craigs CR Bond if it weren't for the love story half way through.
I think this version is very refreshing to read and they had to be at least a little bold to make this Comic book it's own thing. You can't just copy the Movies and call it a day.
I did read Serpents Tooth and I enjoyed it a lot. It is pretty good, totally over the top, and very 90's but thats what makes it so fun.
What i also enjoy a lot is the Comic strips from the 50-60's. I bought the complete collection last year to prepare for Vargr and I am halfway through by now.
The thing is, when Masters (the artist of the comic book) started claiming that he went to read those old comic strip Bonds and followed McLusky's suit, I do see VARGR's panels bearing strong resemblances to those Daily Express comic strips a lot. Especially keeping up with the tone of McLusky's work with an updated outline.
Yes, welcome @00Agent. :)
Hoping when the complete arc is published in hardback in June we start getting reader reviews here.
Anxious to see how the forum responds.
Very different but refreshing from the films.
A full graphic novel without restraint on the story from Ellis would be nice.
Especially not on this Forum :D
Masters would not have been my first choice but i find him perfectly suitable, and his comitment honorable (from the Interview i read a couple days ago on here) and if Ellis specifically requested him, he knew what he was doing. I would have loved to see a bit more of Berlin since i am huge on Bond traveling locations, but he did a nice little thing that I only noticed on my 3rd read through, which is showing famous Berlin landmarks as shadows on Bonds car window when he's driving through the town...
I agree, a graphic novel would be really dope, but a long continous Bond series would be the next Best thing. Maybe they could turn Casino Royale into a contemporary graphic novel, making it the most adapted Bond work ever (which it probably already is)
Yes, Masters is quite the Bond fan. I checked some of his twitter posts prior to the release of VARGR and the man definitely was ready for the job. And yes, we do see that beautiful scenery reflecting on Bond's window in Issue #2. The whole arc began in the greatest manner, and the creators of it gave us something brilliant, but not their best. That's what an author should do. Come up with brilliance, yet not put out the best in the front seat and reserved that for the last. That's what Ellis and Masters are doing.
I do think a few graphic novels are being planned as well as another timeline separate from the modern day setting established with VARGR. A period piece set of adventures set in and before the original Fleming timeline. And also, a very faithful adaptation of the Casino Royale novel (as a period piece) is also in the pipeline.
True, and I thought I read they were working on Casino Royale as a period piece. I've heard nothing recently though.
Do you think Dynamite and IFF's plan might have changed a bit with the positive reaction of Vargr?
I don't think that will change, though. Because, for Fleming purists, it will be the perfect escapism seeing post-World War II/Cold War era James Bond with visuals.