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Nope that was Dynamite's and IMF's plan from the start.
Besides Dynamite doesn't have the rights to all that and it would jack up the price.
CR is a Craig film anyway so what on earth would Dynamite add to it?
BUT I do agree with you that that would be nice. Remember Dynamite is also publishing monthly comics set in present day.
Yes Eidolon is quite good so far. I enjoyed Vargr as well.
Love the book, the movie is good but lacks the Flemingesque style of the book. Lets hope the comic can catch the mood.
Let's hope your right. What impressed me about Vargr was Ellis's update and characterization of Bond. Easy enough argument that there is nothing that spectacular or new beyond that.
However I still enjoyed it. But yes I agree I'm enjoying Eidolon more than Vargr. So too are critics and fans overall based on reviews and comments.
Hoping draws in even more fans.
I took delivery yesterday and frankly, it's a huge disappointment.
I find the story weak and the visualisation appalling.
When I compare it to McClusky's fine artwork of the '60s it just isn't at the races. Bond looks completely lumpen - for masochistic completists only!
Where you a fan of SP?
From Matthew Southworth's twitter account...
He referred to these as Secret Project, but those who have read the novel will immediately know which parts are these...
@mcdonbb @doubleoego @00Agent @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7
Unfortunately no.
As fare as the movies go I belong to the school that thinks CR and SF were passable.
OHMSS was the last good one and FRWL was the last and only great one.
Why can't they draw Bond ?
Fleming's descriptions are very clear and McClusky captured him perfectly.
I just don't understand. This visualisation looks like a caricature of Barbie's boyfriend Ken !
Isn't there some sort of interview for this that starts with 'please show me your drawing of Bond?'
Although, @PussyNoMore, I have to admit I have the exact feelings about these new actors that are picked as "candidates" for the role...
So you've been disappointed for 50+ years then, and still you keep hoping for better. Dedication or lunacy, who can say? While I've got FRWL at the top of my own rankings, I've also found something worth enjoying in the other films as well. Maybe you've got higher standards than me...or maybe I've just got a more realistic set of expectations.
I think Eidolon (so far) has been a more successful attempt at adapting Bond into a monthly comic book package than was VARGR. The problem with VARGR (I think) is that it was paced to be read in collected format, rather than in 22 page installments. The extended opening sequence -- sort of a PTS in comic book form -- used up a lot of the first issue to little real effect, and the rest of that first issue was just character stuff (plus a scene with some junkies that never really seemed to connect with our main story all that well.) Bond meets with M & gets his mission, Bond interacts w/ Moneypenny & Tanner, and then...well, wait until next issue for our story to really get started, folks! This approach may work when the whole story is collected, but it didn't really give a satisfactory Bond experience when read on an issue-by-issue, one month at a time, fashion. Eidolon is much better in this regard: we meet our villain, get some political machinations, have a nice scene with Bond & Leiter, meet our Bond girl for this storyline, & have a nice action sequence with some espionage/intrigue thrown into the mix. If there had been an extra page available, a shakennotstirred martini would have rounded out the package nicely. As it is, JB007 #7/Eidolon Part 1 was a perfectly satisfactory issue to my eyes only. Your mileage may vary.
I wasn't either ...
And BeatlesSansEarmuffs I agree.. after reading Eidolon #1 I pretty much read that as a pts moving Haywood's intro post title.
Yes Vargr was hindered in my opinion by its format. So much more could have been fleshed out.
But compared to where the cinematic Bond bottomed out at with SP Vargr was the Bond I wanted to see.
@ClarkDevlin, but this is very different. When casting a film, you have to balance a lot of plates in casting and make compromises. One actor may look more like Bond than another, but lack a certain presence or charm, so you have to go farther beyond just finding somebody like fits closer to Fleming's Bond look wise, and instead at the bigger picture of the performance. This of course makes it very difficult to find somebody who fits the Fleming Bond mold perfectly and can give a cracking performance with all the demanded talents possessed.
In comics and any art, however, you can draw anything you want, and make Bond look like anything you want him to be. With this new period piece comics series, which has a real chance to make a mark on the industry and in the Bond fandom, now is the time to really give us Fleming's Bond in this form, in a big, big way like we've never seen before.
With the drawing of Bond, though, in VARGR (and Eidolon) he does look as convincing as Fleming's Bond akin to the thematic of the modern times. I've no complaints about that.
Agreed. And all the complaints that he looks like Archer forget Archer is trying to look like Bond albeit generic.
Yes I like Bond's look here
True..
Just a question but why did Bond wear a suit to break into the drug ring's warehouse? I'm sure it was decided he would wear the suit because of aesthetic reasons to look like Bond. Bond wore that suit until the briefing at MI6 I believe.
But if I'm breaking into a warehouse I might want to wear something darker easier to fight in.
Just saying.
We didn't even get to see his hotel in Berlin... Did he even go to a hotel?
He took his suitcase directly to Berlin Station, and after that i assume he left it there as we never see it again...
P.S. It appears the next issue won't be coming out until August 3.
Lol ...and ugh
:(
Good. I liked Vargr but I agree #7 is far better.