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I wonder if Dynamite will release a book of covers in a year or two. They've certainly amassed enough!
https://www.jamesbondbrasil.com/2017/09/vargr-chega-no-brasil/
I love the cover btw
I'd certainly buy it.
However, we're going to have our December 2017 Solicitations within a week, so I guess that's when the synopsis will pop up.
Exactly. Really hoping they reveal the Start of the next series for December as well.
Oh yeah. But i would Not object to see him in his turtleneck outfit from LALD for the final issues. No matter what they do i am sure it will be spectacular. Andy Diggle and Casalanguida can't do wrong in my eyes.
Especially the latter draws the hell out of any outfit.
I don't know how they do it but it just keeps getting better and better.
There were so many pitch perfect moments in this issue again, it's hard to pick a favorite
@ClarkDevlin which was your favorite moment of this issue? mine were 'auto locate' and 'restaurant in brussels' :D
PS: have to pat my own back here quickly for my 777's comment :D never thought i'd get that far.
As I make this post, I'm afraid over-excitement will be the death of me soon. This is, without a doubt, the most beautiful in every sense James Bond comic book issue ever released. In fact, my mind is so blown I might lose track of what I'm even writing.
I do absolutely LOVE Bond's characterization and what Diggle did with it, not to mention, Casalanguida's magnificent art.
Don't want to spoil all things further but I do know this is going to be the best James Bond comic book ever. I loved the nods to Casino Royale (novel; the gun in the back by the seat), The Spy Who Loved Me (the van) and GoldenEye (jumping through the window).
Chantel Chevalier reminds me a lot of Dominique Paradis from Nightfire (both work for the same agency, DGSE), albeit more refined and capable. The more I love it that she tries to outsmart Bond but 007 as usual proves who's the man in the room, who's the boss around. I love it to death!
...and it appears Miss Chevalier doesn't have what it takes to know something about style. Notched lapels, if worn properly, are timeless. Just see Sean Connery in Woman of Straw.
Kill Chain follows similar villains by arming and funding both Neo-Nazis and Alt-Left to weaken the western civilization so SMERSH (by now, a rogue organization) and a secret faction of the Russian government initiates a hostile takeover.
There will never be a Fleming take on the war years but a view of what might be a a Flemingesque approach. Which is different.
While I am by no means a Fleming purist I sincerely doubt that any other writer came close to Fleming and his style. Continuation novels are just that licensed fan fiction and can be very entertaining I admit.
However, I must admit the Dynamite comics are delivering everything I want from a James Bond adventure. And I'm deeply in love with every single one of them aside from Eidolon.
I am glad they offer you everything you want, and I am not going to disagree with you because we do have different likes. It is nice that Dynamite does so well with 007 even if it seems to be a bit of an overkill currently.
Although, I do wish the Bond comics caught a wider and larger medium of an audience.
There's also an obvious Fleming essence lacking, or sense of Fleming's character period, which is of course another detriment for me. Not everything about Bond has to be exactly like Fleming, but the character should feel like the character at his core. The smarmy Bond with his quips and casual womanizing or smugness for details is well and good, but that's an exaggerated version of the original that doesn't really nail what is interesting about him as a man, or capture a fifth of who he is.
The Dynamite series of comics all started with Ellis, a man who seems to have it in his head that Fleming's Bond was this unbalanced, edgy, murderous guy with no limits, so perhaps I shouldn't be surprised when I look at the writing and don't see the original character. But of course it'd be nice to see him around, even if it only happens to be in the adaptations of the original stories Dynamite are doing that I'll get before I ever do the main runs. I guess that, reading comments from folks like Ellis, I'm continually mystified how some can read the books and see such a warped and, quite frankly, wrong impression of who Bond is. Fleming crafts a complex and contradictory character in the books (ie., a human being), but even to that point it's clear who Bond is and who Bond isn't. I don't think Dynamite have hit that sweet spot yet, in regards to his character.
Maybe this is only down to my own minority impressions, as I very much fit into the camp who thinks it's pointless or uninteresting to read anything Bond related not written by Fleming. And this is coming from a man who would kill to write and draw a Bond comic of his own one day. What a hypocrite I am. ;)
No. But I am more thrilled about the upcoming adaptation of "Casino Royale". This is the most stunning and great bit of Bond before Bond 25 premieres, as far as I'm concerned. We'll be witnessing for the very first time a comic book adaptation from Ian Fleming's novels in color. And we can directly compare that with the actual movies and storyboards!
Well, I'll be comparing the comic of Casino Royale to how I visualize the book and not how the film looks, for obvious reasons. ;)
I noticed those too immediately, even the Banter between Bond and the Girl in the van was very reminiscent of TSWLM. I would add the car scene from TND.
My favorite Bond girl from the comics so far. I immediately fell in love with her look and her character as well.
Also Diggle wrote probably my favorite Felix Leiter from all the Dynamite comics so far.
He just gets it.
I would say the car scene was more in vein of TWINE rather than TND. The switch was smaller than the one we've seen in TND.
That makes two of us. This one just explains I prefer my women brunette, even though I like all the women. ;)
Also agreed about Felix. Here we've seen the capability of him as a spy on his own that delivers rather than struggles and suffers as he often looking up to Bond. Here, he was his own secret agent which I like.
Yes, TWINE fits also. I was thinking of DAD too(fits even better due to the car model). Basically all of Brosnans cars had that same functionality after TND, they just never explicitly mention it again.
Lets just say it's a Brosnan moment ;)
I do like Brosnan, yes. By the way @ClarkDevlin please check your inbox.
For starters, there's no interesting back story presented in the comic. That is fine by the way because back stories can drag their own inescapable traps with them. But the little flashback moments to MP's youth and early career days, things that might be mistaken for an attempt at a half-decent back story, pander to the lowest common denominator, to readers who have little to no experience with this indifferent kind of cheap "character building" clichés.
The actual story of the comic, a little adventure set in the 'now', is a contextless greatest-hits collection from the 'been there, seen it' department. A low-cal ambush scene with a touch of QOS and a hint of SF tries to convince us that MP is a bad-ass homogametic James Bond who was almost inexplicably transferred to her famous desk job, supposedly because dossier dusting requires a woman of her danger sensing talents.
I will concede that one-shots present but a limited opportunity for in-depth story-telling and character-building, but that's not the problem with this comic. The problem with this comic is its grander ambition to paint a professional profile of MP whilst also picking up a few emotional pressure points which, unfortunately, never pay off. If this comic had instead been entirely devoted to one simple conversation between MP and Bond, or to her useful skills as a secretary, we might have felt right at home. But by trying to depict MP as the Wonder Woman of 007's Justice League in a PC sort of twist, an obvious extension of the more hands-on field agent we got with SF and SP, this comic feels like the answer to a question no-one has asked.