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With Agent Of Spectre and Himeros being released September 12, for now.
https://www.amazon.com/JAMES-BOND-AGENT-SPECTRE-Christos/dp/1524120472/ref=sr_1_14?crid=G5D8DLA13GP7&keywords=James+Bond&qid=1681917048&s=books&sprefix=jame+,stripbooks,1070&sr=1-14
https://www.amazon.com/James-Bond-Himeros-Rodney-Barnes/dp/1524121738/ref=sr_1_24?crid=G5D8DLA13GP7&keywords=James+Bond&qid=1681917183&s=books&sprefix=jame+,stripbooks,1070&sr=1-24
This? https://www.playboy.com/read/james-bond-origin-a-train-to-catch
Yes, it sucks. I think Comicsgate really hurt them a few years ago.
Oh, and the first arc of the series, titled Myrmidon, will be published in hardcover the same month.
I liked the first and second one, not much for the rest.
I have to say the story is letting it down a bit. The comics have been more outlandish and sci-fi and I think you can get away that but it being basically a mash up of No Time to Die and Double or Nothing should be my idea of perfection, it can't help feeling a bit derivative though. And maybe it is because I rattled through them but there was a lot of action and I wish we'd had more moments to slow down, I would've loved a little bit longer exploring Bond in exile. That said I liked getting to see the different Double Os and I'm still intrigued to find out what secrets Gwen Gann is keeping.
Earlier projects like Felix Leiter and the Fleming adaptations were wonderful but left unfinished. What we get now is hackneyed products with weak stories and abysmal artwork.
I’d be happy to see the 007 license go to another publisher.
I'd be happy to see the existing publisher be more successful with the license. Simply put: I'd like to see ANY US publisher be any kind of successful with the Bond license. Consider the history of Bond comics in the USA: DC released one and only one 007 comic book -- Showcase #43 in 1963, a reprinting of the Classics Illustrated UK adaptation of Dr. No. After that, nothing... nada... no Bond comics at all for nearly 20 years. During the whole of the '60s, unquestionably Bond's most successful era as a cultural force... nothing in terms of the American comic book market. Finally, in 1981 and 1983, Marvel released adaptations of For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy. Nothing further from Marvel (the U.S.'s largest and most successful comic book publisher) after those. A few years later, Eclipse published a couple of Bond comics in collaboration with the UK's Acme Press. Next up was Dark Horse Comics; but after a mere half-dozen offerings from 1992-1995 they too allowed the license to lapse. Finally, and most abysmally, Topps Comics acquired the license for an adaptation of Goldeneye in 1995. Intended as a 3-issue adaptation of the then-current movie, Topps released one and only one issue of the projected series. Work on issue #2 broke down for...... reasons never officially explained.
And that's been it for Bond in comic book form in the USA... until 2014, when Dynamite obtained the license. You want to see the license go elsewhere? Scant chance of that, I suspect. When the license passes from Dynamite's hands (and eventually it will, we just have no way of knowing when) I suspect other American publishers will have little interest in picking up the license. The Bond series will have already failed in American comics from so many other sources, why even bother trying? When the Bond rights are again available to US comics, I'd be very surprised to see them picked up for at least a decade.
"What we get now is..." something I suspect you haven't even looked at. The reviews of Phillip Kennedy Johnson's scripts for the last 2 story arcs have been getting positive reviews. The artwork for these arcs has likewise been improved. Maybe more to your liking, maybe not... but certainly nowhere near "abysmal." Give these more recent arcs a look, I think you just might be surprised. Or ignore the Dynamite Bond comics altogether and wait for a new publisher to take over the license ... but I'm afraid you'll be in for a long wait.
You suspect wrong. Of course I’ve been reading the current material. Hence my disappointment with it.
And you don't like Gwen Gann? You don't think Myrmidon is the best pseudo-Spectre we've seen in quite awhile? You don't even like Joseph Michael Linsner's covers?? Each to their own, of course -- but what exactly ARE you looking for in a 007 comic book?
Looks like Myrmidon has disappointingly been delayed until October now.
I've been liking the Linsner covers in this series & will be happy to grab his offering for issue #6 as well. Just picked up issue #5 and I must say, these past two mini-series (written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson) have been much more to my liking than what had been coming out prior to these. Whenever the Myrmidon collection are released, I urge you to give them a try!
I’m kind of lost with what’s come out since Agent of Spectre. I know of Himeros, how was that? And what’s come out since then? Just by quickly reading through the last few pages on this thread, it seems for King and Country isn’t too bad. Anything else decent?
After that, I think For King and Country (I think the first run was just called 007 and then they retroactively applied that title?) is the only thing out and still running. I like it a lot, although I haven't gotten around to reading the latest issues.
You seem to know your stuff, and so I'd be super interested in seeing something like this from a proven collection of artists. I was pretty well ready to write off this format altogether for Bond, but maybe it's just the current players.
Still want to read Agent of Spectre so I might try to pick that up somewhere soon.
A panel from For King and Country. PKJ also says he'd be at NY Comic Con next week. With some announcements.
Interestingly, Garth Ennis is now writing a Bond comic.
Garth Ennis, co-creator of Preacher, Hitman and The Boys, is to be the new writer of the James Bond 007 comic.
James Bond #1 will be published by Dynamite Entertainment in January 2024, drawn by Rapha Lobosco.
"When I took a look at the Bond of the Fleming novels, as opposed to the larger-than-life figure from the movies, I saw a great deal more potential — a much darker character in a more interesting world," said writer Garth Ennis.
This new story titled "Your Cold, Cold Heart" finds Bond dealing with a truly disturbing silent killer. A relic of the Cold War, the deadly compound Stalvoda — roughly meaning "steel water" in Russian — is thought to have achieved the impossible – the holy grail of arms manufacturers: is it possible to kill an enemy without inflicting any visible damage and leaving no trace whatsoever? Right as the weapon is perfected, though, it escapes the lab. MI6 naturally assigns their top operative to the hunt.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/garth-ennis-james-bond-ian-fleming-original-novels-007/
And for those more in the know about comics: Is there some rule that an author change has to mean a new #1? Because Dynamite putting out something like nine different „James Bond #1“ is kind of a bad joke at this point.