Currently on a reread of the Dynamite books, and enjoying it as always. No matter how many times I read it, the VARGR intro just gets me every time. Love it.
Currently on a reread of the Dynamite books, and enjoying it as always. No matter how many times I read it, the VARGR intro just gets me every time. Love it.
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
I'm too lazy to read a 52 page thread but did notice that page 1 started by raving about Ellis' Bond, which I loved also.
Since Ellis, how highly regarded around here are the other runs?
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Reached Kill Chain in my reread. Definitely the weakest entry so far, a surprising as I enjoyed Hammerhead (same creator team). The Swiss army knife joke was too manufactured. Bond's torture escape didn't make sense, he isn't Hulk. The ending was anti climactic, it was actually quite easy to forget what it was all about most of the time. Still, the art was great
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
This I said it earlier that Diggle's work is a bit too similar to the movies. Haven't read them in a while but I remember KILL CHAIN has several plot points from THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS while HAMMERHEAD is pretty much THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH with a railgun.
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Yeah, crazy heiress who has a fling with Bond stages attacks on her own company and kills her father, manipulates a sort of black market 'middle man' who eventually helps Bond, and even captures M.
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Been reading the ORIGIN series. It's interesting in that it takes a World War II setting, as presumably the Bond of Fleming's novels would've definitely served in the war (As Fleming did himself). Also very Flemingesque in that while there's sex, violence and some over-the-top villains Bond isn't exactly the more humorous character we often get from the movies and most of the gadgets are fairly practical and reality-based. Also there's a few issues on Bond's naval service as well.
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It will be interesting to see how the events of NTTD affect the Dynamite series going forward. It seems to be affecting some of the novels.
Haven't they already done a few spinoffs for Bond characters like Felix and (obviously based on the Harris version) Moneypenny? Seems like the "good" Oddjob, John Lee, might be an interesting choice.
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