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You're both welcome! I did also ask her if any classic characters are returning. She didn't respond. Which meets we might see a classic character(s) return that aren't regularly seen in Bond. She also stated her love for TMWTGG. So we could see the return of Scaramanga maybe? Let's hope!
We only have CR and LALD so far.....
It is frustrating, isn't it? For a brief while, I thought they were going to get us all the books. I was mostly looking forward to MR, DAF, TSWLM, YOLT, and TMWTGG. Another collection started that may never be finished.
Yes, and that's sad and frustrating indeed, because Comics is also a great way for us to understand each scenes in the books better, like we have Folio Society, but it's still different to show each scenes in the books through visual forms where we could understand how each particular scenes have played out, and also the descriptions.
EDIT: Actually Agent of SPECTRE was cool too, great story material there.
VARGR is kind of the LTK here with its blood and gore. Hammerhead combines elements of TND and TWINE with a female villain taking over her late dad's tech company and boat raid at the end. (Note that Japan has just demonstrated its ship-mounted electromagnetic railgun which looks a lot like Hammerhead.) Black Box is good if a bit too sci-fi, with the main villain reminding me of the enemies in Serpent's Tooth! Ever heard of nail clippers, pal? Solstice is kind of the FRWL with its lean, classic Flemingesque vibe and has similarities to 007 in New York, seeing Bond traveling overseas to save an unknowing woman with ties to MI6 from her KGB agent boyfriend. No scrambled eggs here I'm afraid, but some nuts get cracked, if you know what I mean.
Solstice is by far my favourite, and I'd wish they would adapt this closely to screen - but it's a short story - and like TLD, they'd need to expand on it. For example, have Bond upload the contents of the antagonist's phone to MI6 before tossing it in the river, leading to a bigger network of KGB moles infiltrating intelligence agencies. Maybe the CIA or NSA become a target, giving the writer's the opportunity to include either Felix or one of the NSA Bond girls. Trafalgar Square ending and Christmas theme can remain.
The comics did a nice job of modernizing Bond while adding some of the old traits like the smoking of Morlands and driving of Bentleys. Hopefully Amazon are taking notes and inspiration from this series.
Absolutely correct. Those first few series were amazing! It went downhill from there, in terms of story and art.
I know Dynamite Comic don't do manga (or Japanese comics/graphic novels), but I would really love to have Dynamite to team up with either Seven Seas Entertainment or Viz Media to licence/pick up the James Bond manga done by Takao Saito (of Golgo 17 fame), I mean manga are more mainstream in the US/North American market now then they were back in the 60's (when the JB manga was first released in Japan).
The reason I would want Dynamite to team up with Seven Seas Entertainment or Viz Media because both US-based manga publishers have experience with publishing older manga like for example this is what Seven Seas' older manga titles they handled. Viz Media has previously handled the Transformers G1 manga that never had any previous US release until 2020. If Dynamite and one of the 2 manga publisher I just mentioned above can get the James Bond manga done by Takao Saito and have it release in the US, I would buy the whole manga in the heartbeat and I say this not only as a lifelong Bond 007 fan, but also as a anime/manga fan for 20+ years.
Speaking of manga, I would love if Dynamite Entertainment could maybe get a mangaka to do a new James Bond manga (or an OEL manga) for the manga market in the US and in Europe. I would love it if Dynamite could get Tatsuya Endo (yes, of Spy X Family fame), or Naoki Urasawa to do the artwork (and also the storyline). I mean manga outsell US comics/graphic novels and James Bond was previously adapted into a manga, why not try it again?