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When Spectre finally came out back in 2015 and turned out to be not that great, it looked like a new reboot for James Bond was on the horizon Star Daniel Craig had gone on record saying he would rather "slash [his] own wrists" than play the character again When it was announced that the[...]

File this under, "so this is a thing that is happening, (as well as things discovered through Variety)": there is an ongoing class-action lawsuit against MGM and 20th Century Fox claiming that an allegedly complete James Bond DVD box set was, in reality, incomplete The suit claims that it was deceptively marketed as a complete collection when[...]

With the next film in the James Bond franchise setting a 2019 release date earlier this week, speculation is ramping up on who will direct the film, inflaming an old rivalry between competing Hollywood gossip rags. Deadline, who seems very confident that Daniel Craig will return for the film (though there is no official confirmation of[...]

MGM has set a release date for the next film in the James Bond franchise: November 8th, 2019. But before filming can take place, MGM and EON Productions will need someone to actually play James Bond. It's recently been rumored that Daniel Craig will return to the role one more time, but that remains unconfirmed[...]

Admist all the chaos of Funko Fundays, CEO Brian Mariotti showed of some of the new products coming to shelves in the coming months as well, with all types of merchandise accounted for. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Those are some[...]

Many years ago now, on a drive to a comic convention in San Jose and back, I listened to Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, the first James Bond novel You could see the early stages of Bond in these pages A lot of the things that are now iconic about the character were first introduced here[...]

The Avenger and Green Hornet '66 Meets The Spirit series all kicking off this Wednesday as well as a new issue of James Bond and KISS/Vampirella We've got exclusive extended previews of all five of those issues for you to peruse on this 4th of July holiday…or if you're outside of the United States, Tuesday. Ash[...]

James Bond lost his parents in climbing accident in the French Alps, leaving him an orphan A new book is claiming that the real life inspiration of the character of M specifically targeted orphans to be spies. The book, Henry Hemming's Maxwell Knight: MI5's Greatest Spymaster, tells how Knight felt that being orphaned at a young age would create[...]

Writer Van Jansen (The Flash/Green Lantern) and artist Dennis Calero (X-Factor) have been selected as the creative team to bring the very first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, to the pages of comics for the first time in the series' history. Which is a little odd, as it was originally announced as being drawn by Matt[...]

Now Magnus must wrestle with her own past and manage to capture the killer – but Frederick still has a few surprises left up his sleeves… Also: Doc Spektor, Part 7! The story of the all-new master (and we use the term lightly) sorcerer continues… when Doc banishes a demon – well, sort of –[...]

Straight from Dynamite, here's a writer's commentary from Benjamin Percy talking about James Bond #4. Cover art by Dominic Reardon with interiors by Rapha Lobosco. PAGE 1: Fleming refers to Bond as a blunt instrument; a weapon So I liked the idea of creating parallelism between his eye and the muzzle of a gun, as they can be considered one[...]

But in 1973, Moore took over the iconic role of James Bond in Live and Let Die It ushered in a more sophisticated era of Bond with high-tech gadgets and a touch of camp It was followed by the Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Love Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy[...]

This (if you know your 'book Bond') is basically James Bond I bring up Butcher because that's the level that Jimmy's Bastards is going for We're looking at the chance to have another emotionally deep, funny, gory, take down of a major genre, and I think that's needed, always, in this industry. Issue one is Jimmy taking[...]

A Writer's Commentary: Kieron Gillen on James Bond Service Special, on sale from Dynamite. Cover by Jamie McKelvie and interiors by Antonio Fuso. This was an interesting project Nick and I have been talking about doing something together for the best part of a decade, and the stars have never aligned When he suggested a Bond one-off,[...]

Kiss #8 by Amy Chu and Kewber Baal, James Bond: Service one-shot by Kieron Gillen and Antonio Fuso and Pathfinder: Runescars #1 by F Wesley Schneider and Ediano Silva. KISS #8 writer: Amy Chu artist: Kewber Baal covers: Tom Mandrake (a), Charles Wilson III (b), Photo Cover (c) A new era, a new KISS Army But when they[...]

One of the constants in the James Bond series has been the ever faithful Moneypenny Now, as Dynamite expands on the Bond Universe, Jody Houser (Faith) and artist Jacob Edgar are creating the first ever James Bond: Monneypenny one-shot. Hitting stores August 30th, James Bond: Moneypenny focuses on what was intended to be a 'routine' protection[...]

James Bond, Ash Williams, Blood Brothers, Red Team, James McNamara and the survivors of Z Nation. JAMES BOND #6 Cover A: Dominic Reardon Cover B: Jason Masters Cover C: Patrick Zircher Writer: Benjamin Percy Art: Rapha Lobosco James Bond #6, "Blinded" In the action-packed finale of the Black Box story arc, James Bond descends into the secret headquarters[...]

James Bond and Doctor Who have a few things in common One of those things is that until an actor is officially announced to play the character, speculation and rumors run rampant Since Daniel Craig hasn't decided officially if he's coming back for the next Bond, the rumor mill is cranking out name after name[...]

I've been enjoying Dynamite's take on James Bond with the various creative teams Each writer/artist change feels similar to when Bond would change actors in the film series Timothy Dalton was very different from Pierce Brosnan, but both were James Bond, just with some subtle differences Going from Warren Ellis to Andy Diggle was the same[...]

This time it's Benjamin Percy talking about James Bond#3 and how he hates selfie sticks. Cover by Dominic Reardon, and interiors by Rapha Lobosco. Page 1 When I was in Tokyo—on assignment for GQ—I kept seeing signs for love hotels and pleasure hotels I asked my fixer about them, and she laughed and said, "That's where you sneak[...]

The Dynamite Entertainment presentation at the Diamond comic book retailer summit taking place in Chicago right had plenty to show off regarding the many comic books they publish, from Betty Page to Mighty Mouse to the Sovereigns. But the big news was their new James Bond comic book project, Origin. This will be the 100% origin story[...]

 Sony's rights to distribute the films expired in 2015, which means the two companies who currently the film rights Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  Eon Productions, are shopping around for a new house. NYT goes on to say the presentation to whet the appetite of possible studios was held inside a soundstage on a recreated set from the 1963 first James Bond film[...]

Get your wallets ready, there's a new IndieGoGo project in the works that a lot of people may be interested to see. GoldeneEra is an Australian

This week's exclusive extended previews from Dynamite are the fourth issue of the James Bond: Felix Leiter series by James Robinson and Aaron Campbell, spot lighting Bond's ex-CIA counterpart and the first issue of the Greatest Adventure by Bill Willingham and Cezar Razek that pulls together all of the characters of Edgar Rice Burroughs. James Bond:[...]

James Bond: Hammerhead team of Andy Diggle and Luca Casalanguida are joining up again to take the British Super-Spy out for a run in the new series Kill Chain. When a counterespionage operation in Rotterdam goes catastrophically wrong, James Bond finds himself in the crosshairs of a plot to smash NATO Someone is assassinating allied agents,[...]

And now here are Dynamite's titles based on literary characters including James Bond, Harry Dresden and Nancy Drew This is an exclusive first look at the solicitations and covers for some of the titles shipping in July 2017. JIM BUTCHER'S THE DRESDEN FILES: DOG MEN #2 Cover A: Diego Galindo Writer: Jim Butcher, Mark Powers Art: Diego[...]

We've got the second issue of James Bond by Green Arrow writer Benjamin Percy, the zero issue of the new Sovereigns series that features the Gold Key heroes like Turok, Magnus and Doctor Spektor… and there is the Masters of Spanish Comic Art collection that is just gorgeous. James Bond #2 writer: Benjamin Percy artist: Rapha Lobosco[...]

And today we get the flip side of the writer-2-writer interview from Dynamite as Fabrice Sapolsky of Intertwined talks to Benjamin Percy about James Bond #2. Cover by Dominic Reardon, interiors by Rapha Lobosco. FABRICE SAPOLSKY: James Bond is probably the easiest-hardest character to write He's been in novels, in movies (in very different incarnations), comics… So[...]

Dynamite has sent us a new writer-2-writer interview with Green Arrow and James Bond writer Benjamin Percy asking questions of Intertwined writer Fabrice Sapolsky about the finale of his series. Cover by Olivier Coipel. BENJAMIN PERCY: As a teenager, I spent countless hours at the arcade playing Double Dragon and Street Fighter 2—and countless hours at home[...]

This week's batch of exclusive extended previews includes from Dynamite Entertainment includes the third issue of KISS: The Demon by Amy Chu, Erik Burnham and Eman Casallos, the eighth issue of Red Team: Double Tap, Center Mass by Garth Ennis and Craig Cermak and the sixth issue of James Bond: Hammerhead by Andy Diggle and[...]