Vargr Archives

And as I'm looking for trades to give as gifts, the hardback edition of James Bond: Vargr quickly climbs to the top of the list. The hard to pronounce Vargr is an old East Norse word meaning: wolf, evildoer, destroyer Leave it to Warren Ellis to pull an old Norse word for a title The story[...]

Having gone back and read a few including the original, Casino Royale, there is some truth in that. With in the first few pages of the new Dynamite series subtitled Vargr, Warren Ellis gives us a James Bond that feels like he comes out of the novel pages more than from the big screen We're eight[...]

In unrequited love with James Bond, her role in the films conflated that of the character in the books and Bond's own secretary. It would take until the film Skyfall for us to learn any backstory, portrayed by Naomie Harris, and given a first name Eve and originally a field agent assigned to work with Bond,[...]

In his regular-ish newsletter Orbital Operations (sign up here), Warren Ellis talked about James Bond again. Ellis is the writer of the new James Bond comic, VARGR, published today by Dynamite, drawn by James Masters. We've covered his thoughts on Bond before, that may have led to him getting the gig He talks about the Bond in[...]

Dynamite has given us a look inside the new James Bond: Vargr #1 by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters The series kicks off this November. James Bond returns to London after a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, to take up the workload of a fallen 00 agent… but something evil is moving through the back streets[...]

For part of VARGR, he doesn't even have his (updated) Walther.   CB: You're presenting Bond as a contemporary spy; how do you adapt the character from a hero who epitomized the post-WW2 / Cold War era that Ian Fleming wrote about? Fleming seemed to have built a meticulous (albeit occasionally contradictory) timeline for Bond that was largely[...]

Here's a black-and-white look at the brand new James Bond comic book VARGR, by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters Unlettered, uncoloured, the rest is yet to come…. Beginning "VARGR", the first story in the ongoing James Bond comic series by best-selling writer Warren Ellis! James Bond returns to London after a mission of vengeance in Helsinki,[...]

The updated Walther is there, of course, as is Major Boothroyd, a character based on the real Geoffrey Boothroyd, a man so eccentric that I just had to use him. BB: Can you tell us about the first arc of your book, VARGR, and what that name entails? WE: VARGR is an Old Norse word meaning variously[...]