Dynamite has released two collected editions of their ongoing James Bond series of graphic novels: James Bond: Agent of Spectre by Christos Gage and Luca Casalanguida and James Bond: Himeros by Rodney Barnes and Antonio Fuso.
There's a civil war brewing within SPECTRE. An upstart American member of the international criminal organization is attempting a coup, threatening to depose Ernst Stavro Blofeld. She's on guard against Blofeld's men, so to take her out, Blofeld recruits a wild card - James Bond! With Blofeld threatening the life of Bond's friend Felix Leiter as leverage, Bond agrees...but he has a plan to use this internal strife to bring SPECTRE down once and for all. Will he succeed, or is this a dark path from which even 007 can't return?
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Himeros is the Greek God of sexual desire and one of the Erotes, the winged gods of love. When Aphrodite was born from the sea-foams she was greeted by the twin loves Eros and Himeros. But when sexual desire goes too far, it takes the legendary super-spy James Bond to bring justice to the most vulnerable among us as he investigates the suspicious death of an accused sex trafficker - one whose ties run deep... and deadly.
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Agent of Spectre is the only good series Dynamite has done since they relaunched the series. My only complaint is that, at only five issues, it's shorter than it needed to be.
ReplyDeleteHimeros, on the other end, is absolutely atrocious. An excuse to victimize women involved in sex trafficking (as in Ghislaine Maxwell) masquerading as a Bond story. Not even worth it for the art, which is third rate. Saddest thing is that somebody at IFP approves these agenda-pushing abortions (Greg Pak's, Vita Ayala's, etc.)