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JAMES BOND 007 Vol.5: Black Box

Autori: Benjamin Percy, Rapha Lobosco
17x26, C., 168 pp., col.|19€
Contiene: James Bond: Black Box #1/6
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Un nuovo intrigo internazionale per l'agente 007! Qualcuno ha sottratto delle informazioni preziose ad alcuni potenti uomini e agenti inglesi, e James Bond deve capire chi è stato e recuperare quanto rubato. Una missione difficile, che lo porterà dall'altra parte del mondo, dove ad attenderlo troverà un criminale molto diverso dal solito...



JAMES BOND 007: Case Files

Autori: Kieron Gillen, Declan Shalvey, AA.VV.
17x26, C., 160 pp., col.|19€
Contiene: James Bond 007: M, Moneypenny, Solstice, Service
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Un'imperdibile raccolta di storie brevi legate al mondo della spia inglese! Quattro celebri scrittori di per quattro racconti che parlano di James Bond ma anche di coloro che lo circondano come M e Moneypenny.
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JAMES BOND #2
Price: $3.99
Rating: Teen +
Cover A: Dominic Reardon
Cover B: Jason Masters
Cover C: Giovanni Valletta
Writer: Benjamin Percy
Art: Rapha Lobosco
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/5
Black Box Part Two – The Deadly Game
As part of Operation Black Box, James Bond infiltrates the Tokyo underworld and makes a deadly gamble at a Yakuza-controlled casino. All this time 007 is being tailed by a beautiful, mysterious assassin whose mission might be dangerously complicated with his own.
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James Bond #1 (Published by Dynamite Entertainment; Review by Justin Partridge; 'Rama Rating: 8 out of 10):

Volumes 1 and 2 of Dynamite's James Bond left some big shoes to fill, but Benjamin Percy, Rapha Lobosco and Chris O'Halloran make a damn fine go of it in the latest James Bond #1. Keeping the character in line with the blunt, but witty Bond of the Ellis era, Percy goes big and sleek for his opening; pitting Bond against cyberterrorists and hopping to exotic locales like the French Alps and the Shinjuku District of Tokyo. Artist Rapha Lobosco, whose pencils look like a stylish cross between Howard Chaykin and Eduardo Risso, keeps pace with Percy's brisk script and along with the radiating colors of O'Halloran, he distances the new volume from the previous ones with plenty of his own singular panache. If you are unsure of this new volume, just think of it as a new director and production team taking over the returning cast because James Bond #1 is too fun to just dismiss outright.
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Warren Ellis is a tough act for any writer to follow, but Ben Percy proves he's up to the task as he takes the reins of Dynamite's relaunched James Bond comic. The relaunch feels appropriate not just because of the new creative team, but because stylistically the new Bond is a very different beast. Where Ellis and Jason Masters evoked the the darker, more violent Bond of the Ian Fleming novels, Percy and Rapha Lobosco's take feels more inspired by the films. This first issue cycles through all the familiar tropes as Bond carries out a deadly mission, meets with M, flirts with a femme fatale and gathers up a pile of new spy toys. The book evokes that classic Bond feel, but it doesn't do much to break the mold, and this issue is over a bit too quickly for its own good. The flat, murky coloring also works against the otherwise solid visuals. This is especially a problem when the setting shifts to the neon-lit city of Tokyo. -Jesse

Final Score:

6.8/10
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James Bond: Service #1
Written by Kieron Gillen
Art by Antonio Fuso and Chris O'Halloran
Lettering by Simon Bowland
Published by Dynamite Entertainment
Review by Justin Partridge
'Rama Rating: 9 out of 10

"It's a nationalist time. You guys should know that. Now we work out what that means."

Whip-smart British writer Kieron Gillen brings his specific brand of wit, heart, and action to the world of MI-6 in James Bond: Service, a new one-shot springing out of the current Bond ongoing. A new United States Secretary of State is making waves with incendiary comments about Britain's diminishing role in world security, but what starts as a gaffe from a boorish American quickly spirals out of control as he draws the attention of a violent alt-right nationalist terror cell, prompting James Bond to step in to prove once again just what Her Majesty's Secret Service has to offer.

Gillen is firing on all cylinders here, delivering a razor-sharp and disarmingly charming Bond that always has a quip at the ready. Even better is Gillen's plot, one that leans into Britain and America's current mercurial political climate and twists it to his own purpose, culminating in a Bond story that is actually about something and has a genuine point to make underneath all the action and banter. Giving that action crystalline pop art life are artist Antonio Fuso and colorist Chris O'Halloran. The G.I. Joe: Cobra artist re-adapts well to the world of spycraft, working with a considerably less bombastic world, but gathering real visual steam throughout the issue with fast-moving action laid out on the page in jagged, Dutch-angled panels that help sell this one-shot's chaos, movement, and character moments.

Colorist Chris O'Halloran brings it all home with flashy, yet earth-toned bursts of colors that seem to soak into Fuso's glassy pencils and radiate the tone and themes of the script outward like some sort of action comic stained glass window. O'Halloran's colors are the right ones for Fuso's pencils, but also provides Service a nice layer of visual continuity for fans that have been keeping up with Dynamite's current James Bond output. Having done some obvious homework before taking on coloring duties on Benjamin Percy's "Black Box" arc, O'Halloran's shading, hues, and action scene pallette will remind readers of those of Guy Major from the "Eidolon" and "Vargr" arcs; the same kind of restrained, realist action comics that aren't afraid to go a little broad when they need to.

But Fuso and O'Halloran have a fantastic foundation to build on, thanks to Kieron Gillen's pointed script. Like O'Halloran's colors and Fuso's respectfully irreverent Matthew Vaughn-esque scene construction, Gillen dances well between the serious and silly, striking the same kind of balance between the two as more underrated cultish Bond film efforts like On Her Majesty's Secret Service and GoldenEye did. Making full use of Bond's ancillary characters like the charmingly rumpled, put-upon Felix Leiter, a scene-stealing Moneypenny, the irascible Boothroyd of Q Branch, and this series' no-nonsense and droll M, Gillen has something to say with this one-shot but he wants to make it as fun as possible; comic books' take on allowing you to have your dessert and your veggies at the same time.

Mealtime metaphor aside, Gillen isn't trying to be subtle about the themes of this one-shot which gives the story an incendiary confidence. The plot revolves around a bullish new American power player (Sound familiar?) who steps on foreign soil and instantly makes an ass of himself (Sound familiar?!) and in doing so draws the ire of a paranoid radicalized sleeper cell of "patriots" who demand that the slight against England (read: white men) be answered in blood (Seriously, does this sound familiar?!?!).

Gillen has never been one to put blinders up to the world around him or to avoid touchy subjects, but Service is him at both his most political and at his most fun, which is great because this one-shot could have come across either tone deaf or self-serious thus killing any hope for enjoyment. But thankfully Kieron Gillen earns his Double-O status with honors with plenty of action, brains, and a barrel full of truly hilarious verbal barbs; "Well, Jack, who are your charming neo-Nazi friends?" being my personal favorite.

We all awoke this morning to the news of Roger Moore's death. His was the longest consecutive run on the role of 007, and though his entries lean more toward camp, Moore's performance always sold it, attempting to imbue a sense of gravitas even when talking about moon lasers or chasing down Christopher Walken. James Bond: Service, to me, is the best possible version of Moore's attempts, providing a Bond for the world we live in now, racist warts and all. Dynamite Entertainment has made great use of the Bond license so far, and Service proves that they have no intention of slowing down quite yet.
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