
Staring Back: On Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon
Laura Blereau, Janie Cohen and I. Beth gersh-ne
Book
This book documents the Fleming Museum of Art's spring 2015 exhibition, Staring Back: The Creation...

Craft for a Modern World: The Renwick Gallery Collection
Nora Atkinson and Renwick Gallery
Book
"Craft for a Modern World" highlights nearly 200 of the extraordinary craft objects held at the...

The Living Daylights (1987)
Movie Watch
Fifteenth film in Eon's James Bond series and Timothy Dalton's first in the role. (Pierce Brosnan...

Any Human Heart
Book
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to...

Grandville Bete Noire
Book
The Badger is back! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire. Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of...

Shaun Collins (3 KP) rated James Bond, Vol. 1: VARGR in Books
Jan 12, 2018
Don't hate me. They're on the list.
But I have seen all the films, so when Dynamite announced they were doing a Bond comic, I figured I'd give it a go. All in all, not to bad. An enjoyable, if pedestrian Bond plot, with all the trappings to make it Bond. Brutal deaths, sly jokes, cool weapons, sexual innuendo, and everything blows up at the end. What more could you want?
I liked the art work, although it was a bit graphic for a Bond film, this is obviously a "dark and gritty" reboot style telling. And that's fine, just expect that when you go in. Bond looks more like Sterling Archer than Daniel Craig, and that's also fine, since Craig isn't at the top of my Bond list anyway. In fact, none of the characters are drawn to represent anyone specific, so separate continuity and all that.
I hoped for more, but wasn't disappointed.

The Black Widow
Book
Bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another spellbinding international thriller—one that...
Thriller crime
Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017
Book
Wanderlust highlights artists as voyagers who leave their studios to make art. This book (and the...