I have to admit... I've never read the previous 007 omnibuses, nor have I read the comic strips when they were first published in the Daily Express (they came out a bit before my time; and since I’ve only read a couple of Ian Fleming’s novels, the only comparisons I can make really will be with the Bond movies. As such, this review will simply be about this book alone, ignoring any further influences that may cross my path...a difficult undertaking considering I grew up watching Sean Connery and his subsequent jet-setting replacements saving-the-world.
However, the comic strips follow a notably different route to what many fans have seen in the movies, including yours truly. The films themselves were toned down from the original novels, and following the same pattern the comic strip tones things down further. If anything the presentation has been paired to the bone.
This...
However, the comic strips follow a notably different route to what many fans have seen in the movies, including yours truly. The films themselves were toned down from the original novels, and following the same pattern the comic strip tones things down further. If anything the presentation has been paired to the bone.
This...
- 4/10/2012
- Shadowlocked
The second volume of the collected comic strip adventures of James Bond has been released by Titan Books, and for your money you’ll get an enjoyably alternative take on some of the spy’s most famous adventures.
The three panel comic strips were printed daily in the Express and then The Sunday Times during the early Sixties, a time when Sean Connery was making a name for himself in the big screen incarnation of Ian Fleming’s most famous creation. The collected stories in this omnibus are “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, “You Only Live Twice”, “The Man With the Golden Gun”, “The Living Daylights”, “Octopussy”, “The Hildebrand Rarity” and “The Spy Who Loved Me”, stories well known to any Bond fan but they may not have seen them told in quite this way.
It’s hard to see the stories completely fresh given how iconic the movie...
The three panel comic strips were printed daily in the Express and then The Sunday Times during the early Sixties, a time when Sean Connery was making a name for himself in the big screen incarnation of Ian Fleming’s most famous creation. The collected stories in this omnibus are “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, “You Only Live Twice”, “The Man With the Golden Gun”, “The Living Daylights”, “Octopussy”, “The Hildebrand Rarity” and “The Spy Who Loved Me”, stories well known to any Bond fan but they may not have seen them told in quite this way.
It’s hard to see the stories completely fresh given how iconic the movie...
- 4/4/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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