James Bond #8 - "Eidolon," Part 2

[laughing_tree]

"I tend to think of the ‘Bond Girl’ thing as a movie thing, and also kind of dismissive and bullshit. There is usually a female presence in the books, of course, because that’s the nature of Bond himself. 'Eidolon' has more female characters than 'Vargr,' but I don’t conceive of them as ‘Bond Girls’ per se." -- Warren Ellis

Comments

[dc2houseofmystery]

I was really excited for that last panel-- Warren Ellis' take on Spectre. This run can go so many places, and I was sad to hear he's leaving after this arc wraps.

[mrstatham]

Ellis' habit, unfortunately. But yeah, this immediately strikes me as more interesting than 'oh, you know that organisation we spent time farting around with two movies in? just a front', that we got in the most recent movie.

[beyondthefringe]

Warren Ellis generally has a small handful of good ideas for any given property, and once he's done, he moves on like the nomad he is, leaving others to pick up where he left off.

Assuming circumstances don't conspire to cause him to leave the project half-done.

[mrstatham]

Oh, no, I'm definitely glad of it. It clearly worked wonders for Moon Knight, who.. Seemed to be in a bit of a rut across the 00's.

[beyondthefringe]

I really like the Ellis version of Moon Knight. That white suit is one of the spiffiest outfits on the market. :)

[kamino_neko]

Hmm...has he dumped any in the middle and not come back to them, aside from newuniversal?

[beyondthefringe]

Just off the top of my head:

Fell
Desolation Jones
Doktor Sleepless
Anna Mercury

Mind you, when I say "circumstances conspire" I mean the universe itself is determined that he not finish some of these. From the FAQ on his website:

"(Brief version.) One day, a few years ago, my backups all got corrupted, and my backup device died. I didn’t have online backups at the time. I’ll fix that on Sunday, I thought, as I was under deadline pressure. Saturday evening, my main machine died in flames. Sent it off for data recovery. The guy running the data recovery shop took it in and then went off to Europe for an operation. And died on the operating table. Came back to the shop to get my machine, because no-one was answering the phone, to find it boarded up, the (mostly off-the-books, apparently) employees scattered to the four winds, and the shop stripped down to the plaster. Not a computer left in there — not even mine. I lost everything, all notes and scripts for work in progress as well as the entire archive."

[shadur]

... Wow.

[dc2houseofmystery]

Ugh, the great computer crash that meant we never saw the end of Doktor Sleepless :(

[adriantullberg]

"Who was that masked man?"

"I don't know, but he's left one hell of a bar tab."