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Today is the late Peter Cushing's birthday so I decided to share a comic featuring Grand Moff Tarkin.
( Scans under the cut... )
cyberghostfaceToday is the late Peter Cushing's birthday so I decided to share a comic featuring Grand Moff Tarkin.
( Scans under the cut... )
knight_movesOkay, I got a few questions about this one in my last post, so I might as well dish. This one involves some mid-level James Bond lore, and I'm talking to an audience of self-professed girls and gays, so I can see I'll have to worldbuild a little (I kid, I kid because I love).
Goldfinger was the third James Bond movie ever and it is the quintessential Bond movie. Dr. No and From Russia With Love were good spy thrillers, but Goldfinger set the tone for what we consider Bond. Beautiful women, crazy gadgets, a colorful madman with a plot to kill millions, a theme song by Shirley Bassey--the Aston Martin DB5 that Connery drives in it is still considered THE Bond car.
Oddjob was Goldfinger's chief henchman. A hulking, ever-silent Korean badass played by professional wrestler Harold Sakata. Random Task from Austin Powers, as you might imagine, was a direct parody of him (and guess where they got the idea for Goldmember). You've seen an action movie, you get the idea. The main villain is just a plotter, so he has one incredibly tough minion who can go toe-to-toe with the hero because as good as they are at gloating, the Alan Cummings of the world aren't exactly a match for an angry Chris Hemsworth. (Girls and gays: okay, you know how Andre the Giant worked for Vizzini in The Princess Bride? Same exact thing.)
Skip ahead to 2019 and Greg Pak. As you're probably aware, Pak has a tendency to either create or promote Korean characters when he's writing a comic. It's usually integrated well enough into the story that it doesn't distract from the plot. The Hulk is palling around with someone, okay, it's a Korean guy.
He gets the gig to write James Bond for Dynamite, which is set in its own loose continuity: Moneypenny and M are both black while Felix Leiter is back to being white, sometimes Bond goes on original adventures and sometimes he lives through 'reimaginings' of the Fleming books, and his characterization tends to vary with the writer from total bastard to secret sweetheart. Add in that Oddjob is the only notable Korean Bond character I can think of, aside from the villains of Die Another Day, and I can see how one wouldn't want to go there.
( Ok, I've talked enough, bring on the scans. )
Goldfinger was the third James Bond movie ever and it is the quintessential Bond movie. Dr. No and From Russia With Love were good spy thrillers, but Goldfinger set the tone for what we consider Bond. Beautiful women, crazy gadgets, a colorful madman with a plot to kill millions, a theme song by Shirley Bassey--the Aston Martin DB5 that Connery drives in it is still considered THE Bond car.
Oddjob was Goldfinger's chief henchman. A hulking, ever-silent Korean badass played by professional wrestler Harold Sakata. Random Task from Austin Powers, as you might imagine, was a direct parody of him (and guess where they got the idea for Goldmember). You've seen an action movie, you get the idea. The main villain is just a plotter, so he has one incredibly tough minion who can go toe-to-toe with the hero because as good as they are at gloating, the Alan Cummings of the world aren't exactly a match for an angry Chris Hemsworth. (Girls and gays: okay, you know how Andre the Giant worked for Vizzini in The Princess Bride? Same exact thing.)
Skip ahead to 2019 and Greg Pak. As you're probably aware, Pak has a tendency to either create or promote Korean characters when he's writing a comic. It's usually integrated well enough into the story that it doesn't distract from the plot. The Hulk is palling around with someone, okay, it's a Korean guy.
He gets the gig to write James Bond for Dynamite, which is set in its own loose continuity: Moneypenny and M are both black while Felix Leiter is back to being white, sometimes Bond goes on original adventures and sometimes he lives through 'reimaginings' of the Fleming books, and his characterization tends to vary with the writer from total bastard to secret sweetheart. Add in that Oddjob is the only notable Korean Bond character I can think of, aside from the villains of Die Another Day, and I can see how one wouldn't want to go there.
( Ok, I've talked enough, bring on the scans. )
