A couple of years ago they started releasing a new James Bond graphic novel series. I have read the first couple of them and I was not all that impressed. Because of this, I did not have high hopes for Hammerhead.I was pleasantly surprised! This has been the best of the series so far by far! I enjoyed both the story and the art quite a lot. The action really had the essence of both the book and the movie series. It felt like coming home.One big thing with James Bond is that it has to be the righ...

Andy Diggle and Luca Casalanguida continues Dynamite's great run of James Bond comics. You get everything you'd expect from a Bond film, gun fights, maniacal villains, exotic locales, beautiful women. Luca Casalanguida may be a newcomer to the scene but I'm guessing we'll be seeing more of his artwork soon. It's great.Received and advance copy from Dynamite and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Not quite up to par with Warren Ellis' work on the title, though for most of its running time, Diggle's story isn't terrible. Still, it is a bit needlessly complicated, and ultimately builds to an endgame that just doesn't make a lot of sense: somehow, destroying London will strengthen the British empire? What the what? Nice art from Luca Casalanguida, though it might have been nice to see what Diggle himself could have turned in artwise. Still, this is a fairly strong entry in this series. Inte...

Hammerhead was ok. An organization called KRAKEN has stolen a nuclear missile and plans to nuke England. But all is not as it seems and there might be someone or something else behind it. Things really come to a header when M, the Defense Minister and Moneypenny end up getting kidnapped.This could have been really good, but the plot is rather hokey. The smuggler with a heart of gold (also this 60 yr old throws a combat knife 25 yards to spear someone? yeah?), the beautiful blonde he has to sleep...

Diggle and Casalanguida‘s Hammerhead is an impressive, and adventure-packed, follow-up to Ellis’s first magnificent volume of Dynamite’s James Bond series.

I like the story well enough. Cool, Bond-esque action. I think the dialog could be better. There's one scene where a couple of bad guys talk to each other in broken English, but of course they would actually speak to each other fluently in their native language.The line art is fine-to-good (although sometimes too cartoonish for the material, for my taste), but I do not like the colors. One specific feature I dislike is the heavy use of Photoshop gradients. And this bugs me: in one scene we see a...

James Bond: Hammerhead (Hardcover) by Andy Diggle James Bond is the man of action, he has all the skills but it is those who support him like Money Penny that will show that he has a mission and a reason to be alive. For when James Bond finds that not all villains are easy to recognize it is Money Penny that saves him in the end.

Great, as always. I find it amazing that a graphic novel can convey the style, elegance and action of the James Bond universe. The story was creative and well plotted. You read these books and feel like you're in a movie. I highly recommend them all!

Spinning off from Warren Ellis’ James Bond series, creators Andy Diggle and Luca Casalanguida take 007 on a new adventure in Hammerhead. A villain called Kraken is targeting Britain’s nuclear arsenal with plans to wipe out London - here comes Bond to save the day! Bah da bah baah, bah da daah!This was great! Diggle ticks all the Bond boxes with effortless style and panache: dramatically-named villain and evil organisation, exotic locations, lots of violence involving guns and death, dry martinis...

"My friends call me 'Tory.'" -- Victoria Hunt"Then I'd hate to hear what your enemies call you." -- James Bond"I have no enemies." [pause] "None remain." -- Hunt"Clearly you're a force to be reckoned with . . . " -- BondThis installment the 007 graphic novel series, Hammerhead, now features DC and Marvel veteran Andy Diggle at the helm, taking over the reigns from reliable scribe Warren Ellis after the excellent two previous volumes. The only really noticeable changes in tone are an uptick in th...

Andy Diggle and Luca Casalanguida pick up the third volume after the two Warren Ellis-Jason Masters volumes. The first was that team’s feeling their way into how to do Bond in a contemporary world, and with the second volume they figured it out. This third volume I like second best of the three, maybe 3.75. Casalanguida’s art work has Bondish flair. I love Francesco Francavilla's classy covers. The story—Ooh, Kraken, a conservative organization, plans to nuke London?--is not really all tat memor...

I received this from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. Really digging this minimalist approach to James Bond. Story is good, artwork is good. More, please!

Would have been near perfect if not for the villain's feeble motivations and weird plan to go there (view spoiler)[what use is nuking London to "make Britain great again"? (hide spoiler)].Apart from that Hammerhead is a very solid action-packed book. Diggle portrays a very decent Bond- for once not totally alone to pursue his mission- and maintains fast pace throughout. Moneypenny is close to the latest movies of the series (Craig's) and agreeably surprised me as being more than simply M's girl...

This is the third volume in Diggle's new take on Bond and was just as good as I had been expecting. This is a great series and this volume is action-packed from start to finish. There isn't a lot of characterization (we all know the main peeps anyway, don't we?) as the story focuses on plot and action; lots of action. I love this Bond! He's modern set in a modern world but very much the classic, smooth, no bars held Bond of yesteryear. The lady villain is so very much a wonderful "Bond Girl". Th...

You know how some James Bond action sequences are absolutely, over-the-top, spectacular and impossible yet they are presented as realistic and Bond doesn’t react emotionally in the slightest, just delivers a horrible pun and goes on with his life? This book embraces that to the Nth degree and I loved it for that. This was my favorite one yet in this series. There are great character moments for M and Moneypenny as well.It seems like the art teams on this series have a basic image for Bond, but t...

I got this as part of the Bond comics Humble Bundle, which I'm working my way through when I remember I own it. I wasn't quite on board with the way Bond is drawn, and the story was fairly straightforward, but the occasional line of dialogue, and the final scene, was so spot on it made me grin.

Trying to work out if this is the first graphic novel I've ever reviewed. It might well be!I'm a huge Bond fan, both the books and movies, so it was interesting to see how well it translated to the graphic novel format. Have to say I was impressed - a very authentic-feeling Bond story, plenty of action and nice one-liners thrown in.Will definitely be looking out for more of these in future.

I had a lot of fun with this book. Andy Diggle of Green Arrow: Year One fame has taken over writing duty of the James Bond series from Warren Ellis. The book right away feels different but still carries the cinematic tone that one would expect reading a James Bond comic book. I did have a little gripe with the book. I just felt that the plot and the villain's identity in the story was just a little to predictable. This did not completely ruin my enjoyment of the book. This comic has some of the

I enjoyed this compilation of the James Bond comics. The art was suited to the story and it hit every James Bond requirements from miraculous rescues, sexy women, and lots of explosions.Bond is after Kraken an anti capitalist organization who is invested in Hunt Enterprises and their deadly weapons. Bond travels the world to take down the villain.I can say that I was glad to read it as a graphic novel instead of individuals issues. The issues ending wouldn't have made m e anticipate the next iss...

I greatly enjoyed the plot line of Hammerhead. It felt like the Bond I grew up with and enjoyed. Great artwork as always. Can't wait to see where they take Bond next in Blackbox.