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Nobody Lives for Ever

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Nobody Lives for Ever

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the mid-80s and a British spy with a license to kill. The fifth of John Gardner‘s James Bond novels, and what many argue was his best, Nobody Lives for Ever hit shelves between Roger Moore‘s last role as the spy in A View to a Kill and before audiences got their first look at Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights. That timing allows one to play a little with who you see cast in this version of James Bond. While absurd in places (what Bond isn’t?), the novel offers a hell of an intriguing premise by making Bond the hunted when the dying head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. puts an open bounty out for the spy’s head.

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James Bond 007 #1

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James Bond 007 #1

A new volume of James Bond begins here. Kicking off the new series from writer Garth Ennis and artist Rapha Lobosco we start with a brutal James Bond killing off an entire crime family for good measure and wrapping up his latest assignment before returning to England to learn what new trouble MI6 has found for their most famous agent. This one involves water. No, really.

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007: For King and Country #6

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007: For King and Country #6

The six-issue mini-series 007: For King and Country concludes with James Bond dealing with the betrayal of his former Gwendolyn Gann who has used both Bond and Felix Leiter to stage not a takedown of Myrmidon but a hostile takeover with Gann the new power behind the throne believing she can use the power for good. Foreshadowed throughout the series, it’s no surprise it came down to the old friends on opposite sides in the end.

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007: For King and Country #5

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007: For King and Country #5

007: For King and Country #5 opens with a trigger-happy 009 and an assassination attempt James Bond barely survives in an action sequence that cover several pages. Unfortunately, Agent Clark isn’t so lucky. After that, it’s up to Bond to rally the troops once more in another attempt to take down Fromm and Myrmidon with his small support group of Felix Leiter, Linus, and Gwendolyn Gann, but with so much on the line, who can Bond truly trust as the series moves one-step closer to its conclusion?

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007: For King and Country #3

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The first-half of 007: For King and Country #3 deals with James Bond‘s rescue of Gwendolyn Gann which she then needs to immediately return the favor as Bond gets pinned down by 006 in helping to clear her escape. It’s from 006 the comic introduces the idea that there’s some looming secret Gann is keeping from Bond, which will be further suggested at the end of the issue as well.

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