James Bond: Casino Royale (James Bond (Graphic Novels))4 reviews
Ian Fleming, Anthony Hern, ...

Titan Books, 2005

More is BETTER not worse

+ as good as the book
+ A Different Approach to Bond

This book is actually really great for comic and 007 lovers alikes. i can not belive this guy gives this book a one star rating just because it gives you extra stories last time i checked extra is BETTER and i thought this guy already has the stories so why is he buying... to collect but if ...
  
  











  



  
Queen & Country, Vol. 1: Operation Broken Ground8 reviews
Greg Rucka

Oni Press, 2002

The British "Alias" (without the soap-opera drama)

+ "That's my girl"
+ Shades of Gray Written in Black & White
+ VERY high quality work
+ Absolutely, unbelievably good!!!!
  
  











  



  
Queen & Country, Vol. 6: Operation Dandelion
Greg Rucka, Mike Hawthorne

Oni Press, 2004

Every job has its office politics, but when you're a spy in service to your queen and your country, the politics in play take on a much larger scale. When the chief of S.I.S. is forced into retirement by a stroke, Head of Operations Paul Crocker is forced to play a new game in order to keep his good standing and his job. But are agents Tara Chace and Tom Wallace prepared to be Crocker's pawns in ...
  
  











  



  
Whiteout: Melt2 reviews
Greg Rucka

Oni Press, 2000

Great follow-up to the original

+ Good -- But Not Quite as Great as the 1st

Whiteout: Melt exceeded my expectations for a "sequel". It's a great story about Carrie; an U.S. Marshall assigned to the coldest territory on Earth. While it is a cold and gritty spy/crime story, there's actually a little romance for our female Marshall. Greg Rucka (Keeper, Finder, Batman: No ...
  
  











  



  
Meanwhile...: A Biography of Milton Caniff, Creator of Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon7 reviews
R.C. Harvey

Fantagraphics Books, 2007

A must read for any student, reader or fan of the comics medium.

+ Much More Than A Comic Strip
+ Meanwhile...Inside the life, times, and genius of Milton Caniff
+ Milt Caniff bio
+ Platinum Standard for Cartoonist Biographies
  
  











  



  
Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 19542 reviews
Milton Caniff

Checker Book Publishing Group, 2007

Another year of Canyon

+ Steve is the 50's

This volume is some 30 pages shorter than the previous one and covers almost exactly one year's worth of strips in three adventures. The stories are page-turners, and Caniff stretches a little at times, but his storytelling imagination is certainly fertile. The artwork is superb with ...
  
  











  



  
James Bond: Trouble Spot (James Bond (Graphic Novels))
Jim Lawrence

Titan Books, 2007

Stand by for more adventures with the world's greatest secret agent, as some of his most thrilling missions are collected for the first time ever! When Bond is called in to investigate a mysterious `box' which has gone missing after the murder of its owner, Mike Channing, he becomes involved with a beautiful, deadly young adventuress — and the nefarious Baron Sharck! Can 007 avoid betrayal ...
  
  











  



  
Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1950 (Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon Series) (Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon Series)1 review
Milton Caniff

Checker Book Publishing Group, 2006

You do, ducky!

This volume, covering 1950 (the year the Korean War began), is the fourth in the Canyon series, which begins in 1947. I have reviewed each of the three earlier instalments. Much has been said about the cinematic technique in comics but, as Horn's "World Encyclopedia of Comics" (WEC) points out, ...
  
  











  



  
James Bond: Dr. No (James Bond (Graphic Novels))1 review
Ian Fleming, Peter O'Donnell, ...

Titan Books, 2005

BOND COMIC STRIPS BACK IN PRINT!

I was somewhat surprised to learn that the adventures of James Bond had appeared in comic strip format in England. I supposed I shouldn't have been...after all James Bond is certainly as revered a character to the English as Superman is to Americans. That's why I really love Titan books! They ...
  
  











  



  
James Bond: On Her Majesty's Secret Service3 reviews
Ian Fleming, Henry Gammidge

Titan Books, 2004

A fantastic volume - not one, but two Bond novels

+ A faithful presentation of classic Ian Fleming storytelling
+ One of the best novels- a GREAT Titan book!

I was very excited to hear that Titan was set to deliver even more editions of the James Bond strips that appeared in the pages of The Daily Express in the 1960s and even more pleased to hear that two of my favorite Fleming books - 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' and 'You Only Live Twice' were ...
  
  











  



  
Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1953 (Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon Series) (Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon Series)1 review
Milton Caniff

Checker Book Publishing Group, 2006

The best of the series so far

I was getting a little bored with the domestic side of Steve Canyon, but a teaser at the end of the previous volume promised foreign intrigue, and the first adventure in this volume delivers. We revisit the series' antihero, whom I will not identify, a perfect foil of a sort to Canyon. I ...
  
  











  



  
James Bond: Octopussy1 review
Ian Fleming, James Lawrence

Titan Books, 2004

Adaptations that would make Fleming proud

Octopussy, the short story by Ian Fleming is a great little story about James Bond paying a visit to a man who murdered one of his friends 20 years earlier and "taking care" of him. It's short, sweet, not too confusing and filled with Flemings trademark, quality writing. As a comic strip, which ...
  
  











  



  
James Bond: Colonel Sun (James Bond)3 reviews
Kingsley Amis

Titan Books, 2006

An absolute "must-have" for all dedicated James Bond fans

+ Thanks for the non-Fleming titles

Latest in a series of James Bond daily strip collections, James Bond 007: Colonel Sun by the team of Kingsley Amis, Jim Lawrence, and Yaroslav Horak is a graphic novel compilation of black-and-white daily newspaper strips that adapted Ian Fleming's classic James Bond action-adventure story "River ...
  
  











  



  
Queen & Country, Vol. 5: Operation Stormfront1 review
Greg Rucka, Carla Speed McNeil

Oni Press, 2004

Visceral action in Greg Rucka's spy-thriller classic

"Operation Storm Front" is the fifth volume of Greg Rucka's "Queen And Country" series, reprinting issues #16-20 of this increasingly dense, gripping spy-thriller saga. This is the best storyline to date, a tense, grippingly violent story that revolves around a kidnapping in the former Soviet ...
  
  











  



  
Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1947 (Steve Canyon Series) (Steve Canyon Series)6 reviews
Milton Caniff

Checker Book Publishing Group, 2004

Caniff was such a master!

+ Two-fisted action, '40s style
+ Perfect
+ A hard copy of the late forties
+ Steve Canyon was a classic strip
  
  











  



  
Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 19511 review
Milton Caniff

Checker Book Publishing Group, 2006

The fifth year in the Canyon series

After four volumes and now this, the fifth, in the Steve Canyon series, it is a pleasure to come back to this now familiar strip. The 750+ pages I have read so far have put Caniff's exotic and far flung creations firmly in my head. At 2½ pages per week, Canyon's 41-year run would come to 5,300 ...
  
  











  



  
Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1948 (Steve Canyon Series)1 review
Milton Caniff

Checker Book Publishing Group, 2003

Excellence 2.0

There are five, not four, adventures in this issue. The first of these begins in the 1947 edition and is about one month old when this issue begins. I've been reading several series in parallel lately: Canyon, Cerebus, Sandman, Krazy Kat. Apart from Sandman, they're great entertainment but, ...
  
  











  



  
Queen & Country, Vol. 3: Operation Crystal Ball1 review
Greg Rucka, Leandro Fernandez

Oni Press, 2003

The British spook house sets up shop in Iraq

"Operation Crystal Ball": The continuing adventures of British secret agent Tara Chase find her, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, enmeshed in the politics of Middle Eastern terrorism. One member of her group paratroops into Iraq on a covert mission, while Chase heads elsewhere, with explosive ...
  
  











  



  
Steve Canyon (Special Edition)9 reviews
Dean Fredericks, Marion Ross

The Milton Caniff Estate (Tempe Video), 2008

Fantastic Beyond Expectations

+ Steve Canyon returns from my youth!
+ High Flight in Black and White
+ Great on so many levels
+ J. LeBlanc
  
  











  



  
Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1949 (Steve Canyon Series)1 review
Milton Caniff

Checker Book Publishing Group, 2004

High adventure and jingoism

My reviews for the first two issues of Checker's Steve Canyon series would suggest that my mind is made up in advance in its favour. Actually, the strip has a couple of strikes against it: 1) the hero is a little bland and too iconically good for my tastes and 2) while patriotism may have its ...