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  • James Bond: Hammerhead #3



    James Bond: Hammerhead #3
    Released by: Dynamite Entertainment
    Released on: December 14th,2016.
    Written by: Andy Diggle
    Illustrated by: Luca Casalanguida
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    When Victoria Hunt wakes up on her plane, James is nowhere to be seen. She sees a news alert on her phone about a Royal Navy air crash. Outside, Bond is taking of some business when she comes out to him in a panic - she has to leave Yemen now, the crash was related to her facility and with her father now gone, this is going to land on her to deal with. Bond sends her on her way and heads into a nearby warehouse where he picks up his car.

    As he drives across Yemen, he talks to Bill Tanner via video link. Tanner tells him that the car has been fitted by Q-Branch and then discuss the matter at hand. Yemen's security forces have agreed to hold back in hopes that Bond can help take out some AQAP members but he needs to take care of all of this quickly to avoid an international incident. And so he does. He drives to the safehouse he's been alerted to where two armed thugs quit their card game to investigate a noise. Bond makes his way in, takes out the first one and quizzes the second about their ties to Kraken. It doesn't go well, however Bond gets his hands on their laptop and manages to get lucky with a guess on the password.

    He reports back to HQ with some info - the assassination of Victoria Hunt's father was just the start, Kraken are trying to get 'something' to a Yemeni smuggler named Karim Malfakhar. Bond is told that the helicopter that went down, the one Victoria went back to deal with, was carrying a W88 Tident Warhead and that said warhead was not recovered from the crash site. Bond knows where the smuggler operates - Zinjibar - and he heads over there directly to see what he can find. And then that car, the one that was all tricked out for him? It overrides his clearance and turns on him…

    Lots of action in this one. Reality might be thrown out the window a little bit and that lucky password guess seems like a bit of a stretch but the pacing here is good and the action scenes deliver. Diggle writes a nice, tough script. He's not messing around, and neither is Bond. Everyone's favorite secret agent is in mission mode here, out to get the job done no matter the cost. He knows they don't have much time and that there could be serious repercussions should he fail. This issue is all about his drive, his ambition. We know when he sends Victoria on her way that she's a bit hurt he doesn't even ask her if she's ok or offer to help. It's because he is so single minded in his motivations. The character development here is interesting in that way. Their relationship - does it means something to him or was it just a bit of fun to keep him busy in his downtime?

    Casalanguida's artwork is pretty impressive. Thick line work keeps the action moving, there's good fluidity here and the backgrounds are nicely rendered. The scene where Bond up against the car is over the top, but it's played straight as far as the visuals go and it works. The coloring from Chris Blythe complements the art quite nicely and once again we get a cover piece from Francesco Francavilla that is just the icing on the cake.





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