James Bond is a line of spy action thriller comic books published by Dynamite Entertainment based on the famous super spy, James Bond.
Comics include:
- James Bond (2015-2016)
- James Bond: Hammerhead (2016) - Bond investigates a mysterious anti-capitalist called Kraken who threatens Britain's nuclear arsenal.
- James Bond: Felix Leiter (2017)
- James Bond: Black Box (2017)
- James Bond: Service (2017)
- James Bond: Kill Chain (2017)
- James Bond: Moneypenny (2017)
- James Bond: Solstice (2017)
- James Bond: The Body (2018)
- James Bond: M (2018)
- James Bond: Casino Royale (2017) - Adaptation of Casino Royale
- James Bond Origin (2018-2019) - An origins series about a teen Bond set during WW2
- James Bond 007 (2018-2019)
- James Bond (2019-2020)
- James Bond: Live and Let Die (2020) - Adaptation of Live and Let Die
- James Bond: Reflections of Death (2020)
- James Bond: Agent of SPECTRE (2021)
- James Bond: Himeros (2021)
- James Bond 007 (2022)
General tropes include:
- Artificial Limbs: Kurjak not only makes state of the art prosthetic limbs, he requires them himself for his missing left appendages. His security chief Dharma Reach as well; she lost both forearms cooking up an IED to kill her USMC superiors for investigating her cruelty to POWs. Felix Leiter shows up in Eidolon wearing Kurjak models, for the hand and leg lost to a shark attack in Live and Let Die.
- Balls of Steel: Bryan Masters doesn't react to a Groin Attack from Bond.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Two rogue CIA agents taken out by Bond in Eidolon are clearly modeled after John Cena and The Rock (specifically Rocky circa 2000 before he first shaved his head).
- Da Chief: M is a very British variant, mulling over shutting down the 00 program and making snide, cutting remarks about Bond's performance.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Beckett Hawkwood's motivation for turning traitor; half his face was burned beyond repair while serving his country, and not once was his photo in the papers. Appealing to his desire for recognition is how Bond ultimately neutralizes him, convincing Hawkwood that the game is up and the only way to salvage his reputation and be remembered as a hero is to kill himself.
- Exact Words: While acting as Bond's informant in Berlin, Slaven Kurjak tells Bond that he lost his left arm and leg "in the Serbian concentration camps in the 1990s"; it's explained later that he wasn't imprisoned there, he was a young member of the staff who liked to watch disease spread among the prisoners from their contaminated water source. How specifically he lost the limbs goes unelaborated on either way.
- Fallen Hero: Hawkwood was a decorated war hero who felt his work wasn’t adequately appreciated, rewarded.
- Feel No Pain: inverted; Bryan Masters suffers from anhedonia, an inability to process pleasure. It's not even that he's numb to pleasurable sensation, it actually hurts him. Kurjak promises he can cure him if he kills James Bond. He also seems highly resistant to physical pain — among other things, he grabs a large shard of glass to use as a knife, paying no heed to his hand heavily bleeding from gripping it too tightly. Gouging his eyes got his attention at one point, though.
- Giant Mook: A huge musclebound woman previously seen lifting weights accosts Bond at the climax of "Vargyr."
- Leave Behind a Pistol: The climax of the second story arc has Bond convincing Hawkwood to kill himself before authorities arrive, handing over his small pocket knife for the purpose.
- Little Useless Gun: In Vargr, just about everyone Bond comes across gets a comment in about his Walther being too small for the job. It's suggested that Bond doesn't opt for a bigger caliber (or a hard leather holster) because he doesn't want his piece to spoil the silhouette of his suit.
- Never Bring A Knife To A Gunfight: "The Hard Rule", which prevents MI6 agents from carrying firearms within the United Kingdom, is extended to the 00 program by the traitorous head of MI5, who doesn't want to face any armed response to his plans. Bond is thus only allowed a small folding knife, with his Walther shipped ahead of him in a diplomatic pouch when he goes abroad.
- Overt Operative: The first thing Dharma Reach does when Bond gets in the car with her is tell him her real name and try to explain why she doesn’t sound very English for an SIS agent.
- The Paranoiac: In Vargr, Bond notes that Kurjak was so paranoid about being exposed he blew his own operation anyway.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Bryan Masters is an escaped psychiatric patient and seems very childish and immature. When he kills everyone at the Berlin SIS station he realizes too late that Bond isn't there. He panics, desperately asking one of the bodies with their brains splattered on the walls why Bond wasn't there and where to find him. He also has a curiously limited vocabulary.
- Race Lift: M is portrayed as a black man for the first time.
- Ripped from the Headlines: The story was about 11 years old at the time of publication, but Dharma Reach's backstory as a guard at a POW camp in Iraq who subjected the prisoners to torture is based on accounts of gross mistreatment and torture at Abu Ghraib, the most visible perpetrator of which was a woman named Lynndie England.
- Rogue Agent: Beckett Hawkwood, the villain of the second volume, is the ringleader of a rogue MI5 cell
- Running Gag: In the original series, everyone gets their shots in at Bond's Walther.
- Setting Update: With the exception of Origin and the adaptations, the series have a contemporary setting with few pieces of advanced tech rather then the Cold War setting of the novels.
- Trick Bullet: To compensate for the lacking stopping power of Bond's Walther, Q devises bullets that fragment into smaller projectiles on impact — one entrance wound, seven exit wounds. They're said to bounce off body armor but any hit on a soft target will render the enemy "unable to respond", to put it lightly.
- Two-Faced: Hawkwood is hideously scarred on the left side of his face, a grim souvenir from his last tour of duty in the SAS. He jokes that he was surprised that MI5 recruited him; standing out in a crowd as he does, he doesn't fit the profile of a "security service spook." Bitterness over feeling his sacrifice went unrewarded drove him to fall in with SPECTRE, forming Eidolon.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Bond can’t quite place Dharma Reach’s accent; she claims her family moved from Bristol to Vermont when she was young, but Bond seems to think she was just a born American covering for a poor accent.
Tropes in Hammerhead include:
- Arms Dealer: Hunt Engineering is Britain's leading arms manufacturer, making billions by selling to British and Middle Eastern governments, including replacing the Trident nuclear missiles.
- Exploding Fish Tanks: The Hunt Gala that Bond attends to guard the Hunts is held at a an aquarium, giving two examples:
- When Kraken mercenaries snipe at Bernard Hunt, they shoot out a glass wall, drenching the attendees in water.
- Bond and Victoria is confronted by one of the mercenaries in a shark tunnel, Bond shoots out the glass to surprise the mercenary with a torrent of killer shark filled water.
- Explosive Leash: The hacker working for Kraken has a collar that explodes when he about give information about his employer.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In a double example, Bond is able to use to the chip implanted in Bond's car by Kraken to turn Kraken's own Hammerhead cannon back on them.
- Magnetic Weapons: The Hammerhead is a giant rail-gun that can fire a projectile at a target 2000 miles away and be adapted to carry a nuclear payload.
- Murder by Remote Control Vehicle: After Bond finds out information about Kraken's operations in Yemen, his spy car's autopilot is hijacked and tries to kill Bond with the various spy gadgets and driving off a cliff.
Tropes in Himeros include:
- Ripped from the Headlines: The series starts with a billionaire financier dying in his cell after being arrested for trafficking underage children to an island similarly to Jeffrey Epstein's death after being arrested for the same thing.
