JAMES BOND: VARGR

In October 2014, Dynamite Entertainment announced plans to publish monthly James Bond comics as part of a ten-year licensing deal with Ian Fleming Publications in 2015. Warren Ellis was asked by the Fleming Estate to be the writer, and he requested Jason Masters be the artist. Their first six issue story, VARGR, was announced July 2015. Ellis read all the Fleming novels to prepare for the book, and he named Risico as a particular influence. Masters based his design for Bond on Fleming's descriptions, an illustration commissioned by Fleming, and the work of John McLusky, the first artist to draw Bond in a comic. When asked about the meaning of the title, Ellis explained "VARGR is an Old Norse word meaning variously wolf, evildoer or destroyer."

The first was published November 4, 2015 to coincide with the release of Spectre and offered nine variant covers. It was the 69th best selling issue of the month with estimated orders of 35,600.[8] A hardcover collection of the first six issues was released June 21, 2016.

The same day the hardcover was released, Dynamite published the first chapter of Ellis and Masters' follow-up story, Eidolon. as issue #7. The comic features a modern twist on SPECTRE, an evil organization Bond has previously encountered in both novels and films. Ellis developed the plot after reading Umberto Eco's Numero Zero.

On 5 October 2016, Dynamite announced that writer Benjamin Percy is set to pen a story for a future installment in the monthly series, taking over from Warren Ellis. Two months later, the title was unveiled as Black Box, which oddly enough resets the issue numbering of the eponymous James Bond series from that of the 2015 run. The art is illustrated by Rapha Lobosco, and the comic made its debut on 1 March 2017 as James Bond (2017) issue #1. With the development of the story and the elements used in the first issue, Percy told he was influenced by the film series in writing the structure of the story, The Spy Who Loved Me and Spectre being the most of the recognizable citations, while reflecting on the inner thoughts of Bond's psychology he claims to have derived from the novels.

On 16 July 2018, a new ongoing series was announced with Greg Pak and Marc Laming at the helm (Colorist - Rosh, Letterer - Ariana Maher), of which the first story arc is to feature a new iteration of Oddjob envisioned as a Korean secret agent rivaling that of Bond in the field.

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