The comic will commence with a 17-year old Bond in March 1941, when he was a student at Fettes College in Edinburgh, Scotland. History and fiction will collide when Bond is visiting an old family friend as the Clydebank Blitz happens, sending the young man into a baptism of fire.
“It’s a weighty challenge to reverse-engineer this icon into a young man on a life’s journey of danger, but [editor] Nate Cosby paired me up with Bob Q, who not only brings the gravitas of war in 1941 Europe, but nails the promising hero in his youth,” Parker said in a statement. “James doesn’t have the vast experience of a double-O agent yet, but he’s tenacious and a lightning-quick study. Bob and I work to show the full force of Bond’s spirit.”
This isn’t the first comic to explore the teenage years of Ian Fleming’s James Bond: Charlie Higson’s Young Bond novel SilverFin, was turned into a graphic novel by Kev Walker in 2008. Dynamite’s take starts in September: until then, head over to CBR to check out the variant covers by Walker, John Cassaday, David Mack, Gene Ha, and Ibrahim Moustafa.
