James Bond: 007 #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeJames Bond: 007 #2 (2024) is the second chapter of Garth Ennis's inaugural Bond story arc, 'Your Cold, Cold Heart,' which itself was commissioned as the centerpiece of Dynamite Entertainment's tenth anniversary of publishing James Bond comics — making the entire six-issue run a deliberate milestone in the character's comic-book history. Ennis, drawing more from Ian Fleming's literary Bond than from the film franchise, brings a noticeably darker and more visceral sensibility to 007 than any previous Dynamite arc, pushing the boundary of how the character is rendered in the comics medium. This issue is also the issue that first propels Bond's mission into outer space — a narrative escalation that critic commentary repeatedly compared to the Roger Moore film era while acknowledging Ennis was doing something tonally distinct — marking a memorable, eccentric moment in the character's sequential-art storytelling. Taken together with its parent series, issue #2 represents a significant creative statement about what kind of stories are possible with Bond in comics form, unshackled from film-franchise expectations.
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The 2024 James Bond: 007 series was announced in late 2023 as Dynamite's flagship celebration of a decade of Bond comics published under license from Ian Fleming Publications, which granted Dynamite its rights beginning in 2014. Dynamite recruited Garth Ennis — a British writer already known for Preacher, The Boys, Punisher, and Hellblazer — specifically because of his roots in Bond's home country and his track record with morally complex, ultra-violent genre fiction. Artist Rapha Lobosco, who had previously illustrated Benjamin Percy's Black Box arc for Dynamite, was brought back to the Bond universe for the series, while Eisner Award-winning cover artist Dave Johnson provided all cardstock covers across the six issues. Issue #2 went on sale February 21, 2024, and the complete arc was subsequently collected in a hardcover edition released in November 2024.
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- Issue #2 is part two of the six-part arc 'Your Cold, Cold Heart,' written by Garth Ennis — his first-ever James Bond story.
- Interior art is by Rapha Lobosco, a returning Dynamite Bond artist previously known for the Black Box arc; covers are by Eisner Award-winner Dave Johnson.
- The issue was published February 21, 2024, by Dynamite Entertainment as part of the publisher's tenth-anniversary James Bond publishing celebration.
- In this issue, Bond — stranded without his car after it was destroyed in #1 — debriefs Moneypenny while riding a public bus, then survives an ambush by a kill squad on foot.
- The issue ends with Bond receiving orders to track scientist Stephen Vickers to the International Space Station, escalating the arc's central Stalvoda bio-weapon plot into orbit.
- Archibald Tryon, the retired former MI6 double-0 agent and primary antagonist introduced in issue #1, continues to drive the overarching conspiracy plot; he is a wholly original character created by Ennis for this series.
- The arc's central MacGuffin is a Cold War-era Soviet weapon codenamed Stalvoda ('Steel Water' in Russian), stolen from the British Ministry of Defence's Porton Down facility.
- The complete six-issue 'Your Cold, Cold Heart' arc — including this issue — was collected in a hardcover edition released November 2024.
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