James Bond #5

James Bond stands gun in hand, framed quite literally within an ornate golden picture frame, flanked by a bust of Nefertiti and a classical Greco-Roman helmeted sculpture on a checkerboard floor — Afua Richardson's cover composition is a quietly clever study in stolen or smuggled antiquities and the spy who moves among them. Dynamite's 2020 series brings Ian Fleming's 007 to comics with a fresh creative team, with writers Vita Ayala and Danny Lore steering the story and Brent Peeples handling interior art. This fifth issue promises the kind of cultured intrigue that has always made Bond such compelling territory.