Nobody Lives for Ever

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Nobody Lives for Ever

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the mid-80s and a British spy with a license to kill. The fifth of John Gardner‘s James Bond novels, and what many argue was his best, Nobody Lives for Ever hit shelves between Roger Moore‘s last role as the spy in A View to a Kill and before audiences got their first look at Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights. That timing allows one to play a little with who you see cast in this version of James Bond. While absurd in places (what Bond isn’t?), the novel offers a hell of an intriguing premise by making Bond the hunted when the dying head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. puts an open bounty out for the spy’s head.

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Darth Maul: Black, White, and Red #1

Darth Maul: Black, White, and Red #1

A deviation from the setup these black and white comics have come to follow, Darth Maul: Black, White, and Red #1 is not an anthology series featuring a number of short stories from different creative teams but a single standalone story featuring everyone’s favorite character from The Phantom Menace. The look of the comic is also less stark than many of those that have come before, but still, as suggested, highlights the colors black, white, and especially red.

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X-Men ’97 – Bright Eyes

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X-Men '97 - Bright Eyes

“Bright Eyes” is an odd episode. On one hand seeing an out-of-control Rogue (Lenore Zann) our for revenge provides some great action (certainly the biggest strength of the series) and we also get the other X-Men attending Gabmit‘s (A.J. LoCascio) funeral allowing them some closure. The episode is designed to highlight Rogue, and it does that extremely well both in how powerful she is as a character and how her grief and anger will lead her down a dark path which could cost the X-Men everything.

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