The nominations for this year’s Wizard Fan Awards have been posted, and does little more than reflect the narrow focus of that magazine and its readership on mainstream books featuring men-in-tights.
But this category caught my eye.
FAVORITE COMIC MOVIE PROJECT
- V for Vendetta (Warner Bros)
X-Men: The Last Stand (Fox)
Art School Confidential (Sony)
Superman Returns (Warner Bros)
Casino Royale (MGM).
Sorry, what was that last one again?
Casino Royale !!
Boy calling that a "comic movie project" is one hell of a stretch.
Sure there was a comic strip adaptation done in the UK’s Daily Express newspaper back in 1958, and since translated and reprinted in several other countries, and it was even imported into the US as part of the current Titan Books reprint collection.
But that’s the only time 007’s initial outing has been anywhere near an existence in panel form.