The Times entertainment critic Amanda Craig has scored an early look at the new SilverFin Graphic Novel by Charlie Higson and Kev Walker. Her verdict:
“The first of the Young Bond adaptations by the illustrator Kev Walker, is a bold and brilliant Manga-inspired treat.”
She also offers high praise for By Royal Command. Confessing that she “was not a fan of Charlie Higson's Young Bond series when it began,” Craig says of this latest adventure:
“The plot is ingeniously worked out, with the added amusement of spotting all Bond's future areas of expertise segueing into made-up details about real-life people of the 1930s. I love the descriptions of Eton and the way Higson captures the quintessential self-doubt under the charm. But it is in Bond's first desperate passion for the Irish maid, Roan, that he really springs into life. The descriptions of James's yearning for a young woman who we know is playing a darker game are beautifully written, with the kind of seriousness that teenage boys in the throes of first love deserve, and rarely get. Girls as well as boys will love it.”
I can’t argue with that!
By Royal Command is out now in hardcover. SilverFin: The Graphic Novel will be released on October 2nd.
