Now, Bond is culturally significant enough that even someone who’s been living under a spy thriller rock like I have knows that his agent number is 007, he’s a British secret agent with a license to kill, he likes martinis and sex, and his stories are set in the Cold War. At least, this is what I’ve gathered.

Now, I have seen all the Indiana Jones films (although Temple of Doom sucked, okay? It just…sucked). But I’m also a sucker for Harrison Ford’s lopsided smile.

You can spoof a spoof, I think, otherwise why would it be so popular to do so? At least, I’m used to seeing it because my br–I mean, those guys I know seem to think it’s hilarious.

I also understand what you mean by “cartoon” not “comic,” and I will attempt to explain to Delos:

History! “Cartoon” originally meant nothing like what it means today. It originally meant “low-quality drawing.” It’s a step up from a sketch. A sketch is an incomplete idea, while the cartoon is the full idea, waiting to be transferred into the final medium (fresco, oil painting, tapestry, etc). They were called “cartoons” because of the kind of paper they were drawn on (Italian: “cartone”). With the onset of modern printing, cartoon drawings became a lot more prevalent as a finished artform, and often appeared in magazines and newspapers as gag-strips, usually political (we still call them Editorial Cartoons). Early animation and early comic strips were drawn in a similar style, and both were called “cartoons”. Creators of comic strips are still called “cartoonists”. As both forms developed, Americans, as we are want to do, wanted different terms for each form and started calling the animation “cartoon” and the static strip form “comic”. In the UK, however, I believe there is still no distinction. Both are “cartoons” and “comic” refers to “comic book.” As I understand it, at least.

As an aside I’m a huge fan of the books - a product of the fifties, not so much the movies - a product of the sixties. It’s only a few years but a huge cultural gulf. A spoof like Austin Powers relies on the movies but can’t even get close to the books. And it one of the reasons I love Daniel Craig in the role. He really captures the obsessive suicidal bitter unreconstructed thug that Bond is (was).

In terms of the cartoony aspect -The cartoon feel you are getting is absolutely intentional. At first, when the I.C.A. was mandated to declassify records, I suggested we make a cartoon, however, due to budgeting and production costs - it wasn’t a realistic endeavor. So I think you are entirely right in saying it has cartoon and as Delos points out a storyboard feel to it. We are ::hoping:: and I can’t stress hope enough, that at some point we’ll be able to convert some of these comics into animated shorts - and do both comic and animation - but that is still far far down the road.

At any rate, I hope that if you take a second look, maybe you’ll see some of the merits and we won’t drive you to “not actually liking webcomics anymore”.

Thank you again for taking the time to do the review. It is always a pleasure to read about somebody’s experience with our comic and the I.C.A. and I know the staff appreciates it!

It’s certainly has a different feel than most comics. I wonder if it has something to do with the coloring?