Roland King from King of Spies had no such major betrayal over the course of his career, effectively coded as a retired James Bond. It's also weird that the MC doesn't seem to care about collateral damage - he'll blow up the restaurant a bad man is in, and not just take out the bad man. Scalera is best known for his work on series like Batman, Secret Avengers, White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn and Space Bandits.

Pick this up if you like Mark Millar books or anything James Bond related, and skip if you are anyone else. There are only four chapters in this mini, and I just don't see how Millar is going to have enough space to pull this thing around and make it work. Instead of feeling bad for the guy when he is diagnosed with a terminal illness, I instead felt like it was a form of karmatic justice being done. Perhaps Roland King’s self-loathing in this story is Millar’s own cry for help over where his writing career has taken him. Channeling the spirit of Bond, a young Roland King looks dashing and lets the quips fly as he leaps and shoots his way through a series of soldiers and assassins.But, it is so much more than this as Mark Millar and Matteo Scalera gives us a man who begins to question his past and the actions he took out of duty to Queen and country. Depressing and distasteful, this comic followed an unlikeable retired spy who acted abominably during his prime and as an old man spent his days drinking and berating his past self for actions he couldn’t change. Given his limited time on Earth, King has set his sights on taking down as many of the planet's corrupt “presidents and kings” as possible. So it was with a great deal of trepidation that I read the first issue of Millar’s newest title King of Spies. The first is by the amazing Ozgur Yildirim, whom I’m an enormous fan of, and the second is by Mark Chiarello, who’s an absolute genius.

He is completely alone, with no family or true friends beyond other former spies he sees at his social club. A seventh-grade dropout, he created his own black-ops empire, commanding a small army of hand-selected spies, deploying his own makeshift navy, and ruling over it as a clandestine king, with absolute power over life and death. Musician Toby Keith once sang "this big dog will fight when you rattle his cage", and with King of Spies a fierce hellhound is off the chain and gunning for those who have escaped their reckoning for way too long. So listen up, all the presidents and kings, all you crooks on your thrones - you're going to pay for wasting my life like this. His commanders described Nichols as the bravest, most resourceful and effective spymaster of that forgotten war.

Millar provided the following statement: “We’ve been quietly working on this for a couple of years in-house and we’re all buzzing about it. For years, he has indulged in debauchery and decadence, serving the higher powers while looking the other way, sparing not an ounce of thought for the greater good. And I have to wonder if Matteo is a fan of Danny Trejo because one of his would-be assassins doesn’t half resemble a younger version of the action star. We see emotional moments throughout the book too as Roland checks in on his daughter who he has never really known and who doesn't know him, and honestly, it was just a really good and quick read. As the authorities grow frustrated, they decide to fight fire with fire, engaging the services of Atticus King, Roland's son and rival.