Modesty Blaise: The Green-Eyed Monster

    (Titan, 2005)
™ and © 2005 Associated Newspaper/Solo Syndication

Tough, beautiful and confident, Modesty Blaise is much more than a female James Bond. A mercenary and espionage expert, she was created by novelist Peter O’Donnell and first published in strip form the early 1960s in the London Evening Standard.

This trade paperback is part of a series reprinting all of Modesty’s newspaper adventures. For the first time, all stories in this volume feature art by Enric Badia Romero, a remarkable Spanish artist with a sexy, realistic style. The three stories included are “Willie the Djinn,” in which Modesty and her partner Willie Garvin serve as chaperones for a group of beautiful dancers and wind up in the midst of a middle-eastern turf war, “The Green-Eyed Monster,” which sees Modesty and Willie tracking a spoiled, obnoxious rich girl kidnapped by revolutionaries, and “Death of a Jester,” where they tangle with a rich mercenary who takes his wish to live in medieval times a bit too far.

— Jerry Smith
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