- Saga Genji: "Who are you?"
- Selah Sax: "A ghost."
- ―Black Box.[src]
Selah Sax was a independent assassin and former asset of the British government black ops unit, Group 13. The character served as an ally and love interest in Dynamite Entertainment's James Bond comic arc, Black Box, which ran between 1st March and 2nd August 2017.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Likely raised in the Scottish Highlands[1], Selah Sax was once a member of the British Special Forces and later a secret operative for Group 13, a task force responsible for deniable operations. One such mission in Fallujah, Iraq resulted in civilian fatalities after she lobbed a grenade into a room. Filled with guilt, Sax went rogue after she was presumed killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) destroyed her convoy. She became an independent assassin and, in a utilitarian attempt to atone for her past activities with Group 13, set about killing other assassins and threats to the British populace.
Black Box[]
In the 2010s, Sax shot and killed Corsican hitman Andre Moreau in the French Alps — crossing paths with James Bond, who had also been dispatched to kill the Corsican. He pursued her on skis, eventually overwhelming and unmasking her; however, seizing upon his surprise, she bludgeoned him with her helmet and escaped. Some time later she travelled to Japan, presumably targeting technology mogul and data pirate, Saga Genji. Whilst there she intercepted and rescued Bond in a Yakuza casino in Tokyo, and attempted to prevent him from interfering with her self-appointed mission by trussing him up in a love hotel. 007 continued his investigation into Genji and drew the attention of a Yakuza motorcycle hit-squad. Sax intervened and drove the wounded spy to safety and patched him up. After he regained consciousness in her suite the pair made love and formed an alliance to pursue Genji and a black box of stolen British data.
Several days later they followed a signal emanating from Genji's headset to Aokigahara and were ambushed by his hulking assassin, No Name. After overpowering him, to 007's concern, she shot him - seemingly fatally - in cold blood. From there they boarded a train on the Tōhoku Shinkansen line, where Bond neutralized competitive CIA operative Felix Leiter using a fast-acting sedative and, as they attempted to leave, they were caught in a firefight involving Genji's operatives and the CIA. Realising that Bond had been dispatched to recover global secrets which could alter the balance of power, Sax dissolved their alliance and blew apart the couplings connecting their carriages — inadvertently stranding her with No Name. She was taken captive and held at Genji's base of operations beneath the Fukushima nuclear power plant. 007 eventually liberated her and the pair fought and killed Genji, acquiring the black box in the process. On returning to the surface they were ambushed by Leiter and, moved by her pleas, Bond quietly wiped the box's memory using his wristwatch's electromagnetic pulse (EMP) feature. Sax and Bond subsequently spent intimate time together where it had all started, at a cabin in the French Alps.
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References[]
- ↑ Percy, Benjamin (01 March 2017). James Bond: Black Box #1, Rapha Lobosco, Black Box (in En-US), United States: Dynamite Entertainment. “She had a Highland accent.”
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