- "Dharma. Dharma Reach. Eighties Hippie parents in Vermont: Dharma wasn't the worst name that could have happened to me."
- ― Dharma Reach to Bond.
Dharma Reach was a former U.S. Marine and private security agent working for Serbian scientist, Slaven Kurjak. The character served as a henchman in Dynamite Entertainment's first James Bond comic arc, Vargr, which ran between 4th November 2015 and 6th April 2016.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Born during the 1980s in Bristol, England, Dharma Reach and her family subsequently moved to Vermont and several other locations around the United States. At some point she joined the U.S. Marine Corps and was eventually given command of an unspecified military prison, which she used as "her own private torture garden". In order to forestall an investigation into her misconduct, Reach plotted to kill her superiors with an IED; during the construction of which she lost both her forearms. She left the military and, after being augmented with cutting-edge prosthetic limbs, was recruited as a private security agent by Serbian scientist, Slaven Kurjak. During her time working for him in Germany, Reach met fellow-enforcer and chronic anhedonia sufferer Bryan Masters, and entered a romantic relationship with him.
Vargr[]
During the mid-2010s, Kurjak began experimenting on the British population — smuggling tainted illegal drugs into the United Kingdom. Unaware of their precise origin, MI6 sent James Bond to shut down the operation. Aware of his impending arrival through CIA contacts, Kurjak dispatched Reach to intercept the spy on his arrival in Berlin and, posing as a friendly contact, eliminate him. During their car journey through the city, Reach seduced and strangled Bond; but was ultimately foiled when the agent delivered a kick to her driver, causing the car to swerve and crash. Believing 007 to be armed she fled the scene and returned to Kurjak Medizin. Later that day, attempting to get Bond killed, Kurjak led him to investigate a warehouse operated by the aggressive Al-Zein gang. Reach was ordered to shadow him and report on the situation. Much to her amazement, he emerged unscathed.
In a desperate attempt to rid themselves of MI6, Masters, accompanied by Reach, was sent to assassinate Bond and the staff of the Berlin intelligence station. Whilst they were unable to locate Bond, the Station massacre provided the dysfunctional Masters with fleeting amorous feelings; which ultimately went nowhere, much to both parties' despair. The following evening, having discovered that Bond had killed Masters in her absence, Dharma attacked him in the London Docklands; ramming his Bentley with a Land Rover and violently struggling with him. During the altercation, Bond managed to rip open her bionic limbs and rupture their volatile batteries. After Reach gloatingly turned her back on the bloodied agent, he seized the opportunity to kick her over the edge of the dock, where her prosthetics exploded and killed her.
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