“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Haha well I stuck with Spider-man even after OMD, so it would have to be one of the worse comics I ever read to get me off of Bond. As for the forum, I feel like they would have to announce that a Bond TV show and new video game are coming out around the same time the next movie is for them to ever even think about giving us a forum.
I will PM them with a proposal dossier :P For the record, Light of my Death is that bad - I feel so sad that Tatiana was dragged into it.
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Speaking of Tatiana, I really hope more characters from the novels pop up in the current run of Bond comics besides Felix and Tiger.
Also, I read the Body #2 today. Much like the first issue, I enjoyed this issue a lot. It's mainly a dialogue issue between Bond and another character, named Mrs. Cleese, with basically no action but I found it really engaging and well done. I also really liked the motivation Kot gave Cleese having for her actions in the story.
I hope so too, there is a lot to explore. I'd like them to touch on the effect of all the people that Bond loses during missions. I think part of the attraction of The Body, is that it needs no action
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Yeah I'm really liking "The Body" mini-series so far. I like that they're trying something different with the Bond comics which I think have been just kind of ordinary since the first two Ellis minis. I hope they continue thinking outside the box and even get around to those pre-Casino Royale stories set in the 1950s that Dynamite said they were going to do when they announced they had rights to the character.
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Felix actually got attacked in Live and Let Die; which was only his (and Bond's) second appearence. He's pretty much spent the majority of the books like that....which became awkward when Licence to Kill was adapted, and they did their best to keep it in the novel "canon" (Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker adaptations also tried to shoehorn film stories into the writing style of Fleming's novels; and actually kind of succeeded, oddly enough). Basically, Felix had to go through the same attack twice (although I think his LTK injuries were far more severe).
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I think that meant Felix becomes a private detective in Diamonds are Forever LTK was definitely more severe, and the circumstances of it were harder personally for Bond too. I'm not sure that Moonraker succeeded in the style of Fleming though :P I think it's interesting that of all of the side characters, Felix is one of only a few who's fate I care for...
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Haha yeah, I meant Fleming made him a detective in Diamonds are Forever after the shark attack in Live and Let Die. I agree that i don't feel like the movie Moonraker captured the spirit of the novel. Personally, I love the Moonraker novel and hate the movie version of it. Besides it having Bond in it and the main villain being named Hugo Drax, I feel like the movie has nothing to do with the novel. I haven't read the Spy who Loved Me yet, so I can comment on that. I do really enjoy the film version though. While Felix is probably the main supporting character I care about, probably because he is the most re-occurring and I enjoy his friendship with Bond, I do like learning about the fates of various other characters in the novels. Like in the novel of From Russia with Love, Bond notes that Tiffany Case (the Bond girl from Diamonds are Forever) lived with him for awhile but eventually left him because the argued all the time. Fleming including stuff like that I find fascinating and makes me more invested in some of the supporting characters compared to a lot of the movies where we never really hear about any of the characters again.
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
I'm currently reformatting all of the references for a paper which is due to be published, ehm, last week - we got an extension because of the snow :P To tame the monotony, I have the JB soundtracks on shuffle - any favourites?
Casino Royale, Live and Let Die and Thunderball get a special mention from me. Die Another Day gets the wooden spoon, followed closely by For Your Eyes Only.
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Good luck with the paper! I agree that I really like the themes for Casino Royale and Live and Let Die (the theme for Live and Let Die is probably the only thing I really like about that movie). I also really like the themes for Skyfall and Goldfinger. Initially I disliked the theme for Spectre, but its grown on me over time.
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Haha I've had M for the past week but haven't got around to reading it yet either.
Also, I saw that they are releasing a new Bond novel at the end of May called Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz. Its going to serve as a prequel to Casino Royale. While I am usually pretty hesitant about prequels for well known books/movies, I am pretty interested in this book and am hopefully going to be able to pick it up around the time of its release.