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Dragonpol

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Dragonpol
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Favourite Fleming Novel
Moonraker
Favourite Bond Film
On Her Majestys Secret Service
Favourite Bond Actor
Timothy Dalton
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  • I'm sure AI will try but fail in the attempt and produce only fan fiction level work. And even AI could never create a Bond villain as crazy as David Dragonpol. Some things are best left to humans methinks.
  • Bond has pretty much done everything in one medium or another, as that comic strip excerpt above proves!
  • Jordo007 wrote: » I wonder if any Fleming chapter titles have ever been considered as Bond titles? I'm not sure but they would be a good source to draw on when the few remaining Fleming titles left run out. Someone here pointed out that SPE…
    in Bond 26 Title Comment by Dragonpol May 7
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » Once Was Enough. That's what George Lazenby thought about playing Bond. Yeah. True. Though I think he later regretted heeding the advise he recei…
    in Bond 26 Title Comment by Dragonpol May 7
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » Once Was Enough. That's what George Lazenby thought about playing Bond.
    in Bond 26 Title Comment by Dragonpol May 7
  • RichardTheBruce wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » ArapahoeBondFan wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » I rarely remember dreams when I wake up but I do remember one Bond dream I had many years ago. I dreamt that I'd met Bond author John Gardner and w…
  • ArapahoeBondFan wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » I rarely remember dreams when I wake up but I do remember one Bond dream I had many years ago. I dreamt that I'd met Bond author John Gardner and was chatting to him. I excitedly asked him what his n…
  • MaxCasino wrote: » https://www.thebookbond.com/2011/06/lost-john-gardner-comic-strip.html I wish that these would have been published. I wonder why License Renewed and For Special Services by John Gardener weren't released first. They deserved …
  • Ludovico wrote: » I once dreamed that a PTS sequence of a Bond film with Daniel Craig, early in his tenure, was set at the Windsor train station. There was a bomb in a train set to go off and kill the Queen or something. Interesting dream. …
  • mtm wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Benny wrote: » George_Kaplan wrote: » Pretty sure it was just another CraigsNotBond rumour from the time. Sadly the site still exists, although they’ve changed the name to cl…
  • 007HallY wrote: » Benny wrote: » George_Kaplan wrote: » Pretty sure it was just another CraigsNotBond rumour from the time. Sadly the site still exists, although they’ve changed the name to classicbondforum now. The likes of bjmdds…
  • QBranch wrote: » Brosnan Bond loved to drive stick, but he had no respect for a manual. Brosnan really sticks it to Craig when it comes to driving. ;)
  • Agatha Christie "brought back to life" for AI writing course: https://www.expressandstar.com/showbiz/2025/05/01/agatha-christie-brought-to-life-by-ai-for-writing-course/
  • delfloria wrote: » CrabKey wrote: » Craig was an excellent Bond, but hardly an impossible act to follow. Agreed. If they could replace Connery successfully they should be able to replace Craig successfully too with the right acto…
  • George_Kaplan wrote: » Pretty sure it was just another CraigsNotBond rumour from the time. Exactly. A load of old tosh that the tabloids gleefully ran with. It was probably because he drove an automatic car in the film somewhere and the rum…
  • Scaramanga1974 wrote: » I can’t believe a previous poster dissed Skyfall. Strange times. The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
  • mtm wrote: » We've known that was nonsense for 20 years though, surely. Yes, indeed. I think they were just joking above about that though sometimes the meaning can be lost or at least ambiguous in text.
  • mtm wrote: » The CR one was manual too, as was the DB10. Why's this noteworthy? As intimated by @Reflsin2bourbons above during the run up to CR being released there was the press rumour that Craig couldn't drive a manual car, only an automa…
  • dewiparry wrote: » Since62 wrote: » dewiparry wrote: » Tee Off At Dawn (villain hideout underneath the green) Will there be critters ? as in Caddyshack ? Haha I haven't seen that film. I've been designing in my head two golf…
  • dewiparry wrote: » Tee Off At Dawn (villain hideout underneath the green) Shades of YOLT there. 🙂
  • Since62 wrote: » Are posters still used ? Where ? At those historical buildings called "Movie theaters" ? Welcome to the post-Covid world, my friend. There's nothing left.
  • The Traffic Was Murder.
  • HitchBondUSA wrote: » QBranch wrote: » Anticipating: game; comic; continuation novel, expanded anniversary soundtracks. In that order. Expecting: more overpriced and underwhelming luxury items from 007Store dressed in black and/or silver;…
  • A Day in the Death.
  • The Willing Executioner.
  • MaxCasino wrote: » Tracy wrote: » poster-art,much-like-music.....is-25%-or-more-of-the-007-experience Modern day Bond movie posters should use his influence. Not this Bond solo or one other person crap. A mix of characters helps make a …
  • They could've used Speed but I hear it's already taken. ;)
  • ImpertinentGoon wrote: » Been reading Moonraker, so "Champagne and Benzedrine" is a good one. Indeed, a more upmarket version of "Cigarettes and Alcohol". :)
  • AnotherZorinStooge wrote: » Just started to read Colonel Sun Is this your first read of it? Please let us know what you thought of it once you get it read. Personally I think it's the best of the Bond continuation novels.
  • Thanks for typing this review up, @Revelator. I actually found it on the British Newspaper Archive a while back after they added the Express newspapers. I just hadn't gotten around to typing it up yet. The British Newspaper Archive is a great resour…