What are some of the most unique or surprising Bond comics that you've encountered? I know we're saying some of the more outlandish ones, but are there any other examples of maybe certain ones people should seek out if they want to reach beyond the film adaptations in comic book form?

I would actually say, if you really want to start out, start with the newspaper strip collections.

You were just talking about the Goldfinger one behind you.

There's been three or four collections of the newspaper strips.

Titan did back...

In the early days, they did 17 volumes of the newspaper strip, so you could get the whole 25 years.

Some of those are still relatively easy to find.

But that's always been like I think a good way to kind of guide somebody through is just like pick someone and then go from there.

So and when does it turn into, when does it go from being a fan to being more of a passion where you feel like this is now going to start to become a part of your life where you're writing books and doing things like that?

I think it was a gradual thing.

I mean, like I said, Bond was always a part of my life.

Like I used to sneak into school early to read the James Bond newspaper strips in the Daily Express.

My teachers used to think I was keeping up with current affairs, but I was basically keeping up with Bond's affairs.

So it was always we always we always used to go.

My dad and I always used to go to see the next Bond movie when it opened.

But if it's

Go ahead, Alan.

No, I was going to say, you're right, and John mentioned earlier, there is a lot here, once you know the stories further on, there's a lot of little hints here that you could watch this episode like you did and not necessarily pick up on them, and it doesn't impact the story.

But there is a lot being laid here in this episode that when you know later on, there's a lot of little Easter eggs.

It's like, oh, okay, that's...

Interesting they're laying the foundation of that so early, just three episodes into the reboot.

They're laying a lot of the foundation for stuff to follow sort of several seasons going forward.

And the interesting thing about Christopher Eccleston's Doctor, I found him a bit, at the beginning, a bit, he grated a bit.

Before we head on out, Alan, how are things going with you? And any updates on projects you're working on?

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... to TV in Ameri- and they had it...

Okay, it wasn't, wasn't the, the carpet beater, but it was very clearly a torture scene.

Very well done.

And this went out at, on a prime time TV in 1954.

So amazed that that was in there.

I t- I think it's very important to the mytholo- the mythos because it's partly sets up who Bond is going forward, his resilience, the fact that he can get, he can take that sort of torture.

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Ah.

Okay.

When Rachel, when it, it switches to Rachel in their corporate headquarters after the first engagement with the Death Ray, she suddenly knows that these are Daleks.

She says, "I wanna know more about the Dal- the, the Daleks." Or, "I wanna know more about the Doctor.

He seems to know more about the Da- a lot about the Daleks." How does she know they were called Daleks? Because the Do- 'cause when they were in the scrapyard after the fight, they were leaning over the corpse of the Dalek, and they say, "What...?" She, the group captain says, "What are these?" And she...

And then it pans to the Doctor in the van, and he says, "The Daleks." And the next gives this whole exposition to Ace about the Daleks and their backstory.

Non, uh, Rachel and-

Yeah.