BAMComix Presents - Hidden In The Shadows - Chapter Twenty Nine- Auld Agents, Auld Problems

 Those two certainly love winding each other up!. This was one of my favourite crossovers to help work on, it was huge fun! Hope you guys enjoyed reading it as much as Gary and I had putting it together

For past chapters of the Hidden in the shadows story, please check out, blondeactionman, garymenten, davidd and London.roadhog. flickr's! (Simly click on any of the uploaded pics, and it should take you straight there)

BAMComix wrote:  Those two certainly love winding each other up!. This was one of my favourite crossovers to help work on, it was huge fun! Hope you guys enjoyed reading it as much as Gary and I had putting it together

For past chapters of the Hidden in the shadows story, please check out, blondeactionman, garymenten, davidd and London.roadhog. flickr's! (Simly click on any of the uploaded pics, and it should take you straight there)

It was certainly one of the best and funniest exchanges, all the more funny because the characters involved are both Alpha-males but acting like high-school girls having a cat fight over who is the biggest ______________ (fill in word of your choice)

Is this story not posted here at the OSF forum?

Oh... right... there's no "Photo-Story" dedicated section.

This is definitely an entertaining installment! But we'll see how tough Bond-Fleming really is when it's his turn to be the "boots on the ground"... in Dinosaur Valley!

Haha this is fantastic. Fun and love how it’s put together

lurpdog101 wrote:Haha this is fantastic. Fun and love how it’s put together

Thank-you

The elaborate banter requires a substantial degree of pop culture knowledge, but works pretty convincingly for the purposes of the story. Love the complex backgrounds and most of the active poses (such as they were for a conversation) worked very realistically.

Man I just wish I could do stuff like that, the setup required for this must be insane, let alone the space requirement to fit in fully furniture rooms like that. I am always amazed by this

Well written and fun to look at. I caught all of the references — says a lot about my love for Bond movies (at least most of them prior to Quantum of Solace — after that… meh), and nice tie in with BAMcomix.

Thanks guys! It really was a lot of fun to be part of .

As Dal said, it was quite a fun project and allowed us a way to integrate my Sean Connery / Bond into the BamComix universe which already has a Roger Moore / Bond.  (That English bloke, the one who looks like Simon Templar.) The idea that James Bond is simply the name assigned to whoever holds the number 007 in MI-6 has been floated by others as a possible explanation for the many different actors playing Bond over the years, and the different ways he was portrayed.  

For my money, Sean Connery WAS Bond, or certainly the best movie Bond, and the way he played him,  you never lost the sense that beneath the charm, the tailored suits, refined tastes in food and drink, there was an Edinburgh street ruffian who'd beat you up at the drop of a hat.  Connery even sounded menacing when introducing himself.....My name is Bond; James Bond."  I certainly never got that sense with Roger Moore, or most of the guys that followed Connery.  

The Zardoz and Simon Templar references of course, are there for laughs, and Dr. Noah refers to an episode of Deep Space 9, "Our Man Bashir" in which Bashir and Garak are caught in a malfunctioning holodeck simulation of a James Bond like adventure.  

Though I wrote most of the dialogue, Dal and I had worked out the rough details of the conversation and the dislike that both Tibias and Bond-Fleming have for one another.  This served as a good vehicle of shedding some light on Tibias who until that point had largely been just a shadowy character in Dal's stories, referred to more often than seen.  In fact I think this appearance marks only the second time he's appeared in physical form in the BamComix universe.  Since Connery/Bond's character is already well known, it's Tibias's nature that's mostly revealed.  Note that throughout this catty little exchange, neither really scores any knockouts, though both get in some good shots at the other. In the end, though Bond-Fleming has clearly gotten under Tibias's skin, they both come off as being highly competitive alpha males who don't take any crap from anyone.

That was a very good read, and I got some of those references like the Zardoz one and I also must agree, Sean Connery was the Bond, his delivery of the lines was quite simply different.

Also I read this in my best British accent for added effect.

I think what impresses me the most is the patience behind creating all of this.  It’s obviously a labor of love, and that helps tremendously, but still…setting the stage and the props, posing the figures, getting the right lighting and camera angles….I can’t even begin to imagine the time and effort invested to produce a product of this quality.

Xavion2004 wrote:I think what impresses me the most is the patience behind creating all of this.  It’s obviously a labor of love, and that helps tremendously, but still…setting the stage and the props, posing the figures, getting the right lighting and camera angles….I can’t even begin to imagine the time and effort invested to produce a product of this quality.

As Dal's BAM HQ set was built and super-detailed some time ago, the process was much simpler than you might imagine.  

1.  The script is written, discussed by PM, and finalized by mutual agreement.

2. Both Dal and I shoot photos to correspond to the script, putting a bit of thought into what the photos would need to look like in order to match what's being said.  I had the easier job here, because Sir James is sitting the whole time.

3. Dal sends me his photos and I start using his and mine to produce the comic. The most time consuming part here was actually resizing and altering some of mine to look correct on the small laptop screen regardless of perspective. This is done easily enough using Photoshop.

4. Using the Comic Life App, place the selected images into panels, add the speech balloons and text, create a cover page, and it's done.

Communication between the authors and being on the same wavelength as to where things are going is the key.

ThePhotogsBlog wrote:
As Dal's BAM HQ set was built and super-detailed some time ago, the process was much simpler than you might imagine.  ...

Communication between the authors and being on the same wavelength as to where things are going is the key.  

Which is all well and good until DOCTOR EVIL shows up to throw a spanner in the works!

Presenting Doctor Evil in... The Bard of Evil!

For those of you not on AMMO and who have not had the opportunity to experience the whole history between Dr. Evil and Kamiko Takahara, let us simply say that the pointy-eared freak is obsessed with Kamiko, having had a deep crush on her for quite some time.  At first, Kamiko found him incredibly annoying, but  he's grown on her a bit over time, and the recent truce she agreed to with Cousin Monday, by whose terms she is not allowed to come down and slaughter everyone in the Doctor's lair has softened up her attitude and allowed her to be a little more friendly.  

Pure quality! That Dr. Evil and his twin crack me up every time, whilst the super col Kamiko just takes it all in her stride!

I rather enjoyed the Shakespearean bit.

GubernatorFan wrote:I rather enjoyed the Shakespearean bit.

We're nothin' but high-class and sophistication around here!