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Well, Lyutsifer Safin is a version of Lucifer Satan so that fits. >:)
Ah, I thought it was done arcane Q-related knowledge only you would know! :))
Yes, I think that must be what it is too. What a name to call a dog!
It's really pressing the lemon.
The literary James Bond has become like a pig in a meat processing plant. The only thing they lose is the squeal.
I guess it's the same with many IPs, but it doesn't fit Bond well. He lives in a "small" universe: the staff around him are exactly that: peripheral. It's not like Star Wars, with a whole galaxy to take your characters to (and from). Or the Arthurian legend.
This would be the last chance I’d give to a Bond spinoff for awhile. I’m happy that IFP took a chance, though. I hope people give Q a chance, as he’s always an enjoyable character.
I think there's been a move by IFP in the last two decades or so (basically since the Fleming family took over full control of the Bond literary copyright) to expand the Bond universe in various directions. So we've seen the likes of Young Bond, the Moneypenny Diaries, Felix Leiter comics and now this Q Mysteries series as expanded universe experiments. The Q Mysteries series is a little different in that he's really only a film Bond character and so it leads to a blurring of the lines between the literary Bond and film Bond. I'd have to say that that's something I'm really totally opposed to on principle. I realise that some of the continuation Bond novels under John Gardner and Raymond Benson had elements more in keeping with the Bond films but that's as far as I'd ideally want them to go in terms of crossover between the two distinct versions of Bond.
I agree that Bond is different from most other franchises in that Bond is really the only main recurring character of note. Yes, of course M, Bill Tanner, Moneypenny, Major Boothroyd/Q and Felix Leiter do play their respective parts but are any of them really interesting enough in their own right to carry a novel or a series of their own? I'm not so sure, even though they appear to have carried it off in the past. With these expanded universe types of thing there's always less or even no Bond involvement making you wonder what the point of it all is? I mean James Bond is what it's all about surely? The films and the adult Bond novels should be the bread and butter of the IP are are still what I think most serious minded Bond fans are really interested in and not extraneous matter which, no matter how interesting or otherwise, only takes us further away from the character of James Bond himself. And ultimately James Bond is why we're all fans of this particular character and indeed ultimately why we're all here.