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“I was
originally going to run with two different covers for issue #41. The
Pierce and Halle cover was going out through our distributors, and
the "Prisoner 007" cover was the design to be received by JBIFC
subscribers - or the other way round - I can't remember which. It's
a real shame it didn't come to pass, because we had the jump on
everyone with, what I liked to call, 'the hairy Bond' shot.
Unfortunately it was not to be. The reason neither of the cover
designs were used was because it was at the time the JBIFC closed
down. Issue #40 (January 2002) had been the last issue published,
and it would prove to be a full 20 months until the Die Another
Day issue #41 would be appear, by which time of course, the fact
that Brosnan/Bond was incarcerated was old news. In the past I very
rarely had the luxury of mocking up alternative covers for the same
issue, and usually went with what first came to hand. Only since
issue #41 onwards do I now have the time to bother with different
cover concepts, but it's usually my first choice that makes the
final cover. I also re-designed the magazine logo as a block that
could be positioned anywhere (within reason) on the cover, as this
allows for a far greater selection of images to be used as a cover
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