Judi Dench director Chris Foggin on a budget of just £5,000, she portrays a pensioner grappling with a crush on her church choirmaster and the art of cyber-flirting via social networking. Dench made her seventh and final appearance as M in the twenty-third "James Bond" film, "Skyfall" (2012), directed by Sam Mendes. In the film, Bond investigates an attack on MI6; it transpires that it is part of an attack on M by former MI6 operative, Raoul Silva (played by Javier Bardem) to humiliate, discredit and kill M as revenge against her for betraying him. Dench's position as M was subsequently filled
James Bond (comics) began to appear on a semi-regular basis for a few years, starting with an adaptation of "Licence to Kill" published in 1989 by Eclipse Comics and illustrated by Mike Grell, which was published in both trade paperback and hardcover edition. Grell would go on to write the miniseries "Permission to Die", the first James Bond comic book storyline not adapted from a previous work, which was published over a two-year period by Eclipse. In 1995, Topps Comics obtained the rights to publish an adaptation of the new Bond film, "GoldenEye", which was announced as a three-issue miniseries. The second issue