Author: Craig Zablo

The Batman: White Knight Deluxe Edition is Coming!

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Sean Murphy (with an assist from Matt Hollingsworth) created one of the best received graphic stories in recent years with Batman: White Knight.  Due to it’s critical acclaim and popularity, Batman: White Knight is getting the deluxe treatment…

A Newsweek Best Graphic Novel of the Year. The impossible has happened: The Joker has become a…hero?

The critically acclaimed Batman: White Knight gets a new deluxe treatment. Quickly becoming a classic Batman story, Batman: White Knight follows the transformation of The Joker into a sane citizen of Gotham: Jack Napier. After reconciling with his long-suffering partner, Harley Quinn, he sets in motion a carefully plotted campaign to discredit the one person whom he views as Gotham City’s true enemy: Batman.

Napier’s crusade exposes a decades-long history of corruption within the Gotham City Police Department and transforms Napier into a city councilman and civic hero. But when the sins of his past return to threaten everything that he has accomplished, the distinctions between savior and destroyer begin to break down for both The Joker and Batman alike–and with them any hope for Gotham’s future.

Writer and artist Sean Murphy delivers an extraordinary examination of comics’ greatest antagonists in Batman: White Knight, exploring justice, corruption, activism and the darkest depths of mental illness. Collecting the acclaimed eight-issue miniseries, including sketches and scripts as well as Sean Murphy’s orginal pencils. This stunning graphic novel also marks the debut of the DC Black Label imprint, which features classic DC characters in all-new, standalone stories written and illustrated by world-class authors and artists.

Batman: White Knight Deluxe Edition premieres on March 10, 2020.

The Time Harry Houdini Tricked Theodore Roosevelt

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Ellen Gutoskey posted the true story of The Time Harry Houdini Tricked Theodore Roosevelt.  If you check out Gutoskey’s article, you’ll learn how Houdini laid the groundwork to lure Roosevelt into asking Houdini to perform a seance (Roosevelt thinking it was HIS idea), and how Houdini pulled off the trick.

Well done Houdini and well written Gutoskey.

“Rambo III” Collectible Figure from ThreeZero

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Sly Stallone and Rambo fans who collect action figures will want to check out the new Rambo III offering from ThreeZero.  This fully-articulated collectible features a realistic likeness to Sly Stallone as he looked playing Rambo in his third outing.

Details include:

12 inches (~30cm) custom designed action figure body
The head sculpt features a realistic likeness of actor Sylvester Stallone
Black bandana
Jade pendant
Military jacket
Tank top
Military watch
Military pants
Belt
Boots
Military bag
Exchangeable hands
1 pair of fists
1 right holding gun
1 left holding gun
1 right holding knife
1 left holding arrow
1 right holding bow
Weapons:
Compound bow with quiver & 5 arrows
C4 explosive x 1
Boot dagger x 1
Survival knife with sheath x 1
AK with M203 grenade launcher
RPG-7 launcher

The Dark Horse “Terminator” Portfolio

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The Bristol Board recently posted The Terminator portfolio.  Originally published by Dark Horse in 1990, the portfolio featured the art of Chris Warner, Art Adams & Steve Moncuse, Mike Mignola, Art Adams, and Denis Beauvais. 

Makes me want to go into the Zablo vault and dig out my Terminator portfolio.  If you don’t have one, just use this link and click over to see all the Terminator portfolio plates.

Top Ten Car Racing Movies

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Alex Maidy at Joblo.com posted his choices for the Top Ten Car Racing Movies.  There are a few surprising choices (Cannonball Run?  Talladega Nights?) and some expected ones.

I’m happy to say that Sly Stallone made the list.  My first thought would have been Driven, but actually it was for Death Race 2000.

Click over and see Maidy’s full list and his comments on each.

“Point Blank” Gets the Cinephilia and Beyond Treatment

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Point Blank gets the Cinephilia and Beyond Treatment.  It’s a thing of beauty.  Click over and you’ll get…

  • Rarely seen production and behind-the-scenes photos
  • Point Blank script
  • Alexander Jacobs discusses the process of adapting Westlake’s novel, the conflicts involved in getting the script to screen, and his approach to screenwriting
  • How the Point Blank script influenced Walter Hill
  • John Boorman on shooting Point Blank his 1st feature film in color
  • John Boorman and Steven Soderbergh Point Blank commentary track
  •  Point Blank. Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
  • and much more!

The 21 Best Movies of the 1970s

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Eric D. Snider posted his choices at Mental Floss for The 21 Best Movies of the 1970s.  Snider’s list contains great choices. He listed his picks (except for Godfather 2) by their year of release.  I rated Snider’s choices by how they resonated with me.  Here’s how things came out…

Eric’s List

Craig’s List

01. A Clockwork Orange (71)

01. Rocky (76)

02. The Last Picture Show (71)

02. The Godfather (72)

03. The French Connection (71)

03. Godfather 2 (74)

04. The Godfather (72)

04. Jaws (75)

05. The Godfather II (74)

05. Alien (79)

06. Serpico (73)

06. Blazing Saddles (74)

07. The Exorcist (73)

07. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (75)

08. Chinatown (74)

08. The Exorcist (73)

09. Blazing Saddles (74)

09. Apocalypse Now (79)

10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (74)

10. Chinatown (74)

11. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (75)

11. Being There (79)

12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (75)

12. A Clockwork Orange (71)

13. Jaws (75)

13. All the President’s Men (76)

14. Taxi Driver (76)

14. Star Wars (77)

15. Rocky (76)

15. Serpico (73)

16. All the President’s Men (76)

16. The French Connection (71)

17. Network (76)

17. Taxi Driver (76)

18. Star Wars (77)

18. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (74)

19. Apocalypse Now (79)

19. Network (76)

20. Alien (79)

20. The Last Picture Show (71)

21. Being There (79)

21. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (75)

If I created the list I would have found spots for Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Superman and F.I.S.T.  just to name a few.  

When Cowboys Were King!

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I missed the cowboy comics boom.  When I started reading comics super heroes were already king.  Even still, there was an abundance of western comic books.  My favorite was The Rawhide Kid, but I also read many others.

If you’d like to get a look a some of the western comics heroes from the glory days, check out the gallery at Black, White and Bronze.  You’ll see art by Toth, Buscema, Heath, Kubert, Kirby, (my buddy!) Bill Black and others.