{"id":12099,"date":"2015-03-08T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12099"},"modified":"2020-08-11T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:44:09","slug":"z-view-the-expendables-2-by-dixon-and-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12099","title":{"rendered":"Z-View: The Expendables #2 by Dixon and Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z030815zview_expendables2_cov.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Expendables #2 <\/strong> <span style=\"font-family: arial;\">is part of a four-issue mini-series published by<strong> Dynamite Comics<\/strong>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Writer: Chuck Dixon<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dt><\/dt>\n<dt>Artist: Esteve Polls<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dt><\/dt>\n<dt>Colorist: Marc Rueda<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dt><\/dt>\n<dt>Cover Artist: Lucio Parrillo<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"intelliTXT\">After years of corruption, murder of American hostages, and betrayal of foreign policies, the US &#8211; with the help of other Nations who secretly put together a squad of their most highly trained military personal &#8211; will finally attempt to overthrow the dictator who has caused devastation in South America for over 20 years.<br \/>\nThis is the story before the movie&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z030815zview_expendables2_panel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"473\"><\/p>\n<p>*** Beware \u2013 spoilers may be found below ***<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>The Expendables<\/strong><\/em> in a comic prequel.<\/li>\n<li>A one million dollar payday for a snatch and grab.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Embracing the gloom again, huh?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is starting to bug me that the comic characters don&#8217;t look more like the movie characters.&nbsp; <strong>Toll Road<\/strong> has long hair, a mustache and no cauliflower ears.&nbsp; <strong>Hale Caesar<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t look much bigger than everyone else&#8230; and so on.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being a kid in the store when your dad won&#8217;t give a drug dealer requested information.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Repeatedly calling <strong>Gunar<\/strong> &#8220;Tweaker&#8221; and everyone complaining about how terrible he screws things up and yet they keep bringing him back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Ugly:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a drug dealer warms up your bath.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Expendables #2&nbsp; <\/strong>would get a two star rating if I wasn&#8217;t such a <strong>Stallone\/Expendables<\/strong> fan, but since I am&#8230;<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Expendables #2 is part of a four-issue mini-series published by Dynamite Comics. 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