{"id":3652,"date":"2009-10-13T04:04:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T08:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2009-10-13T04:40:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T08:40:35","slug":"the-black-terror-seduction-of-deceit-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3652","title":{"rendered":"The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit: Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z101309brereton_bt_cu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"491\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week we&#8217;re taking a look at <strong>&#8220;The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit&#8221;<\/strong> written by<strong> Beau Smith &amp; Chuck Dixon<\/strong> with art by <strong>Dan Brereton<\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Today&#8217;s art is a drawing that <strong>Brereton<\/strong> did and <strong>Eclipse<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z101309brereton_bt_congrats.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">used in an ad<\/a><\/strong> to congratulate <strong>Dan<\/strong> on winning the <strong>Russ Manning Award<\/strong> as <strong>Best\u00a0New Artist<\/strong> for his work on the series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Black Terror<\/strong> series\u00a0took place\u00a0in an <strong>alternate universe<\/strong> where<strong> organized crime<\/strong> had become a <strong>legitimate enterpise<\/strong>.\u00a0 In this hard-boiled setting, the <strong>Black Terror<\/strong> waged a <strong>one man war<\/strong> against crime.\u00a0 Despite his best efforts, the <strong>Black Terror<\/strong> realized that he wasn&#8217;t making a dent in the criminal underworld.\u00a0 So he decided that the only way to take down the organization is from within.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To this end,\u00a0he &#8220;did in&#8221; a couple of low level hoods and began to work his way up into the organization.\u00a0 The mobsters\u00a0only knew him as <strong>Ryan Delvecchio<\/strong>, a tough, on-the-rise thug; not his alter-ego, the criminal killer known as The <strong>Black Terror<\/strong>.\u00a0 When <strong>Delvecchio<\/strong> is hand-picked to become part of an elite <strong>Mafia hit squad<\/strong>, he&#8217;s in the perfect position to take out the major players in organized crime&#8230; that is if the Feds don&#8217;t kill him first.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I wish that someone would reprint this series in a hardcover edition.\u00a0 More tomorrow when we hit <strong>Day 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we&#8217;re taking a look at &#8220;The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit&#8221; written by Beau Smith &amp; Chuck Dixon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}