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Sly and the Family Stallone: News for the Week

Craig / / 2018, Backtrace, Celebs, Creed 2, Creed 3, Family, Honors, Rambo 5

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

Why Stallone is Still the Greatest Action Star

Craig / / 2018, Backtrace

Renaldo Matadeen and CBR.com remind us why Stallone Is Still the Greatest Action Star.   Here are a few tidbits…

Stallone picks up this accolade for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it’s his longevity that really puts him ahead in the field. His resume is stacked, with untouchable franchises like Rambo and Rocky under his belt, not to mention other projects that impressed fans of the ’80s and ’90s action scene.

…Creed and Expendables franchises perfectly illustrate his staying power…

…another reason he deserves the title of greatest action star — he’s adapted to the landscape…

That’s another reason why he’s the best action star, period. He mixes drama with his heroics in a style unlike any of his peers. Creed got Stallone an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and he was previously nominated for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay for Rocky in 1976, which is something the likes of Bruce Willis, Kurt Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean Claude Van Damme can’t boast.

Check out the Matadeen’s entire piece, it’s worth your time.

Sly and the Family Stallone: News for the Week

Craig / / 2018, Celebs, Creed 2, Rambo 5

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

How Sly Stallone Made the Cover of a French Graphic Novel

Craig / / 2018, Bullet to the Head

Today we have the Colin WIlson cover to the French graphic novel Du Plomb Dans La Tête written by Matz and illustrated by Colin Wilson.  If you think the the tough-guy on the cover looks like Sylvester Stallone, you’d be right.

See, Du Plomb Dans La Tête was the basis for Stallone’s film Bullet to the Head.

What’s interesting to note is the character (that Sly ended up playing) from the original graphic novel was drawn to look a bit like Sly as Jack Carter.  When Sly took on the role for Bullet to the Head, Walter Hill (the director) opted for a different look and Sly agreed.  So in the movie Sly doesn’t look like Jack Carter but on the Du Plomb Dans La Tête cover he does.

And now you have the rest of the story (as Paul Harvey would say).

Ranking All “Rocky” / “Creed” Movies

Craig / / 2018, Creed, Creed 2, Rocky, Rocky 2, Rocky 3, Rocky 4, Rocky 5, Rocky Balboa

Sam Stone at CBR.com recently posted Every Rocky Movie Ranked. Stone did this by averaging the professional critics’ scores from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.

Joe Leydon at Variety had the same idea so All Eight Rocky Movies Ranked were done by Joe.

Not to be outdone, John Orquiola at ScreenRant provided All 8 Rocky & Creed Movies Ranked.

Follow the links above to see the individual comments and rankings for each of the Rocky/Creed films.   I created a chart to make comparisons easier.  I also added my rankings in the last column.

It was interesting to see that except for Rocky at #1 and Creed as #2 there wasn’t a majority consensus for any other ranking.

Jack Carter and John Wick by John Beatty!

Craig / / 2018, Celebs, Craig's Sly Art, Get Carter

On November 23, 2018, aka Black Friday, John Beatty and I met in his studio to do a livestream broadcast of John’s John Wick / Jack Carter drawing for my Stallone Sketch Collection. Click on the photo above to see a much bigger version.  We were joined in the studio by Ron Wendt who took the photos below.

That’s John…

That’s me…

And that’s John with his reference working on the art.  You can click on the video link below to see and hear how everything went down.  We had a blast with viewers texting in questions and even a couple of call-ins to the studio.

John is considering adding tones to the Carter / Wick piece and if he does I’m sure I’ll join him in studio, so maybe you will consider swinging by as well.  John draws live most Monday through Fridays and loves to interact with those who tune in.  You should give it a go and tell him I sent ya.