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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 2, 2024 22:03:30 GMT -5
I will always remember Weathers for The Six Million Dollar Man, as one of the bad guys (who all just happened to be ex-NFL players) who kidnaps Larry Csonka (given the creative name of Larry Bronca) and Csonk and Steve Austin take them on in a football game to escape/take them down. The bad guys were Carl Weathers, Mike Henry (Tarzan in 2 films, Green Berets, Longest Yard, Marget Houlihan's husband for the Olympics episode of MASH) and Dick Butkus.
Also a favorite for Force 10 From Navarone, as a medic and prisoner of some MPs who ends up on the plane the commando team takes to Yugoslavia to blow up a dam.
Given that he didn't study to be an actor, he turned into a pretty good one.
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Post by commond on Feb 3, 2024 4:21:31 GMT -5
Weathers majored in theater studies in college so he had some training in acting.
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 3, 2024 11:36:28 GMT -5
I was a huge Weathers fan. From Rocky too Predator to Action Jackson etc. If he was onboard I wanted to see it. Sad news. Lost a huge star.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 3, 2024 18:32:39 GMT -5
RIP to British novelist Christopher Priest, author of The Prestige, Fugue for a Darkening Island, The Glamour, The Inverted World, The Affirmation and The Separation. The Prestige, about competing magicians, was adapted into film, by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman (and David Bowie, as Nikola tesla).
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 3, 2024 18:53:43 GMT -5
RIP to British novelist Christopher Priest, author of The Prestige, Fugue for a Darkening Island, The Glamour, The Inverted World, The Affirmation and The Separation. The Prestige, about competing magicians, was adapted into film, by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman (and David Bowie, as Nikola tesla). Wow, didn't know he passed. RIP |
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Post by foxley on Feb 3, 2024 20:12:57 GMT -5
RIP to British novelist Christopher Priest, author of The Prestige, Fugue for a Darkening Island, The Glamour, The Inverted World, The Affirmation and The Separation. The Prestige, about competing magicians, was adapted into film, by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman (and David Bowie, as Nikola tesla). Not to be confused with the American comics writer Christopher Priest; a misapprehension I laboured under for some time.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 3, 2024 20:43:59 GMT -5
RIP to British novelist Christopher Priest, author of The Prestige, Fugue for a Darkening Island, The Glamour, The Inverted World, The Affirmation and The Separation. The Prestige, about competing magicians, was adapted into film, by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman (and David Bowie, as Nikola tesla). Not to be confused with the American comics writer Christopher Priest; a misapprehension I laboured under for some time. You mean the former James Owsley? Yeah, since I knew he had changed his name, I never had that problem. |
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Post by foxley on Feb 3, 2024 21:09:35 GMT -5
Not to be confused with the American comics writer Christopher Priest; a misapprehension I laboured under for some time. You mean the former James Owsley? Yeah, since I knew he had changed his name, I never had that problem. Yeah, that's the one. I realised my mistake when I was posting something on this board about a Batman story written by Owsley, and discovered he had changed his name to Christopher Priest not long after that story was published. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 4, 2024 8:16:17 GMT -5
RIP to British novelist Christopher Priest, author of The Prestige, Fugue for a Darkening Island, The Glamour, The Inverted World, The Affirmation and The Separation. The Prestige, about competing magicians, was adapted into film, by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman (and David Bowie, as Nikola tesla). That's sad news indeed. I loved The Space Machine, his parallel take on War of the Worlds. He really knew how to tell a good story. May his memory be a blessing, and his works kept in print. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Feb 5, 2024 14:07:01 GMT -5
I'm seeing reports from several comics professionals today that comic artist Jose Delbo has passed at age 90. RIP Mr. Delbo.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 5, 2024 14:08:56 GMT -5
I'm seeing reports from several comics professionals today that comic artist Jose Delbo has passed at age 90. RIP Mr. Delbo. -M I see that J.L. Garcia-Lopez posted his condolences on Delbo's Facebook page. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 5, 2024 14:53:06 GMT -5
From a GCD group:
José Delbo's family is reporting that the artist passed away today:
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 5, 2024 16:48:17 GMT -5
Rob Allen and I met Mr. Delbo at Emerald City a few years back. I know I had him autograph a few books, probably issues of Wonder Woman, though I've forgotten which ones. He was a very nice, very humble man and it was a great pleasure to meet him.
Cei-U!
I lower the flag to half-mast!
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Post by Mormel on Feb 5, 2024 16:56:13 GMT -5
José Delbo's art on Transformers was my gateway into Marvel Comics, and I've always continued to appreciate his pencils, although he was perhaps not as highly regarded as some of the other contributors to the book. For my money, he drew dynamic action scenes, could convey emotion well in his robotic renderings of the Autobots and Decepticons, and had a knack of having many members of the sprawling cast of Transformers appear in the background of panels, going about their business. I'm grateful for the childhood memories!
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2024 8:21:51 GMT -5
90 years is a good run. I don’t think I ever bought anything he did.
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