Ultimate Dolph

Jox wrote:Do you agree with this piece?
The Discount Spinner Rack: THE PUNISHER (1989)
https://the-avocado.org/2018/02/09/the- ... sher-1989/

Now 3 years in the making!
From 30-pages liner notes to an entire French book now turned into an English edition...

“...when I first went to work on this project, I had the feeling that people had a sort of perverse fascination with pictures of guns firing, literally on a graphic desire/design, and I said to myself, ‘Ok, you want pictures of guns firing, I’ll give you pictures of guns firing’, so I’d create this sequence where they take all of their guns and they blaze away continually for five minutes flat and they flatten the jungle and they blow down EVERYTHING.

And what I was really doing was, the Australian phrase ‘take the piss out of it’, to quietly ridicule the desire to see pictures of guns firing. All of this is sort of a moral separate piece here, and in order to do it I set up the circumstance where there were no human beings in front of the guns, where in fact the point of all the firing was, as the man says as soon as they stop shooting, ‘We hit nothing.’ The whole point was the impotence of all the guns. Which was just exactly the opposite of what believe I was being hired to sell.

Studios really are a bit dis-indigenous in there. This movie and some of the ones that followed it really did carry a pornographic desire to market images of gunfire; it was in the corporate purpose. And I wanted the job, so this was my compromise. I gave ’em more gun fire they could possibly desire, and at the same time I didn’t really advertise to little kids how wonderful guns are, or at least I thought I wasn’t.”
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The Toy Corner: Custom-Made Dolph Lundgren Punisher Action Figure

by Jason Elizondo

If you know anything about me, or follow me here on a regular basis, then I'm sure by now you know that Dolph Lundgren is my favorite action star, and his Punisher film is my favorite Punisher film. The character of The Punisher is also my all-time favorite comic book character, ever since I began collecting comics as a kid somewhere around 1988 or 1989.

As a straight-up adaptation of the titular character, I know the Mark Goldblatt 1989 low-budget classic isn't the most accurate or best representation of the character, but it has so many other things going for it that I can easily overlook it's faults. I just love it to death and I love Dolph's portrayal of the tortured soul who decides to save a bunch of rich children from the Yakuza, proving he does in fact have a heart inside that cold exterior. Sure I would have loved to have seen Dolph don the signature black tights, white go-go boots and gloves and the giant skull on his chest, but he still looks cool in his black leather getup. Am I right???



Recently I've gotten knee-deep into collecting toys again, more specifically vintage toys of my childhood. And that eventually lead to "custom action figures" in the style of old G.I. Joe's. When I met someone online who actually makes these custom figures of our dreams, the first one I commissioned was this bad boy, because I knew they would never make this dream a reality, so it would just be best to make my own, and Dan over at Death By Toys was the man to do it.

My specific instructions were to make him and the cardback size and style reminiscent of the vintage Joe figures of the 80's, but I pretty much left everything else up to him. And as you can see, he did not disappoint. I love this thing so much, and I'm over the moon about it. In fact, it's inspired me to try and start making my own soon, because there are a ton of action figures I'd love to see made from some of my favorite obscure 80's films. Stay tuned!!

In the meantime, please check out my friend Dan's shop and blog Death By Toys.

Jox wrote:A sneak peek at my book contents!
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lt.brannigan wrote:Would also like a Films of Dolph Lundgren book,