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| When the traitorous Blackblood first appeared, he was a slightly more portly robot (obviously having over-indulged on the oil of his dead enemies), who also proved himself to be a Monty Python fan... | |||
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| His portly stature remained until Carlos Ezquerra stepped in to handle the art on a three-part story (Progs 134-136), and we got a slimmer robot... | |||
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| While Kevin O'Neill gave us probably the first robot ever based on a pot-bellied cobra, Ezquerra gives hints of a skull-like Blackblood in his approach (right)... |  |
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The above images by Ezquerra provide an interesting contrast to his very Henry Flint-style offering in The Shadow Warriors (left)... | ||
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With Black Hole, Simon Bisley continued with the slimmer take, and gave Blackblood a slightly more evil look throughout the series... We also saw him reverting back to some of his old vices (right)... |
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| It was during Black Hole that Blackblood picked up one of his most recognisable attributes... | ||
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| With Kevin Walker taking on The Warriors we got Blackblood in all his full colour glory (right)... |  |
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After setting himself up as an intergalactic arms dealer, though, he invested in a change of wardrobe (left)... Ezquerra's skull-like face, lead to the two basic options
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| Blackblood always looks his best in basic black and white, as Liam McCormack-Sharpe showed during The Clone Cowboys... | ||
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Still flying the flag for fully painted artwork, however were Carl Critchlow (left) and Clint Langly (right)... | |
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| Meanwhile Kevin Walker turned in a more furtive rendition in Prog 2000's Roadkill... | ||
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| ...Dave Gibbons showed a very polished version... | ||
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| ...and Mike McMahon gave us this simply awful version during The Tripods... | ||
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| Last honourable mentions go to Bryan Talbot... | ...Boo Cook for his slack jawed version... |
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| ...Henry Flint for his monochrome version... | |
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| ...and Tom Artis, Doug Hazlewood and Rich Larson for Blackblood's appearances on the covers of the ABC Warriors series from Fleetway/Quality... | |
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