Sometimes I like to think that perhaps on another Earth in a parallel universe Steve Dikto had never taken over as the pencilar on Rom. Maybe Sal Buscema was the pencilar for the entire 75 issue run. Or perhaps another pencilar had taken over like Mike Zeck, Michael Golden or John Byrne. Oh well at least there's always photoshop to help with a pleasant fantasy even though it flys in the face of reality.
Part 3 will have some actual house ads & promos again I promise.
Being a huge fan of Ditko's work, I recognise he looks outdated from the seventies... His 50s and 60s work is pure gold, though.
ReplyDeletehello Bruce welcome back amigo! Steve Dikto was a great man and creator in the comic book industry for his time certainly. but for ROM in the mid 80s he was not the right artist. it was a real let down from the dynamic and more angular style of Sal Buscema which had so much "energy". when a character got punched or was flying you almost could feel it as the reader.
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ReplyDeletetold ya you'd like it :) i give it a couple of days and then i'll post part 3. then we'll see if you knew about those house ads n' promos too.
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ReplyDeletePrime Director,
ReplyDeleteGreat series of posts!
As for Ditko, I agree with your assessment. It was too jarring a change from what had been.
To think that my first image of Beta Ray Bill may very well have been from ROM… Odin save me. And good ol' BRB doesn't even have Stormbreaker on that cover/in that issue. He's mistakenly wielding Mjolnir!
well thanks for dropping by i'm glad to see you're still around. as you can see i haven't run out of posting ideas here yet as amazing as that is.
DeleteThis is pure fun. The series would've been even that much better if Buscema had seen it through to the end. His replacement was not good, so it was just the writing/story which kept me reading through to ROM's conclusion.
ReplyDeleteWow, for a moment I thought the Secret Wars ad was real! It´s funny (and a bit of sad) to see Rom so integrated in the Marvel Universe back in the days.
ReplyDeleteintegrating Rom so well into the Marvel Universe i think definitely played a part in the books success, thanks for coming by David.
DeleteIndeed my friend this is a work of art!! Love the layout like this wow a True headline event if I saw one and well worth the time to bring it to its updated look!!!
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