I believe that the artist of this piece is a fellow by the name of John McCrea. I don't think that when I first saw it on twitter I gave it it's due credit but after a second look I started to like it more. I dunno what can I say that sort of thing happens sometimes with the fan art I find. It also reminds me of the cover art of issue 36 where you have Rom pissed off as Hell going all Terminator on the Dire Wraiths.
I can dig it!
ReplyDeleteRad art . That issue it reminds you of was one of my favorites when I was young and didn't have much ROM. That issue the evil was diabolic on a young reader .even more shocking when it seems our hero failed. I didn't read the follow up till early adulthood.very memorable issue for me.
ReplyDeletewith a cover like that how could it not be memorable? and the inside delivered there was that one seen where these two wraiths try to make off with ROM's neutralizer and he comes up from behind and grabs them by the necks and bashes their heads together into pulp. ya know back in the early 80s you just didn't see too much of that kind of graphic violence.
Deletebut in a way it was almost cooler when ROM as a clone in human form killed Doctor Dredd with his bare hands (see issue 43). at the end of the day it's not the cyborg armor that made him the greatest of the spaceknights but having the stones to kill a dire wraith with your bare hands that did. but as we all know ROM was cunning warrior too when he had to be like when he tricked Galactus into trying to consume Wraith World. ROM was just all sorts of bad ass. but these days thanks to the assholes at Marvel we don't even have Galador any more not to mention not having any REAL spaceknights around.
ROM looks angrier than I usually think of the dude, but like you the longer I look the more I like :)
ReplyDeleteThat looks great.
ReplyDeletemore great fan art coming up tomorrow.
DeleteI like it! I think you hit the nail on the head with the cover it reminded you of.
ReplyDeletemy May 1st posting is gonna have a ton of new fan art I've had stuff pouring in the last couple of days.
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