Sunday, December 20, 2015

ROM Jedi spaceknight. The Force is strong with this one! Yeah I just saw Star Wars

Fan art by J.K. Woodward
Perfect art work to go with this posting topic don't you think? In the back of my head I know I remember seeing some ROM wielding lightsaber fan art at one point and thankfully I was able to find it after doing a little digging. This concept isn't that crazy after all Jedi knights and spaceknights do have a lot in common.

But let's get on with what I really wanted to talk about . . . STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS! Let me start off by saying thank god is wasn't The Farce Reawakens as in another prequel quality film. I don't know if it was that The Force was with Abrams or that it was George Lucas having nothing to do with the production. Or perhaps it was some kind of combination there of but either way we finally got a pretty good Star Wars movie even though it took 32 fucken years. It wasn't sufficient to simply get something that was better then the prequels that would have been too easy of a project. It didn't have to be as epic as the original trilogy it just had to a solid sequel to the original trilogy and have at least a little bit of that old school SW magic. And ofcourse, no major fucks ups although it having some little things to nit pick at was pretty much unavoidable.
Well I'd say this movie pulled it off for the most part. At this point we can regard the prequels as nothing more then George Lucas's private project of his interpretation of the back story to the original trilogy. I mean many of the basics such as events like The Clones Wars is established history ofcourse but specific shit like jar jar binks might as well just be some obscure character that briefly appeared in one of the countless comic book spin offs over the years. And speaking of comics, it's the same as I've been saying about all the ROM related shit marvel has pumped out in the last 5 years it just never happened as far as I'm concerned. Same goes for the 2001 Spaceknight mini-series. So, who else out there The Force Awakens? Likes, dislikes or general opinions about the movie I'd like to hear from you.

Quickie sketch by yours truly
So the other matter I'd like to discuss here is the latest ROM related rumors swirling around the internet. In particular about a possible movie project for which I've received links to by several people already. Keep in mind ROM movie rumors have been around for many years now and they've proven to be as substantive as the rumors about ROM's return to marvel which we've had no shortage of over the years as well. And even when the director of The Guardians of The Galaxy talks about how he would like to include ROM in a future movie it doesn't make it any less fan boy wishful thinking then when some anonymous person says the same in an article. I mean is it possible it might happen someday as it did for The Transformers or G.I.Joe? Sure, but it could just as easily not ever happen and I'm not gonna get all sprung on something so very speculative at this time. The ROM Zero Issue in May next year and the series to follow are all coming that's for sure the rumors are long over so that's where the focus of my excitement is. Aside from that there's also talk about how ROM, The Transformers, G.I.Joe, M.A.S.K and perhaps even The Micronauts may inhabit the same IDW Universe. That's probably more plausible to me then a future ROM movie. If that is the case the cross over story line potential would be huge and would need to be handled by some very talented writers in order to do the characters justice. But even that stuff is probably a ways off if it happens, right now I just want to see a good ROM comic book series and hopefully the same for The Microanuts.

P.S. Venom spaceknight has nothing to do with actual spaceknights or ROM himself. It's just a title marvel added to Venom now that he's gone cosmic. So stop getting all worked up it's more of much to do about nothing from the assholes who are running marvel comics these days.

By Dann Phillips
Dec. 22 Update
It seems I'm not the only one who's been recently inspired to do some fan art with the IDW version of ROM.

10 comments:

  1. Wow I love that ROM and starscream sketch!! The force awakens was awesome !! It did have a bit of that old charm.It felt like a return to form of real star wars including the new cast. Harrison Ford was awesome and spot on in his role. Sure there only a few corny lines for us fans like "wheres the weak spot these always have a weak spot" etc but trash compactor line made me smile. How the force awakes in Rey was ok me too. Lots of hidden voices calling in that part. It was awesome.

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    1. so far that's everybody's reaction to the movie they loved it. although i liked it my feelings about the movie are a bit more tempered. i think the bursting enthusiasm about it fits more my reaction to when i saw the original trilogy then this movie. but like i said it was pretty good as a follow up story. i definitely feel like i need to see it one more time to really take it all in. but off hand some of the little things that bugged me were the following:
      they really could have a done a better design on Kylo Ren's mask
      i know they're saving a lot of stuff for the next movie but i think they could have given us a bit more info on this "supreme leader" guy
      i was expecting that storm trooper with the gold armor to do something at some point in the movie given that she was obviously some kind of stand out character but . . .
      i knew that the movie was packed with homages to the original trilogy but part of me feels like maybe some of it was a bit too derivative perhaps?

      glad you liked that ROM vs Starscream sketch with any luck you might get to see the real thing some day from IDW.

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  2. Yeah I agree the Supreme leader left with us with many questions but its definitely intriguing. Not so much with captain phasama .She did hardly anything and wasnt very bad ass at all. I loved how Kylo went bat shit crazy when things didnt go his way.he definitely has anger issues.

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  3. I absolutely loved the new movie. I feel like we finally got a Star Wars movie that lives up to the name. One that kids today will remember the same way we remember the original.

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    1. I do have to say I liked the basic story line set with how Han and Liea's marriage fell apart after they "lost" thier son. That had a good sense of realism especially with how they became semi-estranged and went back to the lives they had before they met. A disillusioned Luke having gone into his self imposed exile made a lot of sense to. But getting back to this supreme leader character didn't they also refer to him as "snook" or something like that? Maybe a less Jersey Shore sounding name might have worked better for this ominous and mysterious new villain?

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  4. hahaha Rom destroying StarScream! like Marvel heroes interacting with the Transformers. I had that comic in which Spiderman and Gears face Megatron.

    and yeah, "The Force Awakens" was a marvel to behold. hehe but in defense of George Lucas, this movie kinda feels like JJ Abrams fan-fiction, as there was already 30 years of post ROTJ comics, depicting the lifes of Han Solo and Leia 3 KIDS, and just one of them, Anakin Solo turned to the dark side.

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    1. hey amigo good to hear from you over here again. Marvel Comics back in the 80s was the first publisher i believe to have post Return of The Jedi stories. but i remember back in the early 90s (or was it the tail end of the 80s?) when Darkhorse published their first mini-series with a post Return of The Jedi story a lot of people were pretty excited about that. but beyond some of that stuff i never really followed any of the countless post Jedi comic book mini-series and novels. i think it was better i went into this movie with out all that stuff in the back of my mind.

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  5. hey, just a quick question, where´s my blog on your links list? I have been translating to english my comic strips, it´s a good starting point :)

    http://onyxbrigade.blogspot.com.br/

    i also have your link there and i´ll begin spamming the world

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    1. not sure what happened before but no problem amigo i can fix that right now.

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    2. thank you Sir! as you can see your blog link is there too, and i´m spamming in googleplus so maybe you´ll get more visitors too!!

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