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| Loston Wallace |
This morning I came across this cover art for one of the myriads of cover variants. This particular one is one of the few examples of the endless interpretations of ROM that IDW likes to keeping putting out there. Apparently some sense of consistency with ROM's design when it comes to these cover variants is not much of a priority. However, it so happens that this particular interpretation represents what I think would have been a good or at least acceptable updated look for a 2016 ROM spaceknight series. We'll assume he doesn't have the over sized anime feet bell bottom look going on in here but that aside what you see here is a look I could have gotten into. I'm at such a loss to understand why this kind of look couldn't have been just as marketable for a new ROM series here in 2016 same as what IDW ultimately came up with not to mention it would have gone a long way to not alienating so many of the faithful such as myself. Especially if they had stuck with the original concepts for ROM's neutralizer, analyzer and translator barring some minor design updates. And to think IDW actually had something like this at first (zero issue cover) but continued to make more design changes until they ended up with what you now see when you actually open up the zero issue and ROM #1. It just blows me away that these concepts and final decisions for this new series were made by old school ROM fans. And now, some of my favorite moments in terms of art and writing from the one and only Greatest of the spaceknights.
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| Damn straight! |
August 11 update
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| Custom dire wraith figure by Chris Motito |
Here's a little something from the good ol days that turned up on deviant art if you want to see more with different angles go here
http://custom777.deviantart.com/ I'm sure Chris will be happy to tell us more photos about his latest custom including what he used as the base figure and so on. Also, be on the look out for a recent
Rainbow spaceknight custom figure when you're in Chris's art gallery.
hey, i had this comic when Rom meets Luke Cage, and then they go to the Baxter Building to get a Skrull spaceship to get to Galador. It´s timeless :)
ReplyDeleteI still have to catch up with the new series to give my opinion.
yeah that was one of many great issues with great art complimenting great writing. speaking for myself i've seen enough of the new series to know that it's garbage starting with the way ROM looks.
Deletemaybe it was a copyright issue, it can be Rom but not exactly Rom as Marvel drew him.
DeleteSame thing with Michael Bay transformers, i think it´s a trick to milk some rights
No, IDW now has the legal right to publish ROM's name and likeness and like I said in the posting I don't need the new series to make ROM look exactly how he did in marvel.
DeleteHey Shlomo, i updated my blog with a few comic strips, i´d love to hear your thoughts there:
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Hello fellow ROM fans! Thanks to Shlomo for featuring my new Dire Wraith custom! Here's some info on her for the curious,..I used a "Maurice" ape figure from planet of the apes as a base. The entire figure was stripped down and sanded using a hot knife and a dremmel tool. Then it was sculpted over. The eyes,fingers and toes are a hot glue mixture. The tongue is fully pose-able and is made from a wire and some tubing. I hope you guys like her! Let me know what you think! Thanks guys!
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Great female Chris! Looks awesome. I also loved your Rainbow I saw you got to about a week ago. Spacekight sexy!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Joe! I really appreciate it man! I hope to have some more "classic" ROM stuff done soon! Thanks again, brother!
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