Some Rom fan art that's down right biblical & some over due Sabra fan art (Plus more!)

By Iszy Iszard

I dunno about the rest of you all out there but when I first saw this piece it had a biblical feel to it kinda like the way sunlight pierces through cloud formations some times at that perfect point int he day. Rom almost has a messianic way about him here as one who is coming down from the heavens to cleanse us of our sins or more specifically of Wraith kind on Earth. All that aside this is good from a figure composition stand point and I like the muted use of colors they work well here. Rom's ignited rocket pods look especially awesome too.
This piece was done late last year but as I said before hardly a month doesn't go by where I don't discover any where from 3 - 4 newly created works of Rom fan art. Just as an example here are just a few links to some of the stuff from May alone. And we're not even quite half way through this month yet. Also, keep in mind these links are not the stuff I've featured here on this blog (both mine and others) from the month of May so all together that constitutes even more new Rom fan art.
http://browse.deviantart.com/art/Rom-368623770
http://browse.deviantart.com/art/Rom-370590321
http://browse.deviantart.com/art/Rom-367366991
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1009527&GSub=76187

And speaking of some of my own fan art here's some stuff I'm playing around with this weekend . . .

Yeah I know, one of those issues that sadly never was. It's too bad it would have been epic!

 

And speaking of all things biblical here's Marvel's greatest superhero from The Promise Land. After having been telling myself I'm going to be doing some Sabra fan art for months now I finally got my shit together this weekend and got it done. Check out all these different versions of Marvel MicroHeroes there are for Sabra: http://marvel-microheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Sabra_%28Ruth_Bat-Seraph%29

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Next up I'd like to talk about here is that among other things I've been watching the Dredd DVD this weekend. As I was watching the Extras (Mega-City Masters: 35 Years of Judge Dredd) look who I happened to notice among other commentators. IDW writer and Rom fan Chris Ryall who as many of you know has been in collaboration with the legendary Sal Buscema and helped make the recent Rom bonus pin up page a reality.

Alright I've got one more thing I'm going to add here that just got uploaded by K.O.T (ThekingofThessaly). Check out this cool Cloak N' Dagger tin that K.O.T uses for storage of his "herbal medicines". Plus, enjoy his latest back issue haul and him ripping on the Ghost Rider movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I0YBZTHsKg

Tony Stark doesn't always get the girl

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So I hope you all enjoy this bit of digital eye candy I put together in photoshop. In a manner of speaking there really was a team up between these two superheroes and something like this hypothetical scene actually did play out in the Rom series. If you recall Iron Man was among the superheroes that made an appearance in the now classic Rom spaceknight 65 which was the climatic battle ending the Wraith War on Earth. Iron Man was even on the cover art if you recall: http://siskoid.blogspot.com/2009/08/spaceknight-saturdays-lets-get-this.html  And lest we not forget he was also in the aftermath issue on both the interior and cover as well in #66: http://siskoid.blogspot.com/2009/08/spaceknight-saturdays-what-now-brown.html  Unfortunately ol shell head didn't have any lines in the before mentioned issues but he did in this cameo panel way back in Rom spaceknight #23. I bet even those of you who have this issue forgot about this one.

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Rom curator Gary Martin Jr.was also kind enough to remind me that Iron Man made flash back cameo appearances in Rom #50, 54 and 71. Despite having had my complete Rom collection for most of my life I never realized how often Iron Man appeared in the series in one way or another until I sat down and drafted this posting.
Also worth mentioning in Iron Man #190 Tony Stark used a hand held version of the neo-Neutrilizer (created by Forge to combat Dire Wraiths) to defeat the mutant Termite. To recap the issue:
http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/iron_man_189-190.shtml

 

And just in case you missed this custom Rom made from an Iron Man action figure the first time I posted it earlier this year.

And the awesome fan art just keeps on coming!

Free Comic Book Day was a bust. I didn't see anything that was of any interest to me all the free comics were crap and they were using the back issue bin area for more space so I wasn't able to do my usual foraging there for cool old school shit. But fear not as you can see here I've always got cool new stuff to showcase that I'm quite certain most of you haven't seen yet.

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Here's something I found on Deviant Art a Eddy Barrows who hails from Brazil. This amazing piece is named simply "Marvels" and I'm glad he included the greatest of the spaceknights in the mix.

And in this next piece by dann phillips from deviant art we're takn it all the way back to the tail end of the 70s with the three coolest toy based comics of their day.

More awesome Bill Mantlo characters inspired fan art coming in just a few days!

Rom, Silver Surfer, Nova and Quasar together for the first time

All this fan art I've been getting in recent weeks along with the Sal Buscema bonus pin-up page recently has gotten me all jazzed to do something myself. Here's a little something that's been in the back of my mind for a while now but until recently I hadn't been motivated to just sit down and do it.