Clearly the ROM Marvel Legends figure is a big hit with both ROM fans and action figure collectors alike and for good reason it is among other things a masterpiece of manufacturing. People out there who have gotten there's have come up with some great scenes to stage them in that pays tribute to the original series and it's tie-ins, these are some of my favorites. A nice fella over on Farcebook was telling me earlier that that a local Target store sold out more then once of their ROM figures which certainly suggests ROM has broader appeal then I might have originally suspected and that overall the figures are selling well both online and at whatever retail locations they may be at. The Omnibus collection along with all the other reprint iterations also appear to be fairly successful as well despite the hefty price tag in some cases.
On an interesting side note, back in the early 2010s it seems like what ROM fans were mostly clamoring for was a return of ROM to the Marvel Universe but I think that changed during the next decade. There's a number of reasons for that I think stemming from the legal red tape. A lot of it is due to the poorly handled ROM related continuity Marvel Comics had been doing but also in general it's because of an overall dissatisfaction with comic book stories these days. I think IDW's short lived and divisive reboot also was a contributing factor. In short, I think ROM fans ultimately gave up somewhere along the lines of ever getting what they really wanted when it comes to new comic stories with their favorite spaceknight and shifted their focus more on pushing for high end reprints of the original series and for articulate action figures. And that's what they ended up getting which is more then I ever expected to happen to be honest.
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Well, I finally got around to seeing Captain America Brave New World now that it's on streaming. Yeah it pretty much lived up to all the mediocre reviews but it also had a bit of a silver lining for me at least. After what, nearly two years of of all these leftist antisemites trying to get "Sabra" removed from the movie I finally get to see the finished product for myself. Given that Shira Hass was cast as Ruth Bat Seraph you knew right away this wasn't going to be a very comic accurate representation although it would have gone a long way for a number of reasons to still at least make her a mutant or perhaps some other manner of enhanced individual.
As someone who was part of president Ross's security detail she never went by the code name Sabra but at least it was established in the movie that she was born in Israel so that was a big plus. No mention of her being russian or otherwise stripping her of her Israeli identity as was rumored on social media despite it also being established she was an ex black widow. With all the re-shoots, re-edits and endless other productions problems it's hard to know for sure how they originally envisioned Ruth Bat Seraph a.k.a Sabra for this film. But I would say the antisemitic BDS losers out there definitely did not get their way on this one given that this movie still had an Israeli actress playing an Israeli born character named Ruth Bat Seraph. So thank you MCU for basically giving all those BDS assholes the middle finger.
June 15th Update: If you're at paying attention to the news you may have heard about the latest and worst round of open warfare between ISRAEL and the filthy terrorist iranian regime. It's times like this I really really wish we lived in a world of real superheroes. All that being said the fighting men and women of Israel's armed forces are among some of the most amazing people in the world and this latest fan art of mine is dedicated to them and to Operation Rising Lion.
And in my latest comic book sci-fi pop culture public art discovery. I spotted this classic Ditko style Spider-Man mural in San Jose California on the side of some smoke shop/novelty store. Although I am not a fan of Ditko's later work in the late 70s, 80s and 90s I can still appreciate him as an artist for his time.
