A big thanks to Gary for giving me a heads up about this commission piece by Brian Douglas Ahern for what I would assume is for a big time ROM and Micronauts fan. Most long time ROM fans will recognize the guy who's menacing the Micronauts as marvel's first evil spaceknight, Mentus. I like the creative aspect of this as a concept (taken from Micronauts 8) although I do have one little bit of criticism as far as the art work goes. I think the inking on ROM and The Micronauts is a bit too lite they lack depth but this is other wise a solid piece. There's also an interior page to go with this cover concept to help give it a bit more context . . .
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1258857&GSub=104286
Sept. 24th Update: Also just in from Gary who found this in the October issue of PREVIEWS comic book catalog magazine. Some of you may remember Christos Gage as the writer of the ill conceived 3 issue Hybrid return story arc from Avengers Academy a few years back. Well at least his heart was in the right place because he is something of a ROM fan. Plus we've seen this sort of thing before among marvel writers who like ROM like Abnett & Landing (The Annihilators) and Johnathan Hickman (Infinity).
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Stupid question time, but since I'm not up on my ROM and Micronauts history like you and commenters, did this never come to frution because both titles got cancelled around this time or was it because of something else?
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wanted to show you this:
http://siskoid.blogspot.com/2015/09/arrowed-rom-spaceknight.html
It's ROM fan art from possibly a mutual blogger friend, siskoid.
Okay, it was featured on his site, not by him actually. Sorry for the confusion.
ReplyDeletethere was never a cross over between ROM and the Micronauts back in the day because they were licensed properties from two different companies. i don't know why that would be a big deal but Marvel wasn't able to do some sort of specific cross over story line in spite of both titles having been fully integrated into the mainstream Marvel Universe.
DeleteSiskoid and i go way back to when i first started this blog he actually reviewed each issue of the entire series in this posting series called Spaceknight Saturdays but that was a long time ago his ROM related posting have been very sparse in recent years.
as for that art work it's been around on deviant art for quite a while but i've never cared for it other wise i would have posted it here. unlike what i posted here it lacks imagination and the digitally borrowed Helder M. ROM statue material is almost painfully obvious.
Ahern did one of the Rom proposals featured on my site: http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/comics/Rom/comic/return4.shtml. And I forgot Shlomo didn't care for Gage's work bringing Hybrid back. I got bad news for your regarding the co-writer of the upcoming IDW Rom comic, Shlomo....
Deleteyeah i've read that before by Ahern it's not bad ti does have some interesting aspects to it but at the same time it goes in directions i didn't care for. but still, i can appreciate how he put a lot of thought behind it.
Deleteas for the news about Gage co-writing the new ROM series yeah i just read about it last night. the thing is i don't think Christos Gage is a bad writer per se. i read at least one other Avengers Academy issue (issue 27 because it had my letter in it) and over all he's a pretty good writer but i just didn't like in particular how he handled Hybrid's return. i'm assuming now that IDW has full creative access to ROM himself Gage and Ryall can finally come up with something good. as opposed to marvel which for years now has been trying to write ROM related stuff with the "copy right handicap" and failing miserably at.
It does look resemble like Michael Golden art :) i like it
ReplyDeletewell the Micronauts themselves at the bottom of the cover art are directly borrowed from the original Michael Golden cover so there's that.
DeleteAh, ok. Gotcha.
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