Sunday, April 17, 2016

Bill Mantlo benefit art auction left overs in Portland

Shitty art work from past benefit auctions
Just got back from a weekend get away in Portland and paid a brief visit to Floating World Comics while I was there. They had some of these 11 X 17 glossy prints on a pretty thick paper stock of some of the art work from the past benefit auctions. Sadly none of them was of any of the good art that came out of those auctions. Most of the art work that came from those auctions were really amateurish and down right bizarre much of the time. Too bad, a high quality print of some of the better art work would have been a nice thing to take home with me. Those prints were only going for around $5 and there's no sales tax in Oregon.



So moving on to more satisfying matters. Just before I left for Portland I got a copy of Excalibur 121 in the mail which I bought on ebay. I think you can all guess why I wanted that issue and it came just in time to give me something to read on the plane even though Oakland to Portland is a fairly short flight. Some of the highlights is the opening sequence with the debriefing of Sabra by her superiors over a mission she under took with Excalibur.


When the story back tracks to the before mentioned mission we find out that Sabra doesn't play well with others here. Even when it came to fellow mutants she has a common heritage with (Kitty Pride ofcourse) things got of to a rough start. But toward the end of the mission Sabra gets a lesson in the value of team work which in turn may help explain her having been more of a team player (especially with Storm) in what would be the pages of future X-Men issues back then.

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  1. Gary Martin, Jr.April 17, 2016 at 9:37 PM

    That piece isn't too bad...I wonder who the artist is, can't make out the signature in your small photo. Of the handful of Spacenite artworks that we've only seen tiny/blurry photos online, the 2 that I wish would appear as big scans are the full-color Aaron McConnell 'Wonder ROM' toaster head with Brandy in kitchen, and one that looks like Brian Douglas Ahern aka Brizy's take on ROM #27 with Galactus & Deathwings on Wraithworld.

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    1. Shlomo Ben HungstienApril 17, 2016 at 10:20 PM

      didn't even notice that there was a signature some where in there but it's not like i would have cared either. i just grabbed one to take a picture of for the intention of a posting i thought up of at the time. as you know this is the kind of fan art i don't like it's not any sort of interpretation of ROM that makes sense to me it's just plain obscure and silly. but if nothing else i made sure to pick the one print they had that wasn't art (the word art used loosely here) that wasn't all over the internet already.

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  2. MassinissaApril 18, 2016 at 3:59 PM

    If you didnt know, apparently IDW is celebrating ROM by putting him on some alternate covers. I will show the Transformers ones, but they have them for other comics too I think.

    http://comicsalliance.com/rom-the-space-knight-transformers-variant-cover/

    http://www.newsarama.com/28897-rom-joins-robots-in-disguise-in-transformers-55-cover.html

    http://www.comicosity.com/exclusive-cover-reveal-transformers-till-all-are-one-2/

    Kinda cool that theyre trying to promote him this hard. Theyre not doing this kind of rollout for Micronauts to my knowledge. Probably because Ryall is IDWs editor-in-chief and this is his pet project.

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    1. MassinissaApril 18, 2016 at 4:21 PM

      http://www.freaksugar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/JEM-AND-THE-HOLOGRAMS-17-ROM-variant.jpg

      Heres another, this time from a Hasbro property that's not Transformers.

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    2. Gary Martin, Jr.April 18, 2016 at 8:34 PM

      Yep... http://www.equestriadaily.com/2016/04/idw-unveils-rom-spaceknight-theme.html

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    3. Gary Martin, Jr.April 18, 2016 at 8:36 PM

      This one's awesome! http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2016/04/rom-covers-month-reveal-gi-joe-real.html

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    4. Shlomo Ben HungstienApril 18, 2016 at 10:44 PM

      Just found something along the same lines I'm gonna update this post with but I need to wait till I get home in a couple hours where I'll have use of an actual computer and not just my iPhone.

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  3. Mr. Morbid's House Of FunApril 18, 2016 at 6:58 PM

    Ben Raab wrote it and Trevor Scott drew it. Trevor Scott's style would mature over the years and get better but here it's pretty cartoonish, but pretty standard 90's work. Pretty cool of Raab to include Sabra like that, as she hadn't been used at that point for at least 6 years when PAD had her star in Hulk in '92.

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    1. Shlomo Ben HungstienApril 18, 2016 at 8:27 PM

      Well that art work in Excalibur may not be of the caliber of the art from that Astonishing Tales issue with Sabra i had been blogging about last month but ill take it over Steve dikto's work from the 80s and 90s any day. That was some serious cartoonish crap.

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