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Also, here's some 80s nostalgia I bet most of you haven't seen before. I actually stumbled upon this years ago during a random Google search but lost the image when I accidentally closed the search window and was not able to find it again to save my life. I believe this is some sort of poster insert or possible splash page from Strange Magazine. Although the Strange art work here is original I'm pretty sure I know which classic ROM spaceknight issue was probably the direct inspiration for it...
http://berkeleyplaceblog.com/2018/06/12/rom-30-1982/
MASADA
I just wanted to open up the second half of this posting by saying that I'm not into Young Blood or anything else from Image Comics for that matter. But I do have an interest in Jewish super heroes in comics so I think this back story from Young Blood Strike Files #6 featuring Massada (code name taken from the biblical desert mountain fortress in Israel) is worth taking a closer look at. In this story a friend of Masada's goes awol (away with out leave) from the Israeli Intelligence in order to go on a personal crusade and take out an anti-Semitic hate preacher (Hashim) who is obviously based on the real life anti-Semitic hate preaching piece of pig shit louise farrakhan.
Concerned that her friend (Sibbechai) is going to get himself into some serious trouble while making a martyr out of the hate preacher she tries to track him down before he makes his move. Needless to say she has some mixed feelings about going after her fellow Jew especially if it results in saving the life of a filthy Jew hater like farrakhan . . . er I mean Hashim. Think of it in terms of Luke Cage being in a similar situation over david duke or a Mexican superhero with trump.
After a failed attempt to apprehend Sibbechai, Masada attempts to warn Hashim but he dismisses her warnings as part of some grand "Jewish conspiracy" to silence him.Ultimately she's forced to use her powers that enable her to enlarge her size (like you saw with Ant-Man in Avengers Civil War and more recently in Ant-Man & The Wasp) she manages to thwart the assassination attempt leaving the hate preacher only lightly wounded unfortunately. But as they say, haters gonna hate so ofcourse Masada having saved his miserable life does nothing to change Hashim's paranoid Jew conspiracy delusions. A bit of a predictable ending but pretty accurate none the less I'd say.
Nice Cap/ROM fan art.
ReplyDeleteI did a little digging myself in the matter by reverse image searching and found this site that has a whole slew of french reprint covers for Strange Magazine:
https://comixtreme2017.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/dossier-strange-le-point-sur-les-posters-et-supplements-du-magazine-culte/
They looks really cool, some even better than the original source covers.
Then I found this:
http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Rom_Vol_1_21
I think this is the story that the Strange magazine is based off. At least it appears to be.
Hope this helped.
I was a massive Image comics fan back in the early 90's as it was something totally different from the old and traditional characters I was used to with Marvel and DC, and definitely more edgier and hardcore too. Of course like I all good fads I drifted away from it later on, but man the years from '93-'96 were my prime Image collecting years. Were they mostly made out of derivative copycats of Marvel and DC characters? Sure? Was the art cruder? yes, and yes the stories were usually all over the place and nowhere near as good as their predecessors, but again, at the time, it was something new to latch onto and it definitely captured my imagination.
Just wanted to remind you that Youngblood issue came out of a box with more Image titles and the box was labeled as “The 25 cents Rob Liefeld section”.
DeleteLOL! I believe that. I'm sure there was plenty of his Phew 52 work in there as well.
DeleteThe image of Rom and the Torpedo was a 12"x18" poster that was included with Strange #174 in France. Thanks to Dale Bagwell's link above, I was able to find it in something Gary Martin Jr. provided.
ReplyDeletenow that i'm taking a second look at that first link Dale provided i just realized it's the cover art of the Strange issues in the left column juxtaposed with the fold out poster that comes with with whatever given issue on the right side column. Gary Martin Jr. has been in Limbo since January of 2017 to my knowledge has there been a recent sighting of him i'm unaware of?
DeleteI heard from him in April of this year. He's around, but contact is irregular, which is as much on me as him.
Deleteback in mid January of 2017 i posted something cool he had sent me recently but by the time February came around he had stopped returning my emails. i know it was around that time that he'd stopped communicating with me because i had found and posted some clip art that month of ROM reprinted in a new Hulk TPB. i mean it was a brand new TPB i was browsing at on a shelf for new books at this comic shop when i came across the particular page and i know letting Gary know about it right away was one of the the first things on my mind. it's the sort of thing that would have been of great interest to Gary under normal circumstances both from a curating stand point and because the fact that Marvel reprinted ROM's likeness as recently as that. but i never heard back from him about it or anything else i've posted since then both in terms of regular mail, email or the comments section here. i REALLY hate that shit but as you can see i'm getting along with out him just fine over here so fuck em.
ReplyDeleteIt's not been unusual for Gary to sometimes take a while to get back to me. (And, again, vice versa.) And he had computer issues for a while during 2017 that kept him from doing much online.
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