End of June Rom fan art sightings & the 80s Sal Buscema Rom vs. HULK sketch art that you never knew existed!

The movie Prometheus inspired a series of these "June favorite aliens of the month" entries in which severl different aliens and alien characters are featured in this flying saucer and blue light scene. Rather then try to explain further it it's probably best you check the rest of em here: http://www.panelsonpages.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&p=62495#p61741

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 This Ego The Living Planet sketch is by artist Jeremy Haun which he did while at a Comic convention in St. Louise earlier this month. Ego looks great although it would have been nice if he had spent a bit more time on Rom. But on general principle I think it was pretty cool that out of all the more mainstream characters in the Marvel Universe who have encountered Ego over the decades that he decided to use Rom here. As many of you recall Rom encountered Ego in Rom issue 59 in which he freed fellow spaceknights Seeker and Scanner from Ego while also banishing numerous Wraiths in an act of mercy who had also been captured by Ego and were being slowly digested.

 I found this in a back ground photo of the wall space of  Floating World Comics in Portland Oregon. Thank goodness the photo image was really big so that I was able to enlarge and crop this sketch from it and present it here at a good size (magnify it!). Outside of the Sal Buscema signature at the bottom left I can't tell you anything else about it unfortunately. Needless to say this is beyond awesome it's nothing short of criminal that nobody has ever showcased this before anywhere for a broad audience. And remember true believers you saw it here first on the blog site for ROM fans who aren't dicks!

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  Cmon people make some noise in the comments section this is some pretty great stuff I found this week.

ROM spaceknight by Blah Blah T-Shirts for only $17.99. Plus some licensing red tape humor

Speaking for myself I would never buy a T-shirt that I didn't have the benefit of being able to try on first so I never buy clothing online. But for those of you who aren't as fussy as me this might be a good option for you in order to have your own ROM Spaceknight t-shirt. As you saw a couple of postings back I just went ahead and made one for myself. But I gotta ask, doesn't these guys currently selling a ROM t-shirt on a commercial basis with published art work from the series no less represent some legal issues? It makes me a bit suspicious how legit Blah Blah T-shirts might be but if you're interested in checking this out: http://www.blahblahtshirts.com/product_info.php?products_id=6617

Speaking of legal issues, here's something else I just found that was done recently I thought was worth sharing with you all. I like how in particular the cartoon makes references to how Marvel has been using Dire Wraiths so extensively in the last couple of years along with one of the alternate Reed Richards from FF #9 (Future Foundations) using "Rom's neutralizer".

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 "Taking a poke this week at toy merchandising and the effects of licensing rights on Marvel continuity. Personally, I say they just go “to hell with it,” release a series with ROM and the Shogun Warriors fighting Godzillla and the Micronauts, and just let the lawyers go nuts. Maybe with a walk on by Crystar (which apparently Marvel has always owned)."

Awesome original art of ROM & The Torpedo done in the "Marvel way"

Commission art by Ron Frenz

Have you ever heard the term "The Marvel Way" when it comes to comic book art? It describes a very classic art style that is both dynamic and fluid. The works of Sal and John Buscema are excellent examples. I thought much the same when I first laid eyes on this one by Ron Frenz. Aside from that, this piece by Frenz has such an 80s feel I love it!

Rom spaceknight vs Green Lantern

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At the moment my situation still blows but when I happened to come across this fan art by chance I decided to put some time aside to post it anyways. This is pretty sweet and I always love having a first shot at posting some new ROM fan art that hasn't made it's rounds on the internet much. This really makes me wonder what effect ROM's neutralizer would have on Green Lantern's power ring. Would it merely neutralize GL's constructs or could it go so far as to neutralize the power ring's connection to OA even?  Not to mention what sort of scenario could possibly have GL protecting the Dire Wraiths? A big thanks to the artist for doing this, good job Xum Yukinori.

1 plain white tee + 1 black Sharpie pen = instant custom ROM t-shirt

I found a well fitting t-shirt at some clothing discount outlet for only $2. Using some Rom fan art I created as vector line work in Adobe Illustrator (http://csuhsux.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4l4gou) as a template. Once a print out was placed underneath the fabric of the shirt I just took a brand new Sharpie I appropriated from work and decided to just go for it. The image is a bit blurry in this posting because of the close up focus of the snap shot.

Well folks, on the heels of this little accomplishment came some more bullshit news along with some other pending bullshit that has me really preoccupied at the moment. I'm going to be on hiatus for a while as of now for an undisclosed amount of time as I endeavor to sort out all the bullshit in my life right now. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Airbrushed ROM fan art for sale on ebay, but just for 3 more days. Plus some more none for sale fan art eye candy!

Apparently somebody made this by attaching a layer of pages from some ROM back issues onto either a board or fabric canvas and then spray painting the head shot image over that.You can find it easy enough on ebay by doing a key word search on the site (Rom spaceknight collage spray paint stencil original). The seller was nice enough to provide many close up photo images of it from different angles. It's going for $150 but it's only gonna be posted for 3 more days if you're interested.

Here's my latest find for Turbo fan art on Deviant Art. This is some pretty hot digital magic as you can see I bet this took a long time to do. Unfortunately I didn't have any luck getting in touch with the artist to get a couple of my questions answered.

Here we have some more stuff I found on Deviant Art. It's actually the top portion of a sketch that feature Deathlock, Rom and some unknown character. It's an all around good drawing but I cropped it because I really wanted to focus on the way ROM is drawn. That is some primo figure drawing going on there! The foreshortening, angle and proportions is excellent it's a damn shame it's not a more finished drawing. This is the kinda fan art I like to see and feature on this blog. I might have too do something with that ROM portion of this piece it has so much potential.

New Warriors 73 & ROM 16 re-covered. Plus, Rakk the renegade spaceknight custom figurine!

I put these covers together with some of the past fan art I've done. You may have seen the ROM issue on the recovered blog already but that guy was being an asshole about posting the New Warriors one so I'm posting it here instead. And just below we have the latest ROM related custom figurine. You all remember the infamous renegade spaceknight known as Rakk "the breaker"?

"Hello. This is my custom Breaker spaceknight action figure. I tried a few new things with this custom. He was made using an inexpensive base figure from goodwill. I believe it was a power ranger. The lack of articulation in the arms and waist bothered me at first but as this custom is really just for my collection, I used it anyway. All of the armor details including the helmet, are sculpted using magic-sculpt. I then primed the figure in black and dry-brushed a semi-gloss red over it. In the comics this character is really more of a burgundy color throughout, but I thought the bright red with burgundy accents suited him. I also tried outlining some of the armor details in black, just to break up some of that red. I've wanted a collection of Spaceknights ever since I was a child. Breaker's was always one of my favorite Spaceknight armors, so after Starshine I had to try him next. I hope you like the custom. Thank you for viewing! -Chris"

Rakk's first appearance was in ROM Annual #2. If you don't have it or have other wise never read it you can check out this Youtube slide show of that issue. Story by Bill Mantlo with pencils done by Sal Buscema and inks done by Akin & Garvey. This issue was an excellent example of how the melding of great story telling and art work made ROM such a great book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOmqDEWQGg&feature=related