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Guy Dorian Sr., Ron Randall, Stuart Sayger, Paul D. Storrie, Brenna Thummler, Peter Tomasi, and Robert Venditi are coming to Baltimore Comic Con

Get your tickets for the 25th anniversary Baltimore Comic-Con, happening at the Inner Harbor’s Baltimore Convention Center this September 20-22! The Baltimore Comic-Con has announced comics guests Guy Dorian Sr. (courtesy of Comics & Gaming), Ron Randall, Stuart Sayger, Paul D. Storrie, Brenna Thummler (courtesy of Third Eye Comics), Peter Tomasi, and Robert Venditi appearing at the 25th Anniversary event! Go to the convention website for information on ticketing, other announced guests, cosplay events, gaming, and more!

Guy Dorian Sr., appearing courtesy of Comics & Gaming (Booth #1107), is a comic book artist, toy designer, and cinematic art designer with over 30 years of experience who has worked for some of the largest mainstream companies in the world, including Marvel, DC, IDW, JusToys, 20th Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment, and Storm King Productions, as well as on several Hollywood films. You can see his work as an inker for Marvel Entertainment products all over the world in magazines, coloring and activity books, video games, wall posters, cups, hats, t-shirts, and more. You name it, he’s done it!

In comics, Guy has worked on titles such as The New WarriorsMarvel Comics Presents, and Night Thrasher. He is also the co-creator of the character Scorch alongside Dan Slott, who has appeared in Marvel comics and the TV series Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. His more recent comic works include pencils in ROM for IDW, ROM and The MicronautsJohn Carpenter’s HyperbreedGI Joe: A Real American Hero, and the list keeps going!

In toy design, Guy has worked on toys for some of the world’s greatest wrestlers including Bret Hart, Doink The Clown, Randy Savage, Shawn Michaels, and the Undertaker for the original “Bend ‘Ems” toy line from 1994-1998, and recently announced working with The Major Wrestling Figure Company’s Randy Savage design and trading card. He has also designed toys for The TickHerculesXena, and Youngblood.

In cinema and television, Guy has worked on the X-Men: Apocalypse movie posters as well as the character development for the Silver Surfer cartoon series. A great Easter egg is that his first cover for an independent company was used as a poster featured in Kevin Smith’s cult classic, Chasing Amy.

Mr. Dorian continues to work alongside many of the world’s greatest comic book legends, as well as major Hollywood producers to soon release new TV series and films of his own creations. Also upcoming comic and toys are Mounties vs. Werewolves with Larry Hama and Lost Landers (lostlanders.com) toys and comics with his partner and co-owner of Bamco Toys Inc., Thomas Chillemi. 

This man knows how to keep many irons in the fire and there’s barely a corner of the world his artwork hasn’t touched at some point!

Come meet Mr. Dorian!

Ron Randall is the creator/writer/artist of the scif-fi comic series Trekker, featuring bounty hunter Mercy St. Clair. He produces and publishes continuing volumes of the series through a wildly successful string of Kickstarter campaigns.

In addition to his work on Trekker, Ron is known for his decades of work with DC, Marvel, Dark Horse. and others on titles as varied as SupergirlStar WarsSwamp ThingVenomPredatorJustice League, and many more. www.ronrandall.com

Stuart Sayger is a professional illustrator who works primarily in the comic book industry. Known for his moody atmospheric art, Sayger first broke into the industry as the creator of Shiver in the Dark, producing the comic independently from start to finish. Recent projects include producing covers for GI JoeDejah ThorisJeepers CreepersVampirella, and covers for KISS and Bloodshot. Past comic book projects include: Walking DeadX-Files30 Days of NightXena Warrior PrincessLego BionicleMicronauts, and Rom. Sayger has also produced art for the Man of Steel Superman movie as well as many other Warner Bros. Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman projects! www.stuartsayger.com

Paul D. Storrie started writing comics professionally in 1998 with Robyn of Sherwood, about the daughter of Robin Hood, at Caliber Comics. Since then, he was written for numerous publishers including Marvel, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Moonstone Books, Lerner Books, Source Point Press, and Storm King. He is, perhaps, best known for his work on the DC Animated Universe Comics Batman BeyondJustice League AdventuresJustice League Unlimited, and Gotham Girls. His most recent works include the Eisner-nominated John Carpenter Presents Storm Kids: Stanley’s Ghost and the follow up, Stanley & the Forgotten Forest.

Brenna Thummler, appearing at 5pm on Saturday courtesy of Third Eye Comics (Booth #901), has always known her life is haunted. Much like Marjorie Glatt, she grew up in a small Pennsylvania town, where piano practice and ghost stories were part of her daily routine. It wasn’t until she attended Ringling College of Art and Design, however, that she realized her passion for storytelling (as well as her hatred of laundry). Now back in her hometown, she spends her days drawing, writing, and suspicious of her sheets.

Peter J. Tomasi, recipient of the 2018 Inkpot Award for achievement in comics, is a New York Times best-selling author known not only for his writing on SupermanBatman and RobinSuper SonsGreen Lantern CorpsBatman-Detective Comics, and many more, but also as an award-winning group editor at DC Comics for 15 years where he ushered in new eras for BatmanJustice Society of AmericaGreen Lantern, and the best-seller, Kingdom Come

Tomasi is also the author of House of Penance, nominated for best graphic novel at 2018 Angouleme International Comic Festival, Light BrigadeThe MightyBlood Tree, and the critically-acclaimed graphic novel The Bridge: The Building of the Brooklyn Bridge published by Abrams ComicArts. Tomasi also wrote the screenplay for the popular animated film Death of Superman, and his screenplay for The Bridge was on The Black List as one of the best unproduced Hollywood scripts of that year.

Robert Venditti is a New York Times bestselling author whose characters and stories have been adapted to film, television, animation, and video games. Some of his works include the monthly comic book series Superman ’78HawkmanGreen Lantern, and Justice League for DC Comics, X-O Manowar and Wrath of the Eternal Warrior for Valiant Entertainment, and the graphic novel Six Days, inspired by the story of his uncle’s participation in D-Day. He has also adapted Rick Riordan’s global bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus series. His most recent projects include OrdainedPlanet Death, and MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious.


This year’s confirmed guests for the show include: Arthur Adams (Longshot), Rodney Barnes (Killadelphia), Jeremy Bastian (Cursed Pirate Girl), John Beatty (Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars), Rose Besch (Miles Morales: Spider-Man), Russ Braun (The Boys), Brett Breeding (Superman), Tom Brevoort (courtesy of Hero Initiative, FCBD 2023: Avengers/X-Men), Mark Brooks (Immoral X-Men), Mark Buckingham (Fables), Jim Calafiore (NED, Lord of the Pit), Chris Campana (Amazing Spider-Man), Richard Case (Doom Patrol), Castillo Studios, Keith Champagne (Stranger Things), Howard Chaykin (Time Squared), Sean Chen (Genesis), Cliff Chiang (Paper Girls), Frank Cho (Harley Quinn), Michael Cho (Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories–Qui-Gon Jinn), Amy Chu (KISS: The End), Matthew Clark (Adventures of Superman, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Katie Cook (Nothing Special), Joe Corallo (King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, courtesy of Mad Cave Studios), Vito Delsante (Stray), Todd Dezago (The Perhapanauts), Guy Dorian Sr. (courtesy of Comics & Gaming, Lost Landers), Rich Douek (A Phone Call Away, courtesy of Mad Cave Studios), Scott Dunbier (Jim Lee’s X-Men Artist’s Edition, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Danny Earls (The Incredible Hulk), Ben Edlund (The Tick), Chris Eliopoulos (Ordinary People Change the World), Steve Epting (New Avengers), David Finch (Moon Knight), Trish Forstner (Feral), Franco (Teen Titans Go to the Library), Sam Freeman (Hound, courtesy of Mad Cave Studios), Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (DC Nation), Ron Garney (BZRKR), Mitch Gerads (Mister Miracle), John Giang (courtesy of Macmancomics, Spider-Man), Sanford Greene (Bitter Root), Gene Ha (Mae), Garrett Gunn (courtesy of CBCS, Good Boy), Bob Hall (West Coast Avengers), Cully Hamner (Blue Beetle), Bo Hampton (Batman: Castle of the Bat), Scott Hanna (Amazing Spider-Man), Tony Harris (The Whistling Skull), Dean Haspiel (The Red Hook), Glenn Hauman (They Keep Killing Glenn), Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool), Marc Hempel (Sandman), Kyle Higgins (Radiant Black), Derek Hunter (Walking Dead: Small Bites), Jamie Jameson (American Gods), Nikkol Jelenic (Midnight Rose), J.G. Jones (Wanted), Dan Jurgens (Action Comics), Jamal Igle (Superman), Klaus Janson (courtesy of Hero Initiative, Daredevil), Dave Johnson (100 Bullets), Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Aliens), Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer), Chris Kemple (Artist Alley Comics), Karl Kesel (Impossible Jones), Tom King (Wonder Woman), Barry Kitson (Amazing Spider-Man), Scott Kolins (The Flash), Dan Krall (House of Night), Emma Kubert (Inkblot), Greg Land (Symbiote Spider-Man), Jim Lee (Superman, Friday and Saturday only), Lucas Lee-Garza (Friday and Saturday only, Wallow), Greg Land (Symbiote Spider-Man), Jeph Loeb (Batman: The Long Halloween), Sam Maggs (Marvel Action: Captain Marvel), Anthony Marques (The Green Hornet), Laura Martin (Nubia: Queeno f the Amazons), Shawn Martinbrough (Friday and Saturday only, Red Hood: The Hill), Ron Marz (Silver Surfer), Whitney Matheson (Pandemix: Quarantine Comics in the Age of ‘Rona), Jeff McClelland (The Tick), Charlie McElvy (Spider-Squirrel), Mike McKone (Red Goblin), Bill McKay (courtesy of CBCS, Zombie Tramp), Bob McLeod (New Mutants), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), Adriana Melo (Action Comics), Al Milgrom (Spectacular Spider-Man), Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise), Mark Morales (Thor), Drew Moss (Thundercats), Ian Chase Nichols (The Tick), Fabian Nicieza (courtesy of Hero Initiative, Deadpool), Tom Nguyen (The Switch), Jerome Opena (Uncanny X-Force), Ryan Ottley (Invincible), Chas! Pangburn (Double Booking, courtesy of Mad Cave Studios), Dan Parent (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Andrew Pepoy (Simone & Ajax), David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Brandon Peterson (Uncanny X-Men), Khoi Pham (Star Wars: Darth Vader), Nick Pitarra (Ax-Wielder Jon), Stephen Platt (Moon Knight), Andy Price (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic), Tim Probert (Lightfall), Joe Pruett(Black-Eyed Kids), Ron Randall (Trekker), Tom Raney (Green Lantern), Mark Redfield (Vampire Hunters Incorporated), Amy Reeder (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur), Rod Reis (C.O.W.L.), Afua Richardson (Omni), Sam Romesburg (Hound, courtesy of Mad Cave Studios), Don Rosa (Uncle $crooge), Peter Rostovsky (Damnation Diaries), Jennifer Rouse (Frankenstein Mobster), Craig Rousseau (The Perhapanauts), Ethan Sacks (A Haunted Girl), Alex Saviuk (Web of Spider-Man), Stuart Sayger (The Joker), Daniel Scott Jr. (Save Now), Alex Segura (Secret Identity, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Liam Sharp (X-O Manowar Unconquered), Don Simpson (Megaton Man), Louise Simonson (The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special), Walter Simonson (Thor), Matt Slay (Equilibrium), Matt Slay (Equalibrium), John K. Snyder III (Suicide Squad), Mark Sparacio (Omega Paradox), Jim Starlin (Dreadstar), Joe Staton (Dick Tracy), Ryan Stegman (X-23), Brian Stelfreeze (Black Panther), Paul D. Storrie (Storm Kids: Stanley’s Ghost), Karl Story (The Mandalorian), Joshua “Swayart” Swaby (Star Wars), Babs Tarr (Batgirl of Burnside), Martha Thomases (Second-Hand Rose), Peter Tomasi (Batman and Robin), David Trustman (Gregor!), Gus Vazquez (Sunfire and Big Hero Six), Robert Venditti (Tankers), Wade von Grawbadger (Justice League), Lee Weeks (Batman/Catwoman Special), Mark Wheatley (Skultar), Jeremy Whitley (Navigating With You, courtesy of Mad Cave Studios), Matt Wieringo (Stargate Atlantis: Gateways), Keith Williams (Thor the Worthy), Stephanie Williams (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons), G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel), Rich Woodall (Electric Black), John Workman (Wild Things), David Yardin (Daredevil: Woman Without Fear), Kelly Yates (Doctor Who), Leinil Francis Yu (Wolverine), Thom Zahler (Love and Capes).

Review: ROM: Dire Wraiths

Rom: Dire Wraiths

The first season of the epic Right Stuff on Disney+ is more than good television. The show gives us a behind the scenes look at some iconic figures, astronauts. Hearing these names growing up, and especially in school, we tend to give them a reverence that makes them infallible. The series shows them as very much human. It also showed what made them so heroic, embracing that indomitable spirit that we all aspire to. ROM: Dire Wraiths uses those iconic space explorers for a new twist on history.

Going into space seems so farfetched for so many of us that we often tether it to science fiction stories. We often think about aliens and unidentified flying objects. This is often met with skepticism and never really with actual thought. In ROM: Dire Wraiths we get a story that uses the real-life events of the Space Race and asks what if “we ran into a dangerous alien race while exploring space?”

We’re taken to 1969, where three astronauts are on the Adventure One, a secret mission that monitors alien life when they detect traces of life on the Moon, which looks to be more than they could ever imagine. Wraith soldiers are holding camp and look to send a message to any humans from Earth, as they ascend on the astronauts right before they plant the flag. From there, a battle with ROM and other forces begins in a battle to end the Wraith threat.

Overall, ROM: Dire Wraiths is a nice story that is an interesting prequel to a well-established hero. The story by Chris Ryall has echoes of Harlan Ellison and Richard Matheson, which is both exciting and scary. The art by the creative team is gorgeous. Altogether, a story that should bring this character a bigger fan base.

Story: Chris Ryall Art: Sal Buscema, Guy Dorian Sr., Ron Joseph, and Luca Pizzari
Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy

IDW Publishing provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review


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Preview: Rom: Dire Wraiths #1 (of 3)

Rom: Dire Wraiths #1 (of 3)

(W) Chris Ryall (A) Guy Dorian, Sal Buscema (A/CA) Luca Pizarri
In Shops: Jan 15, 2020
SRP: $4.99

“Inhumanauts,” Part 1: In 1969, two American astronauts became the first humans to set foot on Earth’s moon… but they found something inhuman waiting for them! With Rom the Spaceknight nowhere in sight, can even the Earth Corp help prevent one giant leap for Wraithkind? Plus! Find out where Rom is in a special back-up story with art by Guy Dorian Sr. and Rom legend Sal Buscema!

Rom: Dire Wraiths #1 (of 3)

Preview: ROM: Tales of the Solstar Order #1 Special Edition

ROM: Tales of the Solstar Order #1 Special Edition

Plot and Script: Chris Ryall & Christos Gage
Art: Guy Dorian Sr
Ink: Sal Buscema
Color: Alessandra Alexakis
Letterer: Shawn Lee
Original Series Editor: Carlos Guzman, David Mariotte
Editor: Chris Ryall

“Battle Scars!” This special re-presentation of Rom comic co-creator Sal Buscema’s storied return to the character is presented in a single issue for the first time, along with bonus art, an interview with Buscema, and other cool extras!

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Preview: Rom, Vol. 3: The Roads to Ruin

Rom, Vol. 3: The Roads to Ruin

Chris Ryall, Christos Gage (w) • David Messina, Sal Buscema, Guy Dorian Sr. (a) • Drew Moss (c)

The Dire Wraiths have escaped to Earth, but one of the Knights of the Solstar Order has hounded them and kept them underground for centuries. Feared more than all others, he is Rom, the Wraithslayer. Rom now has help in his war against the Dire Wraiths in the form of additional Solstar Knights and super-powered human allies… so why is the battle going from bad to worse? The Wraiths’ master plan grows and Rom can’t even see it, let alone find any way to stop it. Collects issues #10–14.

TPB • FC • $17.99 • 128 pages • ISBN: 978-1-68405-032-1