#romeo tanghal

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Archive Edition #3 by Sid Jacobson, John Buscema, Romeo Tanghal, Julianna Ferriter and Colortek. Cover by Buscema and Tom Palmer. Variant cover by Dan Panosian. Out in June.

"Will Sarah succumb to the power of the Goblin King and his enchanting promises, or will she realize her true power and see his cruelty for what it is and rescue Toby? Most of all, as she reflects on how she's grown along the way, she'll never forget the friends she's made, and how she'll always need them!"

#jim henson's labyrinth: archive edition #jim henson's labyrinth #labyrinth 1986 #labyrinth #sarah williams #jareth the goblin king #jareth #boom studios #sid jacobson #john buscema #romeo tanghal #julianna ferriter #colortek #tom palmer #dan panosian #variant cover #comics

[dcbinges]

Pin-up art from Vigilante #8 (1984) by Romeo Tanghal

#romeo tanghal #adrian chase #vigilante #dc #dc comics #comics #80s comics #80s #pin up

[splooosh]

Alien Mystery

Jose Louis Garcia Lopez - Romeo Tanghal

#Azrael #New Teen Titans #Titans #Romeo Tanghal #Jose Luis Garcia Lopez #Earth 1

[thefugitivesaint]

John Buscema (1927-2002) & Romeo Tanghal, ''Marvel Super Special - Labyrinth'', 1986 Source The conversation between Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) and the worm remains my favorite scene from the movie (in case anyone was wondering).

#john buscema #romeo tanghal #labyrinth #jim henson #marvel comics #comic adaptation #I'm just a worm

[tomoleary]

Ross Andru and Romeo Tanghal - Weird War Tales #113 G. I. Robot Cover Original Art (DC, 1982) Source

As published and a re-creation by Romeo Tanghal

#ross andru #romeo tanghal #G. I. Robot

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BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #146

Every so often, BRAVE AND THE BOLD would pair the Caped Crusader up with one of DC’s war comics heroes such as Sgt. Rock. In some instances, the stories would be set in contemporary times, with the guest star seemingly well-preserved despite the passage of years. In other instances, Batman would be alive and active during wartime with no attempt made to explain it–not that this story took place…

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#Batman #Bob Haney #Brave and the Bold #Daily Planet #DC #Fred Hembeck #Paul Levitz #Romeo Tanghal #Unknown Soldier

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George Perez will always be the 🐐!

#dc comics #dc heroes #dc women #tales of the teen titans #new teen titans #teen titans #dc titans #titans #the judas contract #george perez #Romeo Tanghal #marv wolfman #tara markov #terra #Deathstroke #donna troy #starfire #cyborg #beast boy #gar logan #batman #slade wilson #wonder girl #kid flash #wally west #raven #victor stone #metamorpho #batman and the outsiders

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Green Lantern #50 (March 1994)

"EMERALD TWILIGHT," Finale! Hal Jordan goes full supervillain, and nothing will ever be the same again (for about 10 years).

Last issue ended with Hal, usually the hero of this comic, attempting to steal the power of every Green Lantern in the universe via their Central Power Battery, only to be stopped by Sinestro, usually the villain of this comic. Hal, driven mad by the destruction of his city and obsessed with getting the power to un-destroy it, tells Sinestro he'll kill him if he doesn't get out of his way, but Sinestro ain't buying it -- he still thinks he's talking to the Hal Jordan who appeared in the Super Friends cartoons.

Hal demonstrates how serious he is by nearly blowing Sinestro's pants off with all those GL rings he stole last issue. Sinestro points out that one ring vs. ten rings isn't very sporting, so Hal actually drops the extra ones so they can have a fair fight. I guess resurrecting Hal's loved ones as soon as possible isn't as important as proving to a purple jackass that he can beat him without unfair advantages.

So, Hal and Sinestro start fighting as the increasingly worried Guardians of the Universe watch on. Sinestro tries to get under Hal's skin by telling him about the time the Guardians begged him to take this sad little Earthling and turn him into "half" the Green Lantern Sinestro was, but Hal isn't in the mood for fight scene banter right now. What starts as a classic power ring battle (constructs, energy blasts) soon devolves into two angry dudes beating the crap out of each other, until Hal finally gets his arms around Sinestro's neck...

...and breaks it. Hal doesn't even let out a dramatic "NOOOOOOOO," like a proper superhero. He just mutters "damn you" and walks away, leaving Sinestro's mangled body on the ground.

Now no one else stands between Hal and the Central Battery -- or so he thinks, until Kilowog comes back for another round. Despite having no ring, Kilowog gives Hal a good beating as he tries to make him think about the consequences of draining the Power Battery (you know, like murdering every GL currently in space or in a fight somewhere). Kilowog tells Hal he may have killed Sinestro, but he isn't evil like him yet. He can still stop. Hal replies: "No. I can't." Then he confirms it by turning one of his best friends into a pile of bones.

Hal drops his ring, saying he doesn't deserve it anymore... and besides, he won't need it after absorbing the Central Battery's power. Hal walks up to the Battery and all the Guardians are there, but without any GLs around, they can't really do anything but lecture him. With tears in his eyes, Hal tells them: "What's going to happen is going to happen. It has to. You can't stop it... and neither can I." It's like Hal knows they're all merely pawns to a higher power: yes, Green Lantern editor Kevin Dooley.

It's only once Hal has entered the battery that the other Guardians turn to Ganthet and are like "okay, fine, let's try that plan you mentioned last issue." As the Battery begins to collapse, the Guardians perform a ritual where they send all their lifeforce to Ganthet (which you can tell because they're getting even older and wrinklier). Finally, the Battery explodes and Hal emerges with a new costume, a new more villain-esque hairdo, and, although we don't know it yet, a new name: PARALLAX.

Parallax walks across the Guardians' shriveled up bodies and angrily steps on his old GL ring before flying off into space. Then, Ganthet rises from a pile of corpses and puts the broken ring back together (and gives it a redesign, while at it). He says that, as the last Guardian of the Universe, he'll make sure that his brothers' ideals live on, then turns himself into a ball of energy headed for Earth.

Meanwhile, the same young dude who saw Hal flying to Oa in GL #48 comes out of a nightclub to get some air and spots another "falling star" in the sky, only this one is actually falling. In fact, it's heading directly for him. It turns out to be Ganthet, who lands right in front of this understandably confused clubgoer, tells him "You shall have to do," and hands him Hal's refurbished ring.

Without saying much else, Ganthet turns back into green energy and disappears. After confirming that the hobo who was sleeping in this alley also saw "a blue little guy in a red dress disappear" (for what it's worth), the guy decides to put on the ring -- and suddenly finds himself wearing a Green Lantern costume. "Oh man," he says, "I think my life just got a lot more complicated."

Haha, you don't know the half of it, buddy.

Plotline-Watch:

Things we know about Kyle Rayner so far: 1) he likes Nine Inch Nails, based on his shirt, 2) sometimes he dances so hard that he has trouble breathing, and 3) if a little blue man in an alley tells him to do something, he does it. Perfect superhero material. Things we don't know about Kyle Rayner yet: that his name is Kyle Rayner.

I've always liked the contrast between the way Hal was recruited to the Corps in 1959's Showcase #22 (with a speech about how fearless and honest he is) and the way Kyle was recruited in this issue (with a shrug and a "you'll do").

The Guardians did approach Sinestro about training Hal, as told in Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II #1 (1991), but there was no begging involved. In fact, they forced him to do it. I guess he showed him in the end when his trainee wound up destroying the Corps (and killing him, but still).

Kilowog (RIP) tells Hal "I know what it's like to lose yer home, the folks ya love..." and it's true: he lost his planet twice. Bolovax Vik was destroyed during Crisis on Infinite Earths, but Kilowog managed to preserve everyone's minds inside his ring. Then, as soon as he found a new planet for his people in Green Lantern Corps #218 (1987), Sinestro blew it up again, permanently killing everyone this time. By Hal's logic, Kilowog should have turned himself into a DOUBLE Parallax long ago.

Kilowog also mentions that Hal has gone into the Central Battery twice before: first to save the day at the end of Emerald Dawn, and then to try to save the day in Green Lantern #6 (1990), although it didn't work out so well the second time because a crazy Guardian had already taken that power for himself. You know, they really should have put a door on that thing or something.

I don't remember if the hobo who was sleeping in the alley when Kyle got the ring will appear again, but I'm giving him a tag anyway. Wonder if they've ever done an alternate reality story about what if he'd become the All-New Green Lantern...

Guy-Watch:

Guy Gardner: Warrior #18 marks the start of the "Emerald Fallout" storyline, which will reunite Guy with his old pal Hal. It kicks off with Guy's yellow power ring (which feeds off GL ring energy) suddenly exploding and showing him a vision of Hal killing Sinestro, Kilowog's corpse, and Parallax emerging from the Battery. Guy, however, seems more concerned with the fact that the ring isn't working now, so he takes it to Blue Beetle, who can't resist the opening for a dick joke.

Beetle ends up giving Guy a prototype of the EXTREME '90s armor he built for Booster Gold (incidentally, based on Kilowog's old designs), which is somehow even more EXTREME and more '90s. Guy has some trouble adjusting to it, but grows to like it.

Next, Guy visits his on-and-off girlfriend Ice at the Arctic Circle, where she's quite literally chilling as she figures some stuff out -- as seen in the Justice League America series, she recently lost her dad after he was murdered by her evil brother, who also died, and then she gained vaguely defined new powers for vaguely defined reasons. Also, she went from modest clothes and no cleavage to an exotic dancer suit and all of the cleavage. The '90s were hard on everyone.

Just when it looks like Ice and Guy are about to reconcile, there's a huge explosion that knocks her out -- it's that Militia asshole who tried to kill Guy last issue, who just shot himself out of a submarine's cannon to finish the job. Will Guy ever catch a break?! NEXT ISSUE: Not in this storyline, he won't.

#green lantern #ron marz #darryl banks #romeo tanghal #hal jordan #sinestro #guardians of the universe #kilowog #ganthet #kyle rayner #guy gardner #blue beetle #ice #justice league #militia #green lantern corps #quorum #hobo who was sleeping in the alley when kyle got the ring #oh yeah and also bivvix the talking crocodile green lantern dies in the guy gardner issue rip bivvix the talking crocodile green lantern

[dirtyriver]

Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #2, September 1992, framing story written by Gerard Jones, original art by M.D. Bright (pencils) and Romeo Tanghal (inks)

#Comics #Original art #Mark Bright #Romeo Tanghal #Green Lantern #Hal Jordan #John Stewart #Alan Scott

[aboutzatanna]

Interesting tidbit that has been quietly retconned over the years; Zatanna's dad was originally missing for ~20 years~.

Source: Justice League of America Vol 1 (1960) #51

This even made it one of her and father's earliest Whos Who page:

Both of these are from the mid-late 80's.

And a slightly more 'recent' one from the 90's:

However in DC's 'Blue Ribbon' #5 (1980) by Gerry Conway and Romeo Tanghal she was shown as much older when she first learned that her father went missing:

Later DC's Secret Origins #27 (1988) and her new Whos Who established that she was 18 when her father disappeared:

And that has been the case ever since.

So if initially, Zatara was missing for 21 years, who raised Zatanna? That has never been specified. Aging her up to 18 when her father disappeared was a more sensible explanation as it explains why Zatanna takes after her father so much. Her 2010 ongoing by Dini further emphasized how influential present Zatara was in Zatanna's life.

Secret Origins #27 also suggested that Dr Mist has been secretly orchestrating the lives of many characters including Zatara and Zatanna (hence the 'despite your gender I decided to raise you' line in the cropped scan above) but that's been ignored ever since and rightfully so I would say.

Only time the 20 years thing was mentioned was in James Robinson's Starman ongoing when the titular Starman, Jack Knight, met with the ghosts of various Golden Age heroes and he uses that fact to great dramatic effect to compare and contrast the relationship between Jack and his superhero father and Zatara's relationship with his daughter:

Source: Starman #37

(See more about Zatara's origins here)

As great as these two pages are, Zatara being missing for 21 years would never be brought up again. Zatara disappearing when Zatanna was 18 and only being gone for a few years instead of two whole decades is the current predominant canon.

Still, for an Elseworlds, it might be fun to consider what would have happened if Zatara did disappear when Zatanna was a child and how Zatanna might have turned out if she was raised by someone else for most of her life and how that might have affected her relationship with her Dad. What if she was raised by Madame Xanadu? Or Jason Blood? Or let's make it really bad and it was a villain like the Wizard or Felix Faust? How would her powers, costume and outlook on life be like?

#zatanna #zatanna zatara #john zatara #john giovanni zatara #starman #jack knight #james robinson #gerry conway #dc whos who #romeo tanghal #dr mist #nommo balewa #allura

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Out this week: Jim Henson’s Labyrinth Archive Edition #1 (BOOM!, $4.99): 

It’s been around 35 years since the movie Labyrinth came out and Marvel published their comic book adaptation by Sid Jacobson, John Buscema and Romeo Tanghal. Now BOOM!, who has been publishing comics and graphic novels in partnership with The Jim Henson Company for years now, resurrects it with this “archive edition” of the first issue.

See what other comics and graphic novels are arriving in stores this week.

#comics #comic books #new comic book day #ncbd #new comics day #new comics #new comics wednesday #boom! studios #sid jacobson #john buscema #romeo tanghal #jim henson #labyrinth #jim henson's labyrinth

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Archive Edition #1 by Sid Jacobson, John Buscema, Romeo Tanghal and Bob Sharen. Cover by Buscema and Tanghal. Variant cover by Miguel Mercado. Out in April.

"It's a nightmare come true for one teenage girl when goblins tear her baby brother from her grasp! Journey back to the iconic fantasy realm of the 1986 classic in this brand new edition of the original Marvel Comics adaptation. Adapted by Sid Jacobson with enchanting artwork by John Buscema, this archive-worthy edition is a can't-miss collectible for fans of the seminal film, available for the first time in over 35 years. This facsimile release features the original cover by John Buscema, as well as an all-new variant cover by Miguel Mercado!"

#jim henson's labyrinth: archive edition #jim henson's labyrinth #labyrinth 1986 #labyrinth #sarah williams #jareth the goblin king #jareth #boom studios #sid jacobson #john buscema #romeo tanghal #bob sharen #miguel mercado #variant cover #comics

[dcbinges]

Vigilante #8 (1984) by Romeo Tanghal, Marv Wolfman & Ross Andru

#adrian chase #vigilante #romeo tanghal #ross andru #marv wolfman #dc #dc comics #comics #80s comics #80s #cover

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“the Next Gen”

Paul Pelletier - Romeo Tanghal

#Green Arrow #Green Lantern #Kyle Rayner #Conner Hawke #Paul Pelletier #Romeo Tanghal #JLA

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1994 Green Lantern #51 DC Comics House Ad hyping up A New Dawn, Kyle Rayner’s debut as the new Green Lantern in Ron Marz and Darryl Banks legendary run.

#kyle rayner #green lantern #emerald dawn #dc #dc comics #1994 #dc comics house ad #comics #comic ads #ron marz #darryl banks #romeo tanghal #my scans #comfort food comics #comfort food kyle rayner

[tomoleary]

Rich Buckler and Romeo Tanghal - Justice League of America #210 Splash Page 1 Original Art (DC, 1983) Source

#rich buckler #romeo tanghal #Justice League of America #original art