I Found This Somewhere in an Interesting Corner of the Internet

[Marnetmar]

Alfonzo and Xaser have officially confirmed that this will be used for D2TWID's titlepic

[Obsidian]

Who's the bloke in the dress?

[Marnetmar]

The virgin Mary.

[Obsidian]

Seems more like the Virgin Mark. It's a nice picture though. :)

[Gez]

Marnetmar said:

The virgin Mary.

John Romary.

[Quasar]

The Virgin Romero. He might object to that name though... :>

[Marnetmar]

Quasar said:

The Virgin Romero. He might object to that name though... :>

But maybe he's a sperm donor!

[Maes]

Marnetmar said:

But maybe he's a sperm donor!

Ahhh so that explains those apocryphal exit messages in the Doom source code...

John Romero's Extra Quit Messages said:

• you quit and i'll jizz in your cystholes!
  
• if you leave, i'll make the lord drink my jizz.
  

Now it all comes together, the Doom experience has come full circle. What else do we want?

[Waffenak]

If Michelangelo painted that to sixtus chapel roof instead of what there now is...

[schwerpunk]

Romero's hair is much silkier than that, but the artist's depiction is all the more 'metal' for it.

[clamgor]

This leads me to wonder what Romero is up to these days.

[Superluigieth1]

Obsidian said:

Who's the bloke in the dress?

John Romero.

[myk]

schwerpunk said:
Romero's hair is much silkier than that, but the artist's depiction is all the more 'metal' for it.

I'd say the silky hair came later during his established "gaming rock star" period between Quake and the fall of Ion Storm and beyond.