John Romero Claims He's the Doomguy

Alfonso has a new blog post up detailing the origins of the DOOM cover and main character, Doomguy: apparently, the male body model they hired to pose for that image had no clue what he was doing, so Romero "threw his shirt off" and did all of the flexing himself. I'm confused as to why the illustrator couldn't just draw it without a physical image. I threw my shirt off and told him to give me the gun and get on the floor - grab my arm as one of the demons! Defeated, he deferred. I aimed the gun in a slightly different direction and told Don, "This is what I'm talking about!" Don took several pictures. I moved the gun some, the demon grabbed my leg, other arm, etc. At the end of it we all decided the arm-grabbing pose was going to be the best. And that's the story of how the cover composition was created. I AM THE DOOMGUY.