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RockMyAmadeus

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Hybrid was legit terrifying. He also appeared in Rom Annual #3, where he tried his sick tricks on the New Mutants.

 

Rom is amaaaaazing. Such a great series. And a great (mostly) self-contained story, with a beginning, middle and end.

 

Rom at one point was the center of the Marvel universe for a few months. Dire Wraiths were the scrouge of the MU and Rom was the exterminator.

 

 

This is what I think of as a proto-event. It happened just before these sorts of things got branded and hyped as big events. If it had happened two years later, it would have gotten a "WRAITH WAR!" logo on the top of each issue and it would be a lot better known now than it is.

 

There were multi-part crossovers into both Avengers and X-Men as part of this event, and the effect of X-Men was much more long term and dramatic. The first appearances of Forge were split between X-Men and Rom, and the gun Forge used to strip Storm's powers was based on Rom's Neutralizer. So all the stuff that followed - Life Death, the romance with Forge, the years of powerless Storm - flowed from the Rom crossover.

ROM appeared all over the place.

 

Hulk #296, Avengers #244-245, FF #277, X-Men #185-188, Power Man & Iron Fist #73, Marvel Two-in-One #99...great stuff!

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Aweandlorder

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Hybrid was legit terrifying. He also appeared in Rom Annual #3, where he tried his sick tricks on the New Mutants.

 

Rom is amaaaaazing. Such a great series. And a great (mostly) self-contained story, with a beginning, middle and end.

 

Rom at one point was the center of the Marvel universe for a few months. Dire Wraiths were the scrouge of the MU and Rom was the exterminator.

 

 

This is what I think of as a proto-event. It happened just before these sorts of things got branded and hyped as big events. If it had happened two years later, it would have gotten a "WRAITH WAR!" logo on the top of each issue and it would be a lot better known now than it is.

 

There were multi-part crossovers into both Avengers and X-Men as part of this event, and the effect of X-Men was much more long term and dramatic. The first appearances of Forge were split between X-Men and Rom, and the gun Forge used to strip Storm's powers was based on Rom's Neutralizer. So all the stuff that followed - Life Death, the romance with Forge, the years of powerless Storm - flowed from the Rom crossover.

ROM appeared all over the place.

 

Hulk #296, Avengers #244-245, FF #277, X-Men #185-188, Power Man & Iron Fist #73, Marvel Two-in-One #99...great stuff!

 

Early covers by FM.. hello?

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Hekla

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Nowadays, a character doesnt need to be optioned in order to be "hot".. Just reboot him as a female version.. coming soon - She-Rom

 

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

 

Wasn't that done in the first series already?

 

I think there was a whole team of Spaceknights sent to Earth at one point. It was about this time I stopped reading ROM.

 

Reason for edit: Spaceknights, not Roms doh!

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Nowadays, a character doesnt need to be optioned in order to be "hot".. Just reboot him as a female version.. coming soon - She-Rom

 

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

 

Wasn't that done in the first series already?

 

Yeah, I think Brandy got her own armor for at least a while. I can't recall the details.

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Aweandlorder

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There were a lot of spaceknights, Rom was just the greatest of them all. Many of the other spaceknights were female, including his girlfriend Brandy for a time. She was transformed into Starshine:

 

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Theres your Rom reboot.. Might as well start stocking on this book now cause you know its coming lol

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the blob

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Not to derail, but...

 

I have a fondness for Liefeld as well.

I freely admit it.

+1

 

I liked his NM stuff.

 

In the end, though, Rob was like a top prospect on your favorite sports team, who starts off hot. You think, wow, this guy is really good, he's gonna keep developing into the next big thing. Then, he doesn't, and you realize that early stuff was as good as it got.

 

Think Kevin Maas, circa 1990.

 

Joba Chamberlain

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Crimebuster

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does marvel still have rights to Rom?

 

No. But like Micronauts, they do own the rights to a lot of the characters they created for the title. I think they have the rights to the Spaceknights and the spaceknight concept. In the late 90's, for example, they put out a mini-series trying to revive the concept, except without Rom involved. It never really caught on.

 

Spaceknights2-5.jpg

 

 

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Wonder Woman 38 1 in 100 variant is on fire. Nobody seemed to order this thing. Copies are fetching 175-250 a pop. If you are near one of the bigger stores that might have ordered this...go and grab it if it's still there. Beautiful cover and extremely low print run....

 

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wonder woman is hot again!

 

slowly but surely working our way through the 70's tv series. man oh man was linda carter hot.

+1

 

it's the one show i can watch with my wife where i can make lude remarks about the female star and my wife doesn't seem to mind and makes some of her own remarks ("how on earth do those not pop out?"). she's made very clear she has no interest in gals, but i suspect linda carter circa 1977 or so she would make an exception for. ron samuels was a very lucky man.

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