Good assessment of the character IMO. Also nowhere near as angsty, but then he did voluntarily choose to be borged, where Norrin really didn't have a choice about the radical manscaping and coat of silver paint if he didn't want Zenn-La eaten. Rom probably played the paladin in D&D all the time, back before he got big metal fists that made die-rolling hard. :)
ROM was the only one I really cared for story wise and collected. 66 measly issues. I loved him because he was more heart broken than anything, reliving all his loss on Earth as he tries to beat back the wraith invasion here. Unlike most other heroes, his origin and arrival are specifically to help us.
What's so Funny when this series first came out I Bought the first issue and used to collect Rom. Now I Finally got back into comics have trying get the classic older stuff since then. Some newer stuff is OK but It made me appreciate older stuff more. In Fact I just got through reading ROM #1 and #2 last night, revisiting my childhood. I got a lot of those issues back in my collection but am still missing some. It is Definitely a fun read.
Man I wish the MCU could get the rights back to ROM. He's actually a very important character back in the day. REAL shame he can't be used in the comics and movies. Tis would actually be my Holy Grail of live action movies.
I still believe Marvel and or Disney. Will buy both Rom and the Micronauts from Hasbro. The perfect man for the job. Would be direct/producer Sam Raimi. He actually read these comics and can do humor and horror. A trilogy would be great covering the Marvel series.
ROM is one of my favorite comics series of all time, while I wish more could read it, I'm glad there's issues keeping a collection from being put together as that could lead to them resurrecting Rom who had a story with a ending, so rare in comics, even though he crossed over with so many of the Marvel Universe his story is what ultimately mattered, and it was a epic journey. A tragedy, a real space opera.
I had the toy and collected the comic series...79 was a long time ago, but I still love that era for comics and toys. Mind you, I was between the ages of 4 to 13, ( comics and toys like Mego action figures, Star Wars toys and comics and same for Micronauts..ahh, so many good memories ) but I still remember it like yesterday. Cheers!
Rom and Micronauts were some of the first and favorite comics I got after G.I.Joe. Being 5 years old in 1983, I didn't even know there were toys for Rom and Micronauts until many years later when I started collecting toys. ROM sits on my shelf now.
This was the comic that converted me from buying comics once and a while to an ongoing collector! Just marvel at that awesome Frank Miller cover for #1! The amazing Michael Golden did occasional covers for some of the early issues. #17 & 18 features the X-Men crossover vs a half-human half-wraith child. The Dire Wraiths also utilized sorcery so the series had a couple Dr Strange guest appearances including one with the Living Tribunal. ROM even tussles with Galactus. Just an all around entertaining series. Such a pleasant surprise to see this review this evening. Great job! [Edit.... I was 11 in 1979, I didn't know anyone who had a ROM toy. I had plenty of friends (including me) with Micronauts.] All respect to Bill Mantlo.
but sadly we never got a and Micronauts cross over issue back in the day. that IDW Hasbroverse jive is a bunch of nonesense. thank The Gods of Galador for good fan art though romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/
Back in the day when ROM was on the stands monthly, I dismissed it as a toy tie in book. Over the years I've picked up numerous back-issues from the $0.50 cent bin and found it to be one of the most entertaining comics I've ever read. Enough so that I've collected specific storylines and added them to my collection.
"ROM" was great. It also crosses over into an issue of "Power-man And Ironfist," an issue of "Marvel Two In One," and an issue of "The Incredible Hulk."
@@sonic31century1 i read those. rom was damaged by iron fist and his neutralizer turned off his iron fist, also powerman's bodypower was neutralized. and if i remember correctly, he changed the hulk into bruce banner
I love me some Rom. I started reading it late in run and for little while Starshine ( the women on the bridge he saved) was my favorite character in comics. Her blood thirsty total war versus the dire wriaths was really my first introduction to that kinda of comic book character.
I didn't even know ROM was an action figure until 2001. I bought my first ROM comic in 79 because I thought he looked cool. Soon I found that we had personal characteristics in common. Or rather I identified with his disconnection from his own people and his own humanity. He was often misunderstood as some kind of villain but was a hero. He was an idealist rejected by the world he sought to save. Good thing he had his armor and his love.
First Rom was with the X-Men against the Hybrid. I enjoyed it and was happy to when it was brought back. It didn't have the same feeling to it but it brought thoughts on my youth
for being a Toy without a story Bill Mantlo went pretty good. SY FY a bit 50/60 style. It was a decent run like Mantlo did with Micronauts and their first run was a small masterpiece by Mike Golden! He didnt write good dialogues but mostly his stories were more solid than today. If it lasted 75 issues meant something. Anyone today would sell their soul to make a current new serie so long
#1 hit the stands Tuesday Sept 11th, 1979. It came out monthly every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Depending on any really bad winter storms back in 79-early 86.
In the early years of "Rom" and "The Micronauts" Bill Mantlo wrote a letter to "The Comics Journal" saying that his comics were good comics because they each had such high sales numbers. His fellow comic pros wrote in to the magazine attacking him for saying this. They were saying that sales didn't matter and comics based on toys can't be good. Bill Mantlo was right. I bought these comics because they were good.
I remember buying ROM #1 when it first came out. I was 10 years old and loved him. He's still one of my favorite characters developed by Marvel. It would be great to see a ROM MCU movie, but that is highly doubtful with all the ownership issues involved.
Thanks Mr. Perch for the topic. I liked it. Again, brought sweet memories back as a kid. Remembered how Forge also borrowed and made neutralizers off his mutant ability. Something also about the eagle plaza? Anyways. Be safe. Mabuhay!
later we learned that Dire Wraithes are indeed female sorceress skrulls that were cast out by skrull society, if I remember correctly. It was told in the first Annilhators miniseries
There was another Space Knight called Annihilator, any relation? Or just coincidence? That was a cool thing about the Space Knights they all had a unique look and powers. A toy line would be huge!
@@doodlesquatch277 No is not related. It was a mini series by Abnett and Lanning after their Guardians of the Galaxy fame with people with power to Annihilate planets! So there were Silver Surfer, Quasar, Ronan, Beta Ray Bill, Gladiator and a new female Space Knight from the Galador side. Remember that even if marvel does not own Rom anymor they still own Space Knigths, Galador and Dire Wraiths
not quite Federico, dire wraiths are an evolutionary off shoot of the skrulls. genetically similar but other wise a different speices romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/
Loved this series. Never felt the slightest urge to buy the toy (which I never saw in any store locally) but the comic was a great read for almost the whole run. Very few real dud issues. I particularly liked the storyline where Galactus recruited Rom as a temporary Herald (he was doing that a lot in the 70s and 80s) and Rom promptly took him to the Wraith's home world. Galactus tried to eat the system's self-aware "Dark Sun" that gave the Wraiths their powers and got beaten up by it off panel, then runs away and tells Rom his services as Herald are no longer required.
I didn't know much about ROM but I think I read something similar or derivative appeared in Hickman's Avengers (Infinity) run and Aaron's Thor (Godbomb) run.
I never went out of my way to pick up this series, and never had it added to my pull box. However, somehow I seem to have ended up with about half the issues. It was just a fun, weird series. I enjoyed the two issues where he fought Galactus.
Much like Aunt May. :) Come to think of it, they even looked pretty similar. I would so read a book where Rom and the Golden Oldie team up to beat on Dire Wraiths. :)
@@richmcgee434 yes also the dazzler was galactus' herald for an issue to retrieve terrax the tamer from a black hole also, there are no dire wraiths on earth anymore, so rom would have to battle them on other worlds
He lured Galactus into the Dark Nebula where the Dire Wraiths originate, hoping he could destroy the Wraith threat altogether, but Wraith sorcery almost killed him. For ROM and the rest of the Spaceknights punishment, he relocated Galador to another part of the galaxy.
I'm kicking myself for not saving the issues at the end with some great art by Steve Ditko inked by P. Craig Russell and collecting them into a custom bind.
Weird IP license issues from the whoever has the toy rights, I suspect. I'd say it's also a bit obscure, but after Guardians and Black Panther I'm starting to think almost any well-made comic-based movie will work.
I wasn't a huge ROM fan, but it was a fun little book. Marvel at that time really did a solid job with the licenses they had. Shogun Warriors was decent, ROM was solid, and Micronauts was very good. They all were in the larger Marvel Universe to some extent with even Shogun Warriors having the FF guest star, IIRC. I'd be interested in seeing you review the Micronauts to see if they hold up today. I don't think ROM, or any licensed toy, would do well at Marvel today for the simple fact that 99% of their writers don't understand that comics - like toys - are supposed to be fun.
I remember Rom greatest of the space Knights . I Collective not all but most. Then lost them all along with so many others moved around way too much as a kid what a shame!
I loved Rom. Some of my favorite Sal Buscema artwork in that series. I was going to try to reach out to IDW when they were doing it, but then I found out that they can't use the Dire Wraiths, Steve, Brandy or any of the rest of the Marvel version stuff over there. I realized that WITHOUT those elements, I wasn't really interested in the character. The armor was even different. I lost interest before I started.
@@richmcgee434 --- I was 12 years old, trying to figure out how to draw, and copying panels from Sal's Hulk stuff. Unfortunately, he's one of the artists that kind of got put aside in the Image era.
@@chuckgibson3973 Nah, Image isn't worth the effort. They're just a low-grade twinge at this point, not the stabbing pain they were when a was having to deal with their terminally late books at work in the 90s. So many angry subscribers...
Never bought Rom during it's original. I did enjoy stories within Rom in the character profiles in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Picked up few issues of the first 5 to 7 issues of the series, couple of annuals & one or two issues of Ditko's run nearing the end of the series. Fun mish mash of a series. Should get more. I even bought the series offered up by IDW. Okay, but didn't blow me away. Didn't have the same charm of early 80's Marvel's run.
Rom and the Dire Wraiths were swiped from the following classic SF movies. Rom was a merging of two characters. Klaautu a alien from a peaceful planet and his 8 ft tall giant robot space cop/body guard named GORT. From the 1951 SF classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. The Dire Wraiths from the 1956 SF classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The female wraiths a rip off from Alien/s Xenomorrph. I talked a few times by phone to the late brother Mike. Of writer Bill Mantlo. Mike totally agreed with me on what I believe where Bill got his ideas from. Sadly, Mike passed away about two years ago. Bill Mantlo suffered a terrible tragic hit & run. The driver was never idebtified or caught. Bill was roller blading and was run down. He was also a DA lawyer at that time too. So it sounds like it was no accident. Mike told me he tried investigating it himself. Because the local police were either too busy, had zero leads. Or sadly never cared.
I think Rom #1 was the third or fourth comic I bought when I started collecting (age 8) At first I thought it was cool but after a while I didn't like it as much. I don't know what happened to the comic but I would like to sometime reread it to see how I feel about it now. Moon Knight started about the same time and I had a great time rereading those books.
The toy I believe came out in Sept of 79 along with the first issue of ROM. Marvel got the comic rights at least back. To do both ROM and the Micronauts again. I'm hoping Director Sam Raimi will direct a trilogy of Rom movies. Using writer Bill Mantlo's original stories.
1st off I want to thank you for covering this material { X-MEN & ROM were my favorites , X-MEN then, now its ROM due to recent rereads } however, I found the review somewhat lackluster. I think I would have favored a more overall approach ( license issue's , historical significance , what was the difference between the IDW series & the marvel series , who owns the rights to the " DIRE WRAITHS " who created them, what about the word " SPACEKNIGHTS " ETC . . . , what about HAMMERHAND, JAVELIN , FIREFALL, STARSHINE, & the other spaceknights marvel created ETC . . . A REALLY GOOD ISSUE{S} TO HAVE DONE WOULD HAVE BEEN 24 - 27 WHERE GALACTUS INVADES ROM's HOME PLANET OF GALADORE { GAY - LA - DOOR ; just a guess } ) QUITE FRANKLY, MARVEL DID SOOOOOOO MUCH MORE WITH THIS " IP " THEN PARKER BROTHERS/HASBRO EVER DID I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW MARVEL DOESN'T OWN IT OUTRIGHT
good comment Charles. the videos on ROM for several year now have been very redundant. but this site isn't if you're a ROM fan who's never seen it before romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/
Kalutu combined with Gort = Rom Spaceknight. The Silver Surfer's origin a bit too. The combination of the 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still/Invasion of the Body Snatchers / with Alien. And scenes from the 50's War of the Worlds.
Parker Brothers did not later "become Hasbro," Parker Bros. was later purchased by Hasbro (in 1991). That said I read Rom (and Micronauts). Great books. Rom didn't feel like a 'superhero' book but rather a sci-fi series. Sal's art was amazing on the series. He's the perfect fit for the character. Shame that Shooter removed him to give Ditko a book to do. Ditko was not a good choice, imo.
I liked ROM a lot. His character was noble. Like Silver Surfer without all the grandiose pretension.
Good assessment of the character IMO. Also nowhere near as angsty, but then he did voluntarily choose to be borged, where Norrin really didn't have a choice about the radical manscaping and coat of silver paint if he didn't want Zenn-La eaten.
Rom probably played the paladin in D&D all the time, back before he got big metal fists that made die-rolling hard. :)
He appeared in the background of the Silver Surfer animated series (Ep 3 I think).
ROM was the only one I really cared for story wise and collected. 66 measly issues. I loved him because he was more heart broken than anything, reliving all his loss on Earth as he tries to beat back the wraith invasion here. Unlike most other heroes, his origin and arrival are specifically to help us.
What's so Funny when this series first came out I Bought the first issue and used to collect Rom. Now I Finally got back into comics have trying get the classic older stuff since then. Some newer stuff is OK but It made me appreciate older stuff more. In Fact I just got through reading ROM #1 and #2 last night, revisiting my childhood. I got a lot of those issues back in my collection but am still missing some. It is Definitely a fun read.
ROM is one of my all time favourites! It was a brilliant comic book series, I treasure every issue.
some brilliant fan art from that brilliant comic book series romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/
Bill Mantlos was one of the greats
Man I wish the MCU could get the rights back to ROM. He's actually a very important character back in the day. REAL shame he can't be used in the comics and movies. Tis would actually be my Holy Grail of live action movies.
i know it is kinda off topic but do anyone know a good website to stream newly released movies online ?
I still believe Marvel and or Disney. Will buy both Rom and the Micronauts from Hasbro. The perfect man for the job. Would be direct/producer Sam Raimi. He actually read these comics and can do humor and horror. A trilogy would be great covering the Marvel series.
@@micpar2
Disney would have to buy all of Hasbro for that
Your wish has come true!
@@wavesgroup2768 Woah really?
Loved ROM and The Micronauts! Still have both series complete, bagged and boarded. Like gold to me!!!
a lot of ROM and Micronauts cross over fan art here romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/
Love Rom and it’s lore
Man those were fun time
One of my favorite comics and character, wish Marvel would get this license back like they did Conan the Barbarian
My Older Brother had that comic when it was new, I really liked it,
Rom was my first comic! My early copies were well read but I still have the first and last issue in my collection.
Probably one of my favorite videos of yours, I wish you'd do more like these. Maybe Micronauts, JLI -- -- any of that great late 70s, 80s fun comics
Cool! I have to check this out.
Btw when you said West Virginia, Country Roads by John Denver started running through my head. Lol
Thanks for this. I had the toy and most of the comics. The Rom annuals were excellent.
ROM is one of my favorite comics series of all time, while I wish more could read it, I'm glad there's issues keeping a collection from being put together as that could lead to them resurrecting Rom who had a story with a ending, so rare in comics, even though he crossed over with so many of the Marvel Universe his story is what ultimately mattered, and it was a epic journey. A tragedy, a real space opera.
I had the toy and collected the comic series...79 was a long time ago, but I still love that era for comics and toys. Mind you, I was between the ages of 4 to 13, ( comics and toys like Mego action figures, Star Wars toys and comics and same for Micronauts..ahh, so many good memories ) but I still remember it like yesterday. Cheers!
Rom and Micronauts were some of the first and favorite comics I got after G.I.Joe. Being 5 years old in 1983, I didn't even know there were toys for Rom and Micronauts until many years later when I started collecting toys. ROM sits on my shelf now.
a lot of cool ROM and Micronuats cross over fan art here romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/
This was the comic that converted me from buying comics once and a while to an ongoing collector! Just marvel at that awesome Frank Miller cover for #1! The amazing Michael Golden did occasional covers for some of the early issues. #17 & 18 features the X-Men crossover vs a half-human half-wraith child. The Dire Wraiths also utilized sorcery so the series had a couple Dr Strange guest appearances including one with the Living Tribunal. ROM even tussles with Galactus. Just an all around entertaining series. Such a pleasant surprise to see this review this evening. Great job! [Edit.... I was 11 in 1979, I didn't know anyone who had a ROM toy. I had plenty of friends (including me) with Micronauts.] All respect to Bill Mantlo.
but sadly we never got a and Micronauts cross over issue back in the day. that IDW Hasbroverse jive is a bunch of nonesense. thank The Gods of Galador for good fan art though romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/
I love ROM. I'm waiting for a 6 inch Marvel Legends size action figure. Also bought # 1 for investment purposes.
I wish they would do an entire toy line of Space Knights including Dire Wraiths with different weapons and the Watch Wraith.
I would kill for a Rom Marvel legends figure!
Back in the day when ROM was on the stands monthly, I dismissed it as a toy tie in book. Over the years I've picked up numerous back-issues from the $0.50 cent bin and found it to be one of the most entertaining comics I've ever read. Enough so that I've collected specific storylines and added them to my collection.
"ROM" was great. It also crosses over into an issue of "Power-man And Ironfist," an issue of "Marvel Two In One," and an issue of "The Incredible Hulk."
@@sonic31century1 Marvel-Two-In-One and Hulk were also written by Rom writer, Bill Mantlo, so if wax a great fit to guest-star.
@@sonic31century1 i read those. rom was damaged by iron fist and his neutralizer turned off his iron fist, also powerman's bodypower was neutralized. and if i remember correctly, he changed the hulk into bruce banner
I love me some Rom. I started reading it late in run and for little while Starshine ( the women on the bridge he saved) was my favorite character in comics. Her blood thirsty total war versus the dire wriaths was really my first introduction to that kinda of comic book character.
here's some bad ass Starshine fan art romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/2019/08/starshine-unleashed.html
I didn't even know ROM was an action figure until 2001. I bought my first ROM comic in 79 because I thought he looked cool. Soon I found that we had personal characteristics in common. Or rather I identified with his disconnection from his own people and his own humanity. He was often misunderstood as some kind of villain but was a hero. He was an idealist rejected by the world he sought to save. Good thing he had his armor and his love.
I had the toy first. I was already reading comics when Rom #1 hit my local 7-11 store. Collected all 75 issues. Great memories.
First Rom was with the X-Men against the Hybrid. I enjoyed it and was happy to when it was brought back. It didn't have the same feeling to it but it brought thoughts on my youth
Mystique and Destiny made cameos there, IIRC.
I still got both issues.
Not a huge devotee, but I'm a bigger fan of ROM: Spaceknight than I am Rahm: Emmanuel. He ruined Chicago.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I loved this book
ROM has a cameo for a few frames in an episode of the Silver Surfer cartoon that aired on Fox Kids.
for being a Toy without a story Bill Mantlo went pretty good. SY FY a bit 50/60 style. It was a decent run like Mantlo did with Micronauts and their first run was a small masterpiece by Mike Golden! He didnt write good dialogues but mostly his stories were more solid than today. If it lasted 75 issues meant something. Anyone today would sell their soul to make a current new serie so long
#1 hit the stands Tuesday Sept 11th, 1979. It came out monthly every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Depending on any really bad winter storms back in 79-early 86.
I love rom space knight he's really awesome and his series was tons of fun. :)
ROM blog that's also tons of fun romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/
In the early years of "Rom" and "The Micronauts" Bill Mantlo wrote a letter to "The Comics Journal" saying that his comics were good comics because they each had such high sales numbers. His fellow comic pros wrote in to the magazine attacking him for saying this. They were saying that sales didn't matter and comics based on toys can't be good. Bill Mantlo was right. I bought these comics because they were good.
I remember buying ROM #1 when it first came out. I was 10 years old and loved him. He's still one of my favorite characters developed by Marvel. It would be great to see a ROM MCU movie, but that is highly doubtful with all the ownership issues involved.
Thanks Mr. Perch for the topic. I liked it. Again, brought sweet memories back as a kid. Remembered how Forge also borrowed and made neutralizers off his mutant ability. Something also about the eagle plaza? Anyways. Be safe. Mabuhay!
later we learned that Dire Wraithes are indeed female sorceress skrulls that were cast out by skrull society, if I remember correctly. It was told in the first Annilhators miniseries
There was another Space Knight called Annihilator, any relation? Or just coincidence?
That was a cool thing about the Space Knights they all had a unique look and powers. A toy line would be huge!
@@doodlesquatch277 No is not related. It was a mini series by Abnett and Lanning after their Guardians of the Galaxy fame with people with power to Annihilate planets! So there were Silver Surfer, Quasar, Ronan, Beta Ray Bill, Gladiator and a new female Space Knight from the Galador side. Remember that even if marvel does not own Rom anymor they still own Space Knigths, Galador and Dire Wraiths
not quite Federico, dire wraiths are an evolutionary off shoot of the skrulls. genetically similar but other wise a different speices romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/
Loved this series. Never felt the slightest urge to buy the toy (which I never saw in any store locally) but the comic was a great read for almost the whole run. Very few real dud issues.
I particularly liked the storyline where Galactus recruited Rom as a temporary Herald (he was doing that a lot in the 70s and 80s) and Rom promptly took him to the Wraith's home world. Galactus tried to eat the system's self-aware "Dark Sun" that gave the Wraiths their powers and got beaten up by it off panel, then runs away and tells Rom his services as Herald are no longer required.
I've never read Rom but now I'm going
You won't regret it. Little hokey in spots like anything from teh Seventies, but overall a fun read.
I just bought a full run from eBay. I am in my mid 40s and Rom is still my favorite superhero
As a kid, I compared ROM to Optimus Prime.
As a kid, I just looked at ROM as another Marvel character. Back then I had no idea he was a toy...
I didn't know much about ROM but I think I read something similar or derivative appeared in Hickman's Avengers (Infinity) run and Aaron's Thor (Godbomb) run.
I never went out of my way to pick up this series, and never had it added to my pull box. However, somehow I seem to have ended up with about half the issues. It was just a fun, weird series. I enjoyed the two issues where he fought Galactus.
YESSSSSSS!!
The toy debuted in 1979. It flopped, but the Marvel comic ran from 1979 to 1985.
ROM was one of my favorite comics.
Rom was a herald for Galactus for like one issue.
Much like Aunt May. :) Come to think of it, they even looked pretty similar. I would so read a book where Rom and the Golden Oldie team up to beat on Dire Wraiths. :)
@@richmcgee434 yes also the dazzler was galactus' herald for an issue to retrieve terrax the tamer from a black hole
also, there are no dire wraiths on earth anymore, so rom would have to battle them on other worlds
He lured Galactus into the Dark Nebula where the Dire Wraiths originate, hoping he could destroy the Wraith threat altogether, but Wraith sorcery almost killed him. For ROM and the rest of the Spaceknights punishment, he relocated Galador to another part of the galaxy.
I'm kicking myself for not saving the issues at the end with some great art by Steve Ditko inked by P. Craig Russell and collecting them into a custom bind.
I saw a custom bind containing all of the Rom issues, including the Annuals, at the New York Comic Con some years ago. It was $400.
I never liked how Steve Ditko illustrated him. He looked too goofy.
More of this please.
How in the F is there NOT a ROM Spaceknight big budget MCU film?
Weird IP license issues from the whoever has the toy rights, I suspect. I'd say it's also a bit obscure, but after Guardians and Black Panther I'm starting to think almost any well-made comic-based movie will work.
I read that James Gunn wanted to use ROM in Guardians of the Galaxy, but was unable to do so because of the companies involved not wanting to do it.
I wasn't a huge ROM fan, but it was a fun little book. Marvel at that time really did a solid job with the licenses they had. Shogun Warriors was decent, ROM was solid, and Micronauts was very good. They all were in the larger Marvel Universe to some extent with even Shogun Warriors having the FF guest star, IIRC. I'd be interested in seeing you review the Micronauts to see if they hold up today.
I don't think ROM, or any licensed toy, would do well at Marvel today for the simple fact that 99% of their writers don't understand that comics - like toys - are supposed to be fun.
I remember Rom greatest of the space Knights . I Collective not all but most. Then lost them all along with so many others moved around way too much as a kid what a shame!
I loved Rom. Some of my favorite Sal Buscema artwork in that series. I was going to try to reach out to IDW when they were doing it, but then I found out that they can't use the Dire Wraiths, Steve, Brandy or any of the rest of the Marvel version stuff over there. I realized that WITHOUT those elements, I wasn't really interested in the character. The armor was even different. I lost interest before I started.
Sal was at the top of his game in the early parts of that series. Somewhat underrated artist IMO.
@@richmcgee434 --- I was 12 years old, trying to figure out how to draw, and copying panels from Sal's Hulk stuff. Unfortunately, he's one of the artists that kind of got put aside in the Image era.
@@chuckgibson3973 Unfortunately true. One more thing to hold a grudge against Image about, like the old curmudgeon I've become. :)
@@richmcgee434 -- If we're going to start talking about grudges... that's going to become a lot to unpack...
@@chuckgibson3973 Nah, Image isn't worth the effort. They're just a low-grade twinge at this point, not the stabbing pain they were when a was having to deal with their terminally late books at work in the 90s. So many angry subscribers...
Never bought Rom during it's original. I did enjoy stories within Rom in the character profiles in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Picked up few issues of the first 5 to 7 issues of the series, couple of annuals & one or two issues of Ditko's run nearing the end of the series. Fun mish mash of a series. Should get more. I even bought the series offered up by IDW. Okay, but didn't blow me away. Didn't have the same charm of early 80's Marvel's run.
Rom and the Dire Wraiths were swiped from the following classic SF movies. Rom was a merging of two characters. Klaautu a alien from a peaceful planet and his 8 ft tall giant robot space cop/body guard named GORT. From the 1951 SF classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. The Dire Wraiths from the 1956 SF classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The female wraiths a rip off from Alien/s Xenomorrph. I talked a few times by phone to the late brother Mike. Of writer Bill Mantlo. Mike totally agreed with me on what I believe where Bill got his ideas from. Sadly, Mike passed away about two years ago. Bill Mantlo suffered a terrible tragic hit & run. The driver was never idebtified or caught. Bill was roller blading and was run down. He was also a DA lawyer at that time too. So it sounds like it was no accident. Mike told me he tried investigating it himself. Because the local police were either too busy, had zero leads. Or sadly never cared.
Get ready for the ROM Omnibus!!!!
Rom is 7ft tall 850 LBS. He fought a out of control incredible Hulk. Toe to toe and took out the New X-Men including Rogue.
I think Rom #1 was the third or fourth comic I bought when I started collecting (age 8) At first I thought it was cool but after a while I didn't like it as much. I don't know what happened to the comic but I would like to sometime reread it to see how I feel about it now. Moon Knight started about the same time and I had a great time rereading those books.
The toy I believe came out in Sept of 79 along with the first issue of ROM. Marvel got the comic rights at least back. To do both ROM and the Micronauts again. I'm hoping Director Sam Raimi will direct a trilogy of Rom movies. Using writer Bill Mantlo's original stories.
1st off I want to thank you for covering this material { X-MEN & ROM were my favorites , X-MEN then, now its ROM due to recent rereads } however, I found the review somewhat lackluster. I think I would have favored a more overall approach ( license issue's , historical significance , what was the difference between the IDW series & the marvel series , who owns the rights to the " DIRE WRAITHS " who created them, what about the word " SPACEKNIGHTS " ETC . . . , what about HAMMERHAND, JAVELIN , FIREFALL, STARSHINE, & the other spaceknights marvel created ETC . . . A REALLY GOOD ISSUE{S} TO HAVE DONE WOULD HAVE BEEN 24 - 27 WHERE GALACTUS INVADES ROM's HOME PLANET OF GALADORE { GAY - LA - DOOR ; just a guess } ) QUITE FRANKLY, MARVEL DID SOOOOOOO MUCH MORE WITH THIS " IP " THEN PARKER BROTHERS/HASBRO EVER DID I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW MARVEL DOESN'T OWN IT OUTRIGHT
good comment Charles. the videos on ROM for several year now have been very redundant. but this site isn't if you're a ROM fan who's never seen it before romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/
Kalutu combined with Gort = Rom Spaceknight. The Silver Surfer's origin a bit too. The combination of the 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still/Invasion of the Body Snatchers / with Alien. And scenes from the 50's War of the Worlds.
Dude I had had at one stage every comic
Parker Brothers did not later "become Hasbro," Parker Bros. was later purchased by Hasbro (in 1991).
That said I read Rom (and Micronauts). Great books. Rom didn't feel like a 'superhero' book but rather a sci-fi series. Sal's art was amazing on the series. He's the perfect fit for the character. Shame that Shooter removed him to give Ditko a book to do. Ditko was not a good choice, imo.
The Dire Wraiths were actually a deviant offshoots of the Skrulls, and _they_ didn't even like them.
Hell, the Wraiths didn't even like each other.
Mi days, weres starshine and the wrarths
not dead. Banished to limbo.
its ROM not Ron!
Yes... it is ROM...
Make a movie