ROM: Spaceknight movie!

[WarpFactorZ]

I just stumbled across this article and am amazed it took this long for the project to happen. ROM was one of my favourite comics as a child, and the first series I collected from start to finish. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds!

http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/...vie-set-with-ready-player-one-writer-zak-penn

 

[Jinn]

This is actually happening?!

 

[Turtletrekker]

This is actually happening?!

It would seem that they're only in the script phase, and the project hasn't actually been green-lighted.

Zak Penn wouldn't be my first choice for writer of a comic book based project as his history on that score is hit and miss at best.

Does anyone out there read the Rom relaunch comic from IDW Comics? How does it differ from the classic Marvel run? I was under the impression that the Dire Wraiths were owned by Marvel, which is why they've been able to appear in other Marvel Comics whereas Rom himself never was.

Whatever the case, I hope Bill Mantlo gets a credit and a payday out of this if it happens.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Does anyone out there read the Rom relaunch comic from IDW Comics? How does it differ from the classic Marvel run? I was under the impression that the Dire Wraiths were owned by Marvel, which is why they've been able to appear in other Marvel Comics whereas Rom himself never was.

I actually didn't know it existed until I was reading about the movie earlier today! The last ROM comic I read was "Spaceknights" (whenever that was).

 

[JD]

I just read through the descriptions of the first 5 IDW Rom issues on Comixology and 4 out of the 5 talk about the Dire Wraiths (issue #4 mentions Sorcerer Wraiths instead).

 

[Jinn]

I wish they'd collect the old Rom issues as trades so I could read them. Until that happens (ie never) I'm just going to buy #24...

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I need to go through these again someday. I liked the comics as a kid so as an adult I bought the whole backlog in nice shape for 50 cents a piece but I never actually read through them.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I still have my original issues of Rom, but would love to see them collected in an Epic Collection or an Omnibus Edition. See also: Micronauts.

 

[Jinn]

Epic Collections are IMO the best publication format Marvel ever thought of.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Epic Collections are IMO the best publication format Marvel ever thought of.

I've grown fond of the Omnibus editions because of the larger page size. I see details in the art that I missed for years. However, I love the completeness of the epic collections. A Rom epic collection covering The Wraith War could also conceivably include issues of Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men, Roger Stern's Avengers and Bill Mantlo's Incredible Hulk runs.

 

[Jinn]

I've grown fond of the Omnibus editions because of the larger page size. I see details in the art that I missed for years. However, I love the completeness of the epic collections. A Rom epic collection covering The Wraith War could also conceivably include issues of Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men, Roger Stern's Avengers and Bill Mantlo's Incredible Hulk runs.

The omnibuses are pretty great too, but there's something about the Epic Collections, that you never know which issues are collected next, that really intrigues me. The omnibuses while being very high quality are also not very hand. I got the Guardians Solo omnibus as well as the DnA Nova/Guardians omnibuses (minus Annihilation, because I don't have 500 bucks to spare...) and I pretty much only read them while lying on the floor

 

[JD]

I still have my original issues of Rom, but would love to see them collected in an Epic Collection or an Omnibus Edition. See also: Micronauts.

I'm a bit surprised IDW hasn't republished the old Marvel series. They republished most of the older series for other stuff they picked up from other publishers. They republished Trek stuff from Marvel, DC and Wildstorm, Marvel's GI Joe: A Real American Hero, Real Ghostbusters from Now, and Teenage Mutant Ninja stuff from Mirage, Image, and Archie.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Whatever the case, I hope Bill Mantlo gets a credit and a payday out of this if it happens.

...that should start with Richard Levy, Bryan L. McCoy & Scott Dankman, the guys who created ROM and sold it to Parker Brothers. A lot of people sort of forget about them.

 

[Turtletrekker]

...that should start with Richard Levy, Bryan L. McCoy & Scott Dankman, the guys who created ROM and sold it to Parker Brothers. A lot of people sort of forget about them.

No doubt. All credit where credit is due. However, Mantlo came up with everything else. The Dire Wraiths, Galador, the Spaceknights, Brandi Jones / Starshine, the entirety of the established backstory and lore, all came from Bill Mantlo.

 

[DrCorby]

A Rom epic collection covering The Wraith War could also conceivably include issues of Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men, Roger Stern's Avengers and Bill Mantlo's Incredible Hulk runs.

I'd pretty much ignored ROM despite following a lot of Marvel comics during that era (he did a few guest appearances that I read), but I got a bit of a crash course when the Dire Wraiths invaded the X-Men comics. It didn't make much of a lasting impression on me, but I do remember a Dire Wraith impersonating someone (Storm?).

I do seem to recall that the ROM crossovers happened in close proximity to the Fimbulwinter from Walt Simonson's epic Thor run crossing over into a lot of Marvel books. Seemed to me at the time that I was surprised they happened so close together *bam* *bam*, almost simultaneously. Disconcerting. And of course, that world-encompassing blizzard had a big impact on the X-Men, resulting in most of them passing through the Siege Perilous, where they were altered, memory-wiped, and scattered across the globe.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Yeah, the Casket of Ancient Winters story from Thor crossed over into Uncanny X-Men in the same issues as the Dire Wraith story. Fun fact, in one of the Thor issues of the Casket of Ancient Winters story, you see Storm fighting the fire demons with a sword. Why a sword? Because she had just arrived with the rest of the X-Men straight from Dallas right after losing her powers. One could just assume that it was a continuity error, except that Chris Claremont referenced it in an X-Men issue years later.

 

[kirk55555]

Epic Collections are IMO the best publication format Marvel ever thought of.

Eh, I really dislike them. They're pretty expensive for the size, and they killed my favorite format, the Essential Collections. Give me cheaper but with more over much more expensive, with less content, but in color.

The Essentials let me read good older comics in an affordable format. I'd never buy a Epic Collection of, say, the old school X-Men, but in a cheaper B&W format the old pre-Claremont stuff is an enjoyable (if at times really goofy and occasionally problematic) read. It just works for comics that were made when reading them without color was viable (unlike, say, Golden Age or modern books that would probably not be very readable with all the color and digitally added stuff removed, which doesn't make them inferior its just a different style nowadays). Plus, I can't afford omnibuses and even Epics would be stretching it. I'd never have been able to read a lot of stuff I had without the Essentials.

So, Marvel killing those off for the more expensive with less Epic Collections, that don't even release in order, really killed off a whole side of their reprinting for me.