Even though there's another month until it comes out, a preview for ROM #1 is out. Get ready for the greatest Spaceknight of all to return, /co/!
>>83569886
Look at all dem covers. (I really wish I could find higher-res versions of these pages)
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>>83569926
>Earth Defense Command
Straight from the Transformers comics! They're already setting up that Revolution crossover.
I'm surprised they could even snap up the rights.
>>83569959
Sauce: http://nerdist.com/preview-rom-spaceknight-and-idws-hasbro-universe-crossover-exclusive/
>a Darwyn Cooke In Memoriam page
>>83569982
I think this reads much better than the FCBD issue.
>>83569977
Why? Hasbro owns ROM, and has always been tight with IDW.
>>83570011
>>83570031
>>83570047
And finally, a nice little tribute to Darwyn Cooke.
All ROM #1 variants
Exclusive for Bedrock City Comics by Nick Pitarra and Mike Garland
Exclusive Rob Liefeld cover (colors by Romulo Fajardo, Jr.) for Rob Liefeld Creations.
Exclusive for Bell Book And Comics by Stuart Sayger.
Tom Whalen
Zach Howard (colors by Nelson Daniel)
>>83570373
This one's sexy as fuck
Toy photo by Jack Rivers, from the collection of Chris Ryall
Blank
Retailer incentive cover by Michael Golden
Retailer incentive cover by Sal Buscema and Mike Cavallaro.
ROM 000 (FCBD 2016) (digital) (Minutemen-Thoth)
http://www58.zippyshare.com/v/iMl8gBPi/file.html
Retailer Incentive cover by P Craig Russell and Lauren Kindzierski
Exclusive for Comic Cons by David Messina
Exclusive for Painted Visions Comics by Lance Sawyers and John Paul Bove.
>>83570444
It's not a storytime, its a preview
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>>83570011
Getting weird vibes from his design. Sometimes he has very angular, individual-bits look like actualized machinery, sometimes he has a very liquid metal look. Heck, sometimes his design has both elements at the same time that irks me to no end.
Its like... "we want to have his look have all the random, pointless lines like superheroes have, but at the same time we want him to have that nanotech flowy uber-high-tech look"
Pick a design concept and stick with it.
Exclusive for Ultimate Comics/North Carolina Comic Con by Tommy Lee Edwards
Exclusive for Starbase 1552 Comics by Dave Dorman
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>>83570526
I always liked this take on Rom because its actually alien-ish in nature while remaining true to his original. Rom isn't just a human in armor, he ain't Space Tony, he is an alien using alien tech, it should look a little odd and not quite humanoid.
Exclusive for VA Comic Con by Kevin Roberts
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>>83570604
Diamond Previews Exclusive for San Diego Comic Con by Nick Pitarra.
COVER A – Limited to 3,000 copies
>>83570654
COVER B — Limited to 3,000 copies
>>83570691
10-Copy incentive – Limited to 600 copies
FIN
>>83570421
I don't get it. Michael Golden is capable of so much more than this. This looks like one of those old Marvel Fleer Flair cards; trying to be a rendered image, but really looking boring and flat.
>>83570445
>Lovern
>>83570711
>>Lovern
Typo by the sauce for the covers I posted
i don't know if i like the new design
it's so Liberty Prime
that said, I love the fucking Space Knights
>>83570768
Why did Hickman decide to kill them off?
Does anyone have a source for the FCBD issue?
>>83570799
1) Time runs out
2) Secrer wars
>>83570812
http://desustorage.org/co/thread/82595956/
>>83570844
But in ANAD planet Galador is back.
>>83570891
>But in ANAD planet Galador is back.
Source?
>>83569886
Ok, I'm confused, who the fuck owns the Dire Wraiths and the Spaceknights? I've always been under the impression that Marvel created them and that's why they can still use them from time to time, unlike Rom who was licenced and as a result can't even be mentioned anymore.
>>83570977
ANAD Uncanny Avengers
>>83570047
Let me guess her entire family has been killed and replaced by Draths
Shit that's dark
I always feel he should be shinier.
>>83571092
Marvel didn't create the Dire Wraiths, just their own version. They were first mentioned in promo material for the toy, before the Marvel comic, as being shapeshifting magicians.
Why is Rom so popular?
What's the appeal?
>>83571986
He had one of the greatest comic runs of the 80s.
>>83571986
It's not as though he's all that popular. He's just a cult favorite who had one hell of a great book once upon a time.
>>83571333
I don't get it. Bill Mantlo spent a long time creating a pretty vast mythology and backstory for Rom, based on very, very, very barebones concepts. IDW basically can't use the Space-Knights, Galador, Rom's rogue's gallery, or his supporting cast. I feel like the only thing this comic will have going for it is "Rom's back!" and will be lacking 95% of what made the original great. It'd be like making a movie with Luke Skywalker in it and no other relation to Star Wars, and still calling it Star Wars.
>>83572266
Yeah, I don't really have any hopes for this book. It's like, what's the point?
>>83572266
That's not true, though, as they do have ROM's biggest rogues in addition to ROM himself.
It's all still heavily influenced by what the Mantlo run did, and I know some hardcore ROM fans might tear me apart for saying this, but all of those other characters can be replaced. Also, if Marvel's various failed attempts at doing ROM without ROM are any indication, apparently people do only care about this stuff if it's got him.
>>83572367
To raise awareness of the brand for the movie, probably.
>>83572484
>That's not true, though, as they do have ROM's biggest rogues in addition to ROM himself.
The do have the Dire Wraith's yes, but Mantlo did a lot to flesh out the Wraith's, eg the female/male dichotomy. They were pretty unique and terrifying. Now, the new comic can riff on that concept, probably pretty much take it wholesale without worries of copyright, but it still won't be the same. As for other Rogues, like Mentus, they're off the table.
Sure they can replace the supporting characters, but that's really just an exercise in futility. When they do that, instead of using the existing setting and cast, then they might as create a whole new character.
Nor would I say that that Marvel has failed to do Rom without Rom. They have not even tried in the first place. There was the Space Knights mini-series in the early 2000s and the new, unrelated Venom: Space Knight series, which frankly exist only to maintain a trademark. Other than that, those characters and concepts show up very rarely and more of an easter egg than an earnest use of them.
>>83572916
They also had a female space knight in that Annihilators mini.
>>83572916
>When they do that, instead of using the existing setting and cast, then they might as create a whole new character.
Going to have to disagree there. It still has so much influence from the previous ROM comic, and I can't agree that changing the setting and cast means it might as well be a whole new character when many series have done the same thing as soon as they've changed writers, without any legal issues.
>Nor would I say that that Marvel has failed to do Rom without Rom. They have not even tried in the first place. There was the Space Knights mini-series in the early 2000s
Oh, that was 100% an attempt to do ROM without ROM. Just like that Enigma Force mini from a few years ago was an attempt to do Micronauts without actually calling them Micronauts, it was them trying to launch an ongoing out of it. Neither worked.
With all this talk about how OP Roms original run no ones storytimed it yet
>>83574771
Surprised we haven't gotten an omnibus edition or some shit
>>83570011
>Why? Hasbro owns ROM, and has always been tight with IDW.
I'm presuming because 99% of the ROM mythos is owned by Marvel Comics, including everything about the Dire Wraiths other than "shapeshifting alien wizards".
>>83574796
Who would release it? Marvel doesn't own the title character, and Hasbro doesn't own anything else in it. The chances of a collected edition are minuscule even with Marvel and IDW on good terms.
Back when Transformers Prime was still a thing Hasbro had plans to use it to launch TV shows for every single property it owns. That didn't happen, so now IDW is doing it with comics. Woohoo.
>>83571108
Also, they are the SPACEKNIGHTS of the Golden Galador: they aren't easy to kill.
>>83575208
Hasbro has plans for movies and animated series of all of them, too.
>>83575260
Is ROM the Last Knight?????
>>83575208
Why did the Hub fail so badly it has some damn good shows?
>>83570799
Are they alive again now?
I cant keep track of who really died from all that.
>>83570047
>Green eyes black woman Romantic interest.
Aaand dropped before purchase.
>>83575483
No one died, literally no one fucking died
>>83575483
>Everyone dies
9 months later
>Everyone lives
>>83575568
How do you know the romantic interest isn't the Mexican chick from the FCBD issue?
>>83575791
Because this woman is about to have the most tragic origin story.
