I just came up with the idea of trying to contact Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning on FB yesterday and woe and behold look who I hear back from first thing early in the morning about taking my idea to Marvel's legal department. I replied to Dan by letting him know about what I've seen and heard about the buzz surrounding ROM on this blog as well as stuff like the Comics Alliance ROM http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/09/rom-spaceknight-comics/ posting just before the 1st Annihilators series and more recently what went on at Jim Shooter's blog http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/06/coming-of-rom-knights-tale.html So let's just hope Marvel's legal department seriously takes this under consideration. So while we wait here's some for your viewing pleasure in the mean time . . . .
Left click on FB screen image capture to magnify This is a commission piece that had been worked on for some untold melania now by Scott Rosema for Tony who is one of the billions of followers of this blog. But now that it's done we can all marvel at it. There's so much cool stuff going on I don't even now where to start. The colors are the first thing that really grabs me about this. The flames on Firefall, Starshine's light eyes or the reflections on the Deathstar like flooring are just a few of the features that makes this such an awesome illustration to ogle at. Be especially mindful of how the artist maintained the integrity of the Galadorian Hall of Science setting and the attention to detail. Tony, the proud owner of this piece has a few words he wants to share with the viewe
rs,
"This is another awesome commission piece done by Scott Rosema for my buddy Tony the Fyrfall. Set in the Hall of Science, we can see the Spaceknights defending their human remains against some unseen threat. Notice the attention to details like the reflections, colors, wall art, and names on the crypts."
rs, "This is another awesome commission piece done by Scott Rosema for my buddy Tony the Fyrfall. Set in the Hall of Science, we can see the Spaceknights defending their human remains against some unseen threat. Notice the attention to details like the reflections, colors, wall art, and names on the crypts."
That'd be great. And of course, DnA are the perfect people to make it happen.
ReplyDeleteOh cool! That would be so sweet! I hope they really do it.
ReplyDeleteAwesome. I know its a short response, but ANY acknowledgement is a good thing the way things are now. I know that Liberator in the mini was made to resemble an updated ROM and Ikon certainly has nods to ol' toasterhead's armor, but we all want the one true ORIGINAL ROM back. After the Annihilation and Conquest uses of Spaceknights followed by the Annihilators having Ikon, its time for everyone's favorite Galadorian to return.
ReplyDeletethanks for the comments so far folks! but i think the more buzz we can create to Marvel's legal department the better so if you want to see the Greatest of the Spaceknights make a real come back then make your self heard right here and right now. in my reply to Abnett (not seen in the screen shot)i left my blog's URL so please get up off the bench and get into the game and leave a comment for Marvel.
ReplyDeleteDamn, nice work Dave! I'd have to think that your idea would work too. And I've got to say that it's pretty awesome that the D of DnA got back to you about that instead of just ignoring you or something. That was really cool of him. Here's hoping Marvel's legal dept actually does explore this idea, because you'd have to think there are tons of ways they could work something out.
ReplyDeleteNice one, and good luck David. I'd read Rohm: Spaceknight or whatever ... how about a Marvel Max mini, Rohm, Sodomy and the Lash?
ReplyDeleteWell, I'd buy it!
thank you Martin! i think what matters to Marvel the most are the last 4 words in your comment :)
ReplyDeletei remember a long time ago i was looking at an issue of X-Factor in which a character was wearing a t-shirt that had a skull with roses around it and the word "Grateful". it was an obvious Grateful Dead reference but since they didn't have the word "Dead" i guess it wasn't a problem. i've Marvel do that countless times over the years with everything from soft drinks and movie posters. they always just make a slight change or cover part of the brand. i totally see no reason how Hasbro/Parker Brothers could go after Marvel if they implemented the suggested strategy. remember how in Robocop during one of the commercial scenes how that family was playing this war game called "Nuke Em" by Butler Brothers?
ReplyDeleteoh man that's right! that was one of the countless things that made the first Robocop so awesome. and that was before i found out about the glimpses of ROM issues aside from the liquor store hold up scene.
ReplyDeletethey did it in the latest TRON movie too. how could Marvel not bring him back at this point with all this Annihilators stuff and even just last week with that bit with "Reed Richards" blasting those wraiths with that neutralizer look alike weapon!? maybe somebody outta try to contact Jonathan Hickman too?
Count me in for any ROM, ROMM or RAHM appearance on any Marvel book. I'd definitely give it a try!
ReplyDeleteMe too! .. To soon to ask for the Tinynauts too?
ReplyDeleteMixed feelings about it.
ReplyDeleteHope to see "Rahm" handled as well as Peter David's HULK issue or the EARTH X "greatest of the spaceknights" cameos.
Modern Marvel doesn't fill me with confidence.
Still... good work, David!
i have the feeling Lee from RSR feels much the same as you do ~P~. however, i'd still like to see what modern Marvel can do when it comes to ROM with out this licensing handicap that dogged the first Annihilators mini-series. i can only hope Dan Abnett wasn't just humoring me (which i doubt) and that if this initiative makes it to the legal department at Marvel they take a serious look at it and don't just blow off as being more trouble then it's worth.
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ReplyDeleteGlad that you like my ROMnibus so much that it's featured at the top of the page!
i wasn't sure at first who you were or what you were talking about but then it just clicked. your talking about the hardbound collection at the top of the right hand column. yeah of course that's awesome. i remember seeing your screen name on a posting in Marvel Statues (i think that's what site it was) about this "ROMnibus".
ReplyDeletelisten Dana, i'm sure a lot of people here are very curious to know how it was done, costs involved and whatever other information you'd care to divulge.
Nice Dave - I'm glad they flicked you back a response! If Marvel just left Marvel Cosmic to DnA I wouldn't complain!
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ReplyDeleteFirst, thanks for this blog, as well as your unbridled enthusiasm for all things Galadorian. It's great to see fellow ROM fans with such passion.
I'm a fan from back in the fall of 1979 when I saw the eye-catching issue #1 of ROM: SPACEKNIGHT in a spinner rack at Leominster News in Leominster, MA. As a kid big into Star Wars, superheroes, and knights, this was irresistible, for it was all those things rolled up into one.
Anyway, to cut to the chase, a few years ago I got tired of waiting for the rights to ROM to get out of "Limbo," and I picked up the whole run of ROM from a great comic book store in Worcester, MA, called That's Entertainment. I got as close to near mint as possible for the whole run. Then, I contacted a wonderful fellow by the name of David Banks, who in heavily involved in custom comic book binding. His web site is called Single Bound Studios (great pun for a name, eh?), and it's at www.singleboundstudios.com.
There are many different options as far as binding, and the costs vary greatly. I honestly don't recall what it cost me, believe it or not. I recall the dust jackets were about $25.00 each. The books themselves were somewhere around 50 to 70 dollars each, I think... Sorry I can't be more specific.
Anyone interested in something like this should check out David Banks' site. It's great just to look at the gallery and see all of the wonderful work he's been involved in as far as custom comic book binding projects.
Talk to ya later,
Dana
ya hear that Marvel's legal dept.? yet another long time ROM fan who's fed up our beloved Galadorian hero still stuck in Limbo.
ReplyDeletethanks for getting back to me Dana that was an ample amount of info. it sounds like you got into ROM even before i did. well as you can see i'm doing what i can here to bring him back. dealing with the toy co. is a lost cause so i went straight to the current creative team responsible for revising the ROM mythology and all things current cosmic Marvel these days. if this doesn't work i don't know what ever will. aside from Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning how much further up the ladder can a single fan boy possibly go with an idea huh!? hey by the way Dana i'd love to have such a big ROM fan like you be part of my list of Spaceknights (followers).
Very cool idea. I'd love to get the Original Spaceknights back and have some fun! But then, I am more than a little biased for them.
ReplyDeleteI personally would rather see ROM return as Artour or some other name if he can not be called "ROM" anymore. I just think something would be missing if he were called "Rhomm", "Ramma" or some such. I even have some plausible reasons for the name change. After years of being:
ReplyDeletea)held captive by the Nazgoth who tortured him he does not want to be associated with his past but look to a new future in rebuilding Galador with his wife and sons after the Annihilators episode.
b)having been trapped in Limbo to escape the explosion of the Excalibur, he found himself, with Karas in opposition to Immortus and his army of the ages eventually realizing the plight of the Wraiths and their tortured existence. He seeks to help lead the now symbiotic existence of Wraithworld and Galador under a new name, one that will not evoke fear from the now freed Wraiths.
c)Through force of will, Rom breaches the walls of death to reanimate his long dormant armor (just as the Prime Director created Mentus) and reshape and re-equip it for the coming of the greatest threat to Galador since Galactus. Unlike the current generation of spaceknights, he is unable to separate from the armor since he has no corporeal form. Being only his will in the armor, he takes a new name to lead the combined might of the Spaceknights and Wraithkind against the treat.
I figure if lowly little me can come up with plausible story lines, surely people who actually get PAID to come up with stuff can find a way around bringing back our favorite Galadorian.
well we know other spaceknights had code names like Firefall for Karas and if that was the case with ROM it would have been an easy explanation. but of course we know that ROM went by his birth name as a spaceknight too. but the explanation about him adopting a new name(Artour)for his post cyborg warrior life of over 200 years certainly is plausible. as for Rick Jone's wedding which was the last actual appearance of ROM i could see how he wouldn't bother to get into the whole name change thing while as a guest at the wedding. i mean basically he and Brandy were just there to say hello and offer their congratulations.
ReplyDeleteYou know, one of the other issues that has never been brought up are the Gen1 & Gen2 Spaceknights. Now to make the story tidy, supposedly all the renegades joined hands and sang Kumbaya-Sayonora into oblivion. However, were there others that did NOT go wiggy in the wacky-woo and left for noble purposes? And at the end there was a cohort of Gen1's that left to do good in the universe and watch over Rom and Brandy (cyber voyeurs LOL) while they repopulated and rebuilt Galador. Those surviving Gen1's had nothing to return to since their physical remains were roasted by Heatwave. How many of them were left of the original thousand? Couldn't some of them still be in action around the U to this day? I also have questions about Ikon. Is she a Gen3 like the teen-angst yuppies of the Spaceknights Limited or is she actually a FOURTH Generation? The Gen3 could call their armor from subspace but the inferences so far is that Ikon merely wears her armor similar to the previous versions of the Ironman armor. Certainly the armored Galadorians shown in The Annihilators were VERY lacking in power and ability yet Ikon says she is an Alpha Class power. She certainly hasn't SHOWN that level of ability in her first half dozen appearances.
ReplyDelete"Kumbaya-Sayonora" that's a riot! i for one am still not clear on what sort of cyborg Ikon is. it seems to me that based on her still having a human head and being able to detach her armor as described when she was hitting on Quasar at the end of Annihilators #4 that maybe her generation of Spaceknights really have some manner of integrated exoskeletons then they are true cyborgs. i dunno just a thought i had but it would be nice if Abnett & Lanning would shed some light on that.
ReplyDeletei just sent Dan Abnett another message about all the activity on this blog over the last few days but i'm not gonna bug him any more at this point. either he and Marvel will make a move or they won't i can't really do much more from here on.
has anybody out there read ANNIHILATORS: EARTHFALL #1 yet?
Yes, I picked up A:E1 on Wednesday. The action seemed rushed and the book was way too short.
ReplyDeleteand don't forget you paid $4 for what you just described.
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