Let's kick off 2013 by going into the past about 30 years. There's a few ROM spaceknight issues that I think have at least some notoriety as being iconic in the Cosmic Marvel genre of the 80's. No doubt ROM #24 (1981) was one of them with his timely intervention for Xandar during a Skrull invasion which saw at the end of the issue Richard Rider relinquishing his Nova powers and returned to Earth.
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But also, who could forget Galactus and Terrax vs the spaceknights of Galador in Rom 26 and 27!? I dunno what was more awesome the spaceknights taking down Terrax or how Rom ultimately managed to defeat Galactus by out whiting him. But those two epic Rom issues had something of forerunner at the tail end of
Dazzler #11. A big thanks to Gary Martin Jr. and Ptor from The Sanctum for sending me the following clip art. And in case you forgot during Terrax's fight with the spaceknights in Rom#26 a Dazzler #11 footnote appeared on page 17.
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Lately I've been finding in $1 boxes a lot of issues from the 2009
War of Kings saga that saw yet another conflict between the Shiar Imperium and The Kree Star Empire. Pretty epic stuff it had great action, great art and plenty of interstellar politics which I love. It was some of the best Cosmic Marvel adventure I've read since Operation Galactic Storm and The Annihilation Wave. How cool if War of Kings were to have had Rom (Galador's King) interwoven somewhere in the story line. That's of course assuming Abnett & Lanning would have produced a better narrative for Rom fans then the crap that was The Annihilators.
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The King of Kings by Motorhead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0vCqEgarBY&bpctr=1357068142
You definitely have a point on how ROM could've easily fit into that whole War of Kings/Sh'air-Kree war, not to mention Annihilation as well.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame, but who knows how big of a part he may have contributed to the outcome. Hell, he might've even made onto the roster of the new Guardians of the Galaxy.
I think the last true appearance ROM made was out of continuity in Universe X, where he was battling the Dire Wraiths in Limbo.
it seems that legal red tape matters here on earth can have interstellar consequences.
DeleteSweet! Love it when you have people that help out isn't it nice footnote and the addition of Rom into the fray looks Amazing David very cool! You know how to mix things up Lovin it!!
ReplyDeleteyeah a blog is kinda like a team sport that way. more good stuff from that team effort on the way soon my friend.
DeleteThe Annihilators truly was garbage, and I believe Abnett & Lanning could've done a much better job on this. Rom would've been an improvement, but I'd rather have him stuck in limbo forever than stuck into a piece-of-crap story. Annihilation and War of Kings would've been good fits, definitely.
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