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Wallace Sellars
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Did Marvel create the Dire Wraiths or were they already a part of the ROM
toy line/back story?
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Nathan Greno
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Good question. What did Marvel bring to the table?
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Nathan Greno
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Why is Galactus slapping ROM in the ass?
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Brandon Scott Berthelot
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From what I understand Marvel created everything except ROM. That's
why they can still use Spaceknights and Dire Wraiths.
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Dave Aikins
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The creator of Rom has this to say
"My pitch was that Rom was a cyborg".
I mean, really. There was one figure. That was it. No story to the figure. He made noise and had lights. That was the selling point. Not a backstory. (Although his commercial does mention the Dire Wraiths...)
Enter Marvel, with Jim Shooter and Bill Mantlo and Sal and Al Milgrom...
BTW, of course Jim Shooter created everything:
Edited by Dave Aikins on 12 March 2012 at 4:23pm
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Shaun Barry
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"Why is Galactus slapping ROM in the ass?" Just about did a spit-take on that one, Nathan! Biggest laugh of the day, and now, of course, it cannot be un-seen!
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Robert White
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ROM has always been on the outskirts of my interests as a Marvel fan. I've heard some surprisingly good things about it over the years, so I might break down and get at least the first year or so and see if it's to my tastes. I do love classic Sal Buscema, so it might work for me. I've always been sort of on the fence. In one sense ROM is a simplistic, goofy design, but on the other it's sort of brilliantly spartan.
One question though; who owns the rights to ROM? I might be out of the loop, but it doesn't seem to me that the owners, whoever they are, are doing a thing with the character. Why not sell the rights to Marvel who is really the only entity to ever do anything with the character? There is certainly a history there and a fanbase, as this thread shows.
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Vinny Valenti
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Y'know, most of the Transformers backstory came from the Marvel crew, too - particularly Bob Budiansky.
I always did like the idea of the Transformers landing on earth millions of years ago, and their ship's computer mistaking vehicles for the dominant lifeforms of Earth, giving the 'bots those forms as a means to adapt on the new planet.
The live-action movie completely ignored that though, and didn't really provide an explanation of why they transform in the first place.
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Vinny Valenti
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And Re: The ROM#74 cover, it's best to just ask the chief himself, so JB, if you're reading this thread, did you pencil the cover yourself? Given your talent for evoking another artist's style, I can't tell for sure if these are Ditko pencils or not.
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Nathan Greno
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ROM on the cover of TIME
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Lars Sandmark
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That dude with the glasses doesn't look anything like RO--
...oh.
Nevermind, I see it now.
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Andrew W. Farago
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I bought this piece drawn by forum member Jesse Hamm a few years ago for a Bill Mantlo fundraiser. It depicts some of the things that Rom has sacrificed by becoming a Spaceknight and getting permanently sealed into a suit of armor:
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