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Post by The Doctor on Nov 27, 2016 15:30:02 GMT
There really is just nothing of that kind in there. It's just an action/adventure comic with evil aliens hiding. That's it.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 27, 2016 15:41:05 GMT
There really is just nothing of that kind in there. It's just an action/adventure comic with evil aliens hiding. That's it. I do wish I could read it your way! Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 3, 2016 11:28:31 GMT
On issue #28 of Rom now. Very conscious of the similarities with and presumed influences on Budiansky's Transformers. I think the two series have different strengths and weaknesses.
Rom struck a really good balance between Rom universe stories and wider Marvel universe stories. I wish Transformers had been able to have X-Men instead of Neo-Knights, and Galactus instead of Unicron. Rom also benefits from not appearing to be so driven by constant turnover of toy lines - though I am frustrated when other Spaceknights more entertaining and interesting than Rom himself repeatedly got introduced and then bumped off leaving the relatively dull Rom in place. It's a bit like a Transformers comic too much about Optimus Prime. I enjoyed the 'Saga of the Spaceknights' stories.
The plot whereby Rom is misunderstood and gets attacked by those who should be his allies, though not a bad one, was repeated rather too often for my patience. I'd say TFs had more plot variety and more humour, taking itself quite a bit less seriously.
I liked the second story in Rom #25 which was not written by Bill Mantlo, in which Rom encountered another Dire Wraith married to a human woman, who forsook his evil ways. It was more satisfying than the earlier Mantlo issue that began that way, because the Wraith survived this time, and Rom had to decide what to do with him. (And to my relief decided correctly, thereby somewhat relieving my distaste for the comic's seeming to be about good and evil races rather than good and evil factions or individuals.)
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 4, 2016 15:36:55 GMT
ROM all done! Thank you, kind Phil!
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 4, 2016 17:11:22 GMT
How many issues were in that lot?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 4, 2016 17:12:46 GMT
How many issues were in that lot? Thirty. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 9, 2017 7:49:19 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 13, 2017 18:28:11 GMT
Right I need to give Martin some more Rom to read. 30-65 this time, which makes a natural break in the story. As part of that he needs some annuals and here's where I think they fit in: Rom Annual 1 between 36 & 37
Rom Annual 2 between 46 & 47
Rom Annual 3 between 59 & 60
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2017 21:40:59 GMT
I gave up on IDW ROM. I was enjoying it but the high cost of single issues of US comics is just silly now especially as the strip amount has also decreased to 20 pages from 22. Very poor value for money. About a pound more than an issue of 2000AD but with a lot less reading in it. I may come back to ROM in trade format.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 8, 2017 20:24:41 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 8, 2017 21:25:58 GMT
The general IDW Revolution trade is now out. As it features ROM in it is this the first ever trade paperback in print to feature him?
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 7, 2017 7:37:26 GMT
My reading of Rom has rapidly accelerated - 55 down, 10 to go! It's a slow-burning saga and I was being somewhat ground down by the repetitive formula in places, but it has really picked up now that Earth's governments have learned the truth and Rom fights side by side with SHIELD. This is what I'd have loved to see happen in Transformers after the Autobots came to an understanding with G.I. Joe, Triple-I and the wrestling-viewing public, but Budiansky was on the wane and Furman had other ideas. Plus... I now learn it had already been done a few years earlier in the pages of Rom!
Anyone else think the Torpedo ranks high in the table of most ineffective superheroes ever?
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2017 7:49:39 GMT
There's a fair few issues in the next batch too!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2017 8:08:08 GMT
Once ROM hits the TOTAL WAR era, the pace is relentless!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 7, 2017 18:07:51 GMT
Oh yes the Torpedo is quite, quite pants.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 7, 2017 18:09:04 GMT
Oh yes the Torpedo is quite, quite pants. Didn't he get brain murdered or something? I remember getting quite upset at issue 50 or thereabouts |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 7, 2017 18:39:01 GMT
In the G.I. Joe comic, the writer Larry Hama went about a hundred issues without killing any characters who had toys, and then suddenly killed off loads of them over a relatively short period, as if suddenly they had ceased to be bulletproof. A bit like the TF animated movie, actually.
Rom circa issue #50 felt a bit like that, except it felt less like a sudden change in the laws of physics than it did when it happened in G.I. Joe and TF:TM, in that the series had been darker throughout, and it actually served a plot point in terms of the development of the Spaceknight characters. Those long-standing characters who died weren't simply forgotten two pages later.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 11, 2017 19:03:52 GMT
Finished!
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 11, 2017 19:25:09 GMT
Pizza time then
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 11, 2017 19:52:16 GMT
Argh, next free Saturday not till 8 April.  Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 8, 2017 16:06:11 GMT
How many issues were in that lot? Thirty. Martin Anyone know what I did with them after? I can't find the first 30 issues of Rom now, they're not where they should be in the Mantlotainment long box.... |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 8, 2017 16:17:45 GMT
Anyone know what I did with them after? I can't find the first 30 issues of Rom now, they're not where they should be in the Mantlotainment long box.... I think they came back to you with Hulk: Pardoned and Regression, at our last pizza fest. I handed them over to be taken home in the car by Liz when she dropped you and Jonathan off. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 8, 2017 17:11:49 GMT
FOUND! In the library, still in the bag they were returned in.
I must have taken them in there to get the trades out then got no further with it. I saw the bag Friday and wondered what was in it.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 8, 2017 17:14:33 GMT
Good! I would not have been able to enjoy my new Phil-gotten gains if you hadn't found them.
Excalibur begins tonight.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 9, 2017 23:20:17 GMT
Very interested in your thoughts on Excalibur. Probably one of my favourite superhero comic series.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 31, 2017 8:31:25 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 4, 2017 21:56:59 GMT
Has anyone purchased it to see if it is unedited?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2017 22:55:30 GMT
I have and it looks fine to me.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 5, 2017 17:59:05 GMT
I am amazed. Dare I hope more classic ROM is coming? I wonder if Marvel or IDW have the rights to that material?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 5, 2017 18:19:42 GMT
There are rumours of some deal having been done possibly in relation to the Dire Wraiths lawsuit.
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