SQUEEE!

[seawasp]

To my Loyal Lieutenant, who apparently read my whinging and decided to send me a pick-me-up. I just got the first volume of the Walt Simonson "The Mighty THOR" comic collection.

Simonson's run on Thor DEFINED the character for me, and included what may just be the single most CMoA (CROWNING MOMENT of AWESOME) in all comicdom in the duel between Thor and Jormungandr. Or maybe in the Last Stand of the Executioner. Or maybe... Hell, there's so many CMoAs in the Simonson run of Thor!

I had the original comics. They, along with a number of my other comic acquisitions (my entire run of Dazzler, the Godzilla comics, older X-books, Spider-Man, New Teen Titans, etc.) were destroyed in two floods in two different houses.

Thanks, Shana!

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[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

Which is why, when they released a Spaceknights miniseries some years back about the next generation (post-ROM series), we never saw Original Rom pictured in his armor or called by that name. That fact that it wasn't anywhere near as awesome a series as the original was incidental. :>

Sadly, I think there was an issue of Power Fist & Iron Man that couldn't be collected into that series' Essentials because it guest-starred Rom. Which is really annoying, especially if you were buying the Essentials for the sake of having a complete run of something you never owned before.

I'd dearly love Essential Rom. And Essential Micronauts.

[seawasp]

IIRC, didn't ROM crossover with the Micronauts?

I'm still puzzled as to what earthly or even unearthly reason a company would have to NOT allow Marvel reprint, if not New-print, rights to the old series, when the only value of their current rights depends on publicity which only Marvel could provide.

Do they envision some sudden golden age in which ROM will magically become popular without anyone hearing of him again?