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]

The two Essential Dazzlers definitely contain those first two X-Men she appeared in, the Beauty and the Beast miniseries, the Secret Wars II crossover, and the graphic novel. Yeah. I'm a Dazzler geek also. I was so happy when the Essentials came out and I could read everything in order again... I didn't get into her until partway through the series.

Ouch, losing ROM had to hurt. I have a lot of the series, courtesy of cheap back issue bins, but I'm still piecing it together. And it would take a miracle for Marvel to get the rights to reprint those. Sigh.

[seawasp]

Okay, now I know something else to put on my Amazon wish list.

Yes, losing ROM did hurt, especially since it's one of the series that I started reading at the beginning on a whim, and thus just HAPPENED to have chosen to read the most bizarrely influential series in Marvel history, at least to that point. Who would EVER have guessed that a toy tie-in book would end up literally transforming the Marvel cosmology?

"...At last it can be said that Galactus has found a world that he could not STOMACH!"

So Marvel doesn't have the rights to ROM?

[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

Marvel doesn't have the rights to the ROM toy. They can use everything else, as they invented Galador, the Dire Wraiths, et cetera, but they can't show Rom in his Spaceknight armor.

[seawasp]

Well that's just stupid. It's not as though the toy's being produced any more, and the only chance the manufacturer would HAVE of making more would be if ROM was re-released.

[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?