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Gaz-L posted:Yes. His own little corner of the Marvel U. That's kinda the problem. ALL of the backstory stuff that isn't actually ROM himself, is all Marvel, because Parker Bros didn't have it invented, Bill Mantlo did, for Marvel. Without Marvel there is no Galador, no Firefall, no Starshine, no Terminator (before Arnold was even a thing), no Clairton West Virginia, no Brandy Clark, no Steve Jackson (not that one), no Brock Jones, no Dire Wraiths, and no Hybrid. It's ROM without any of the things that made that book what it was, other than the titular character. Even then, it's just the armor. I don't know if the license even includes the guy that was inside it.
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A.o.D. posted:Without Marvel there is no Galador, no Firefall, no Starshine, no Terminator (before Arnold was even a thing), no Clairton West Virginia, no Brandy Clark, no Steve Jackson (not that one), no Brock Jones, no Dire Wraiths, and no Hybrid. It's ROM without any of the things that made that book what it was, other than the titular character. Even then, it's just the armor. I don't know if the license even includes the guy that was inside it. It doesn't. He showed up to Rick Jones' wedding.
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Gaz-L posted:It doesn't. He showed up to Rick Jones' wedding. And in one of the Earth X sequels.
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Didn't all the space knights get killed by the builders back in Infinity?
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Howards Bellend posted:Didn't all the space knights get killed by the builders back in Infinity? Their planet got blown up, but they survived to fight another day I believe.
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Howards Bellend posted:Didn't all the space knights get killed by the builders back in Infinity? Pretty sure they've been killed off multiple times.
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Jul 14, 2015 01:58
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Including in the ROM book itself, I believe.
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Yeah, that's right. The end of ROM has literally everyone on Galador dead except for now human ROM and Brandy Clark.
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what's the chance of IDW reprinting the original ROM series? Slim? It's slim, right? I've never read it and I'm super interested in reading it because I hear nothing but universal praise for it. I know they've been reprinting Marvel-branded Transformers comics, but I imagine those don't feature Marvel properties.
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Ghost Boner posted:what's the chance of IDW reprinting the original ROM series? Slim? It's slim, right? I've never read it and I'm super interested in reading it because I hear nothing but universal praise for it. The Transformers comics DID, but IDW can't reprint those issues, so instead you get summaries, I believe. ROM's harder because it's so intrinsically tied to the MU. The various alien races, Galactus, the Avengers, the X-Men, Rick Jones are all pretty major players. Any reprint project would need Marvel's direct involvement, if not being published by them explicitly.
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Ghost Boner posted:what's the chance of IDW reprinting the original ROM series? Slim? It's slim, right? I've never read it and I'm super interested in reading it because I hear nothing but universal praise for it.
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Ghost Boner posted:what's the chance of IDW reprinting the original ROM series? Slim? It's slim, right? I've never read it and I'm super interested in reading it because I hear nothing but universal praise for it.
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I'm guessing IDW/Ryall are hoping they can just change a couple of colour schemes and swap some vowels around and Marvel/Disney won't care enough to sue.
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Reminder that Stokoe's Godzilla In Hell comes out tomorrow, y'all! It'll probably be blocked from NZ Comixology like Half Century War was  e:\/ I think it's revolving teams. He's definitely doing the first issue. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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Oh is that Stokoe again? *Add to buy list*
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muscles like this? posted:Yeah, that's right. The end of ROM has literally everyone on Galador dead except for now human ROM and Brandy Clark. That's not quite right. A small number of the 1st gen spaceknights take off to guard Galador from space.
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Gavok posted:Here's my article on the history of Terminator comics. I was not expecting this article to have a happy ending. 
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Here are the creative teams for Rom and Micronauts from IDW Rom - writers Chris Ryall (shocked!) and Christos Gage, artists David Messina and Paolo Villanelli Micronauts - writer Cullen Bunn, artist David Baldeon I wonder what this means for Onyx and String Divers which are IDW's not so sublte Rom and Micronauts ripoffs that Ryall is writing now. I've not checked out either but I've heard they're actually pretty good.
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Wasn't there another Micronauts revival years ago? I remember reading some comic about them and thinking about how it made no loving sense.
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I read every single Nightmare on Elm Street comic, from Marvel to Innovation to Avatar Press to Windstorm. Check out my write-up, BITCH!
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Is this where we finally see you crack?
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Endless Mike posted:Is this where we finally see you crack? I'm okay. It's the eventual Army of Darkness comics article that has me afraid.
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Gavok posted:I read every single Nightmare on Elm Street comic, from Marvel to Innovation to Avatar Press to Windstorm. Check out my write-up, BITCH! Aw yeah, your write-ups are pretty great. Definitely something to look forward to.
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I've read that there's one where Freddy dresses up as a pimp and kills a guy by tricking him into wearing bling that strangles him; which one is that from?
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Gavok posted:I read every single Nightmare on Elm Street comic, from Marvel to Innovation to Avatar Press to Windstorm. Check out my write-up, BITCH! In a similar vein, I just read this write up about the Halloween comics and how they do more interesting things with the concept than the movie sequels.
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I read that too, and I've read a couple of them. They're genuinely unsettling, although the Halloween franchise in general never quite descended into self-parody to the extent of the other major franchises, Busta Rhymes notwithstanding.
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Wanderer posted:I read that too, and I've read a couple of them. They're genuinely unsettling, although the Halloween franchise in general never quite descended into self-parody to the extent of the other major franchises, Busta Rhymes notwithstanding. Going back and watching Halloween Resurrection after knowing the trajectory of Katee Sackhoff's career makes it unintentionally even funnier, though.
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Gavok posted:I'm okay. It's the eventual Army of Darkness comics article that has me afraid. Most of those aren't as painful as you'd expect. Most....
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Lurdiak posted:Most of those aren't as painful as you'd expect. 
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Some of them are genuinely fun and actually good, yeah. Some are just kinda dumb fun, others are just completely forgettable, and a few are complete dog doo doo. By far the biggest waste of time among those I read was the one that adapted the original Evil Dead, I guess under the fair assumption that most people are only familiar with 2 and 3. It tried to retroactively apply Ash's douchey personality from the sequels to his character in the first movie, who was simply a weenie who got pushed too far by crazy events. It didn't work at all, and it had none of the charm that the original film has. Speaking of Evil Dead 1 Ash, I appreciated the AoD comic storyline where Ash wished himself a better world where he'd never been involved with deadites. It reverted his personality from Duke Nukem to happy spineless dork, since he hadn't been FORGED IN HELLFIRE yet. Sheila was now his modern day girlfriend and remembered everything, and was dismayed at how much of a boring loser Ash was, despite being happy for him.
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muscles like this? posted:In a similar vein, I just read this write up about the Halloween comics and how they do more interesting things with the concept than the movie sequels. To be fair, it doesn't take much to be better than the Halloween sequels.
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TwoPair posted:To be fair, it doesn't take much to be better than the Halloween sequels. I was watching the Cinema Snob's videos about the fourth and fifth films, and he mentioned in passing the sheer amount of behind-the-scenes, bureaucratic nonsense that surrounded them. It's sort of interesting.
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edit; I am shamed.
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Nov 4, 2015 02:52
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Wrong thread nerd.
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I was just looking around for Onyx talk on the forum and discovered that ROM is getting a new comic book series? I mean I'd rather Marvel have gotten the rights back but holy poo poo yes! ...Please don't suck Rom!
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X-O posted:Micronauts - writer Cullen Bunn gently caress YOU FUCKIN WHY WHY DO YOU NOT WANT ME TO READ YOUR COMIC IDW I THINK IM ONE OF THE EIGHT PEOPLE WHO REMEMBER MICRONAUTS THAT AREN'T CULLEN BUNN OR DAN ABNETT WHY WOULD YOU GIVE IT TO NOTED BAD COMICS WRITER CULLEN BUNN gently caress YOU IDW i would punch a baby to read dan abnett's micronauts but NO you give it to the guy who writes bad deadpool minis and manages to make "magic six shooters in the old west that can summon the apocalypse" boring, you fucks
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Abnett has been pretty terrible lately, though Hercules #1 was promising. Bunn on the other hand has written a lot of good stuff in the last few years. I'd be much more likely to read a title with Bunn on the cover than Abnett right now.
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X-O posted:Bunn on the other hand has written a lot of good stuff in the last few years. maybe if you don't speak english and are inventing the stories whole cloth from the pictures like i used to do with tokusatsu that hadn't been subtitled yet but remidner that he did half of that minimum carnage bullshit, which used the prometheus pit from micronauts and the microverse and some other poo poo, and it was unreadable garbage also all the deadpool minis are bad at the very best, he's aggressively mediocre (magneto, sixth gun)
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plus a ghost helps dan abnett write books, and he loves mantlo's poo poo, that's two great tastes right there
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I agree that most of the Deadpool minis were bad because it took him a long time to get a handle on the character (The Night of the Living Deadpool one was good) but he writes plenty of good stuff. Hellbreak, Harrow County, Sixth Gun, and the first issue of Blood Feud was quite good. Also his Moon Knight run was great. Abnett on the other hand really let me down with his terrible Guardians 3000 and his Secret Wars tie in was among the worst of the bunch. I never read any of his Carnage stuff, because Carnage is terrible regardless. EDIT: Oh God I didn't even mention Bunn's Magneto which is a fantastic series. X-O fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Nov 22, 2015 |
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