Come, Sup Forums. Lets read one of the best parts of this year's Free Comic Book Day

Come, Sup Forums. Lets read one of the best parts of this year's Free Comic Book Day.

The glorious return of ROM! SPACE KNIGHT!

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And here's a download link if you want it.

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Here he is. In all his toaster-headed glory.

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And here we have the new Dire Wraiths.

They kinda look like... um... remember End of Evangelion? Those creepy white things with the smiling faces and the lipstick? Like those.

Shelter the children with no shoes on their feet...

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And thats it. Your mouth watering yet?

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Hope Hasbro makes a new figure to go with this.

I'd buy it.

So, anyone wanna read the bonus Action Man story that came with it?

Looks like they're no longer from Limbo as well.

Too soon to say.

It really isn't.

twitter.com/Christosgage/status/729332099098910720

I thought that was were Rom banished them?

They kind of look like the Iszes from The Maxx too, only bigger. They can still do the stabbing-proboscis thing to steal someone's form, so I'm down with that.

ROM almost had an Eva-01 head. Not sure how I feel about that.

Yeah, the Dire Wraiths are from Wraithworld in the Dark Nebula, a planet so foul that when Galactus nearly ate it at Rom's behest, his reaction was "are you trying to fucking poison me." They're originally from the Skrull homeworld, but they eventually settles on Wraithworld and fouled it up with magic powered by the Dark Nebula's black sun.

10/10

Thanks OP

Boco, stop trying to storytime, you fucking nerd

Yes sir...

Well, I'm off to bed. Night Sup Forums.

>Dire Wraiths

???????
wasn't that a marvel creation?

No.

youtube.com/watch?v=ktFvrEQKdjw

Marvel still owns their versions, though, hence why the ones here are rather different.

They're shapechangers, so maybe that's just a chosen "combat form" though?

What's the big deal with Rom? Why is so beloved? I really don't get it and this issue didn't help at all.

His hand turns into gun? I'm not familiar with Space Knights.

So this is like a half-size issue?

Glad someone else storytimed this. I was going to if no one else did it first.

Thank God they went with simpler design.

Read the original run by Bill Mantlo. That's it. We like Bill Mantlo's writing.

Nothing about this new ROM is interesting at all.

Mantlo's writing was shit though. It was 100% about the content.

What did user mean by this?

Nice cover.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE MNAN IS BACK BAY-BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never though I would see this again. This is utterly mindblowing to actually see this come true.

What happened to his normal weapons? Hasbro owns those, right?

I thought Marvel owned the Dire Wraiths, James Gunn lied.

WTF?

The fuck is ROM doing there?

Why is this motherfucker revealing his true form in front of humans? They were smarter than that in the original book.

Well that dude's dead.

He was going to kill them anyway.

WTF? That is just absolutely FUCKED looking. Dire Wraiths are still shape shifters, right? So are they always going to look like this or will they have other forms?

Is ROM killing these motherfuckers? Because I'm not seeing any shit about limbo.

The old run was good, also this is just a few pages so wait for the full comic to come out.

Anyway it was eitheir this or have Marvel take charge of Rom again and have the comic written by Bendis because Bendis wanted to write it and Alonso wanted to give Rom to him.

What's this shit about "the wraithmark?

Limbo is a Marvel owned thing so no they can't be from Limbo anymore

marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo_(Otherplace)

I was worried they'd fuck up the design, but they only changed minor stuff and didn't do anything drastic make any fundamental changes to the classic design. It still looks like ROM.

This looks GORGEOUS. Is that gonna be the cover to issue #1?

So then what the fuck is happening to them?

They own the original version of the Dire Wraiths and also a version of the Spaceknights.

So no more Rogue/ROM?

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The opening narration touched a part of me that has lain dormant since early Who.

bump

Ok, that was pretty decent. And I'm glad to see ROM still talks all majestic. And it's funny to see Ryall being an absolute fanboy and getting as many awesome artists as possible to come do a ROM cover. Pic related.

So she fucks a robot?

Also, putting an ad at the end for the Bill Mantlo recovery fund was the absolute classiest of class moves.

The marvel dire wraiths were practically walking piles of flesh. I guess it's always debatable what they look like.

Being a hero!

>Now Chris, we know you're very happy to have ROM and all, but don't you think twenty different variant covers by different artists is a bit excessive?
>You know what, you're right, we have enough covers for issue 1.
>Oh thank Go--
>So let's put ROM in the cover of everything else we publish!

Apparently it's a clumsily delivered plot hook.

She's a robo sexual.

Pretty funny that the worst her kiss did was Mae ROM feel things.

Match made in Heaven for you, huh Judge?

Hell yeah. And it's by John McCrea, who I fucking love.

>Nothing about this new ROM is interesting at all.
Maybe it's cause I didn't read the original, but when I picked it up I thought it looked interesting.

Is this pre-Wanda/Vision relationship or post?

>ROM by Sienkiewicz 01.jpg

That is absolutely spectacular. Sienkiewicz has still got it.

Is that seriously John Buscema?

THAT is a team-up that needs to happen!

kek, don't think so

Sal Buscema, actually. Who you may remember drew one half of ROM's original series. The other half was drawn by Steve Ditko. And if Ryall manages to get a cover outta him then it's officially the end of days.

WTF is that from?

>fucking ROM returned before The Platoon even got a release date

Your guess = Mine.

Man, you just had to go and bum it all out, didn't you?

Looks like a Nephilim from warmahordes. It'd be pretty neat to see Rom take on the Legion.

He's killing them. I'm not sure how much more obvious they can make that.

>Captain America White finished before The Platoon even started
>ROM Spaceknight came back before The Platoon was released
>Micronauts came back before The Platoon was released
>Ennis wrote a Hitman spin-off before The Platoon was released
>The Fix started before The Platoon did
>Luther Strode will finish before The Platoon even begins
>Jupiter's Legacy will almost 100% guaranteed be over before The Platoon is published
>The Multiversity came out before The Platoon did
>Wonder Woman Earth One came out before The Platoon did
>Scout was announced to continue by Timothy Truman before The Platoon was announced for release
>Frank Miller returned to comics to do Dark Knight III before The Platoon even had an official announcement from Marvel
>All Star Batman and Robin continued before The Platoon even started coming out
>Pre-New 52 Superman returned before The Platoon had a release date
>Gwen Stacy came back before Punisher MAX did
>General Stacy came back before Punisher MAX did
>UNCLE BEN came back before Punisher MAX did
>Len Wein wrote Swamp Thing again before Ennis got to write Punisher again
>STEVE FUCKING DITKO ANNOUNCED HIS RETURN TO COMICS BEFORE THE PLATOON EVEN GOT AN OFFICIAL FUCKING ANNOUNCEMENT

At this rate I expect Fell to continue, Super Pro KO volume 3 to come out, and Stan Lee to die all before The Platoon hits shelves.

>Groo vs. Conan came out before The Platoon

Why should I care? Marvel ows everything that made the character interesting. He's a blank slate.

ROM's purity and valor were really the things that made him so endearing. And this is a pretty well done comic.

Wow that art is generic and incredibly boring and yeah stripped of his context ROM becomes just another blank slate man in suit guy.

In Marvel Legends or Universe scale pls

The finale of Hickman/Weaver SHIELD and a Gamora series will come out before The Platoon

Anyone have any idea how many copies this moved?

It's like they already signed a movie deal, starring Rhianna.

OH SHI-

You're right!

This isn't as good as the original number one

Good thing its number zero, then.

Is 'The Platoon' the Duke Nukem Forever of comics?

>STEVE FUCKING DITKO ANNOUNCED HIS RETURN

Wait, whut?

Aw.
I mean, fuck the Dire Wraiths, but I kind of liked no-kills Rom. Made for some tension with people like Terminator and gave him some of that classic tormented conscience purple prose.

A Rom who just wastes people and give no fucks loses a bit of his character.

Poor.

He's got a Kickstarter going on right now for some new Mr. A issues. Or maybe reprints. I dunno, the KS is kinda obfuscating.

Wasn't Multiversity in the works for 8 years? I'd say that's closer.

Thanks, OP.

bumping for others.