Idiot Fanboy Unboxing Rom Omnibus Vol. 2 HC

Unboxing Rom Omnibus Vol. 2 HC (June 2024) collecting stuff by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema from 1982-1984.
#MarvelOmnibus #IDW #Rom #BillMantlo #SalBuscema

[@MrPatrickAnonymous]

Good vidaya. Sounds like Rom was one of the hidden gems of 1980s Marvel

[@SonofCapwolf]

It was. People still love it. Jeffrey Lewis mentioned it in a song even.

[@robert2430]

My favorite part of this one is the Soviet Super Soldiers appearance. The art is great throughout with many nice splash pages.

[@robert2430]

You get it!

[@SonofCapwolf]

Really takes you back, dunnit?

[@darthknight1]

LOL. Thanks again for the Rom /Sub crossover. One of my few treasured comics, and largely simply because you sent them to me.

[@SonofCapwolf]

Apparently there is a seaweed monster in it from one of the very very first Tales to Astonish Sub-Mariner stories.

[@darthknight1]

I vote for Stardust 5:35 to be henceforth called "Twinkle". Wild design.

[@apilgrim8715]

Rom looks like Lord Flasheart on that Sienkiewicz cover.

[@kurumais]

woof

[@SonofCapwolf]

I don't know what that is. Is it an American thing like Laseriums?

[@aldinbaroza9640]

I was expecting you to call the alien impostors the Sultans of Swing.

[@SonofCapwolf]

WHY DIDN'T I CALL DOCTOR DREDD THE SULTAN OF SWING.

[@kurumais]

@@SonofCapwolf did this comic inspire brothers in arms?

[@darthknight1]

I prefer Sal's art. I am okay with a Mike Zeck varient cover for the omni though.

[@METALSCAVENGER78]

Rom rules I first read it through the pages of Greek Σπαιντερ-Μαν (Spider-Man) which had 66 pages with 3 different Marvel titles with Spider-Man being almost(with a very dew expections) rhe standard .The first issue I rememeber reading is issue 5 of Rom in Greek Spider-Man#204 in 1985 and it was an instant love of this series at age 6 and a half which I read through the end via the Greek Spider-Man comics.Half a year ago I bought all the issues of the original Rom The Space Knight series.I am even temoted to buy the 2 Romnibuses now 😂

[@SonofCapwolf]

For me, it was the mystery of there being a Marvel title that Marvel couldn't ever reprint with a Secret Wars II tie-in issue that they also couldn't include in the Secret Wars II omnibus. Then there was Rom's appearance on covers like Avengers #221 or West Coast Avengers #1. Finally when I learnt that Nova's series and stories were resolved in an issue of Rom and that Marvel couldn't even reprint that in the Nova collections (they had to print an issue of What If instead to provide any explanation for how Nova lost his powers). I needed to know all about it and after 10+ years of it being unreprintable, now Marvel can finally reprint it and I can read it all when Vol. 3 is out later this year.

[@markshulusky6680]

This was a great book, like a version of the classic Silver Surfer, but one that worked over the long haul (not easy with such a noble character, it becomes insufferable more often than not). And the whole idea was ripped off for Beta Ray Bill in Thor, so that's bringing recycling into it.

[@SonofCapwolf]

Beta Ray Bill appears in an issue of Rom later on. He's incorrectly drawn with Mjolnir for the whole thing, drives me mental it does.

[@robert2430]

I think 45, 46, and 48 would have been good covers

[@SonofCapwolf]

If they put a giant bear on the cover, people are going to be angry when they get the Omnibus and the bear is only in 2 issues.

[@robert2430]

50 cover was Mike Zeck

[@SonofCapwolf]

Any idea on the inker? I want to presume it was someone who was often inking Michael Golden.