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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Space Knight '79
award-winning creator of the web series Abnormal Fixation (2024), the audio drama Enter the House Between (2023) and author of 35 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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Poor ROM. Caught in copyright Hell. Even Rocket Raccoon is back as Marvel goes retro-crazy; but ROM's got to remain in the dustbin of comic history.
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ReplyDeleteWhat's the story with ROM, do you know? I'm just curious as to why there hasn't been a reinvention or continuation...
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Maybe the toy isn't cool enough for Hasbro (the owner of Parker Brothers) to bring back, nor for marvel to publish as a title (you know how Marvel is these days...)
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ReplyDeleteSo, ROM is back, but not from Marvel. IDW has the rights. And they are doing a shared universe with some other former Marvel properties - GI Joe, Transformers and MASK.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.idwpublishing.com/trending_titles/rom/