Issue(s): ROM #33
Cover Date: Aug 82
Title: "Choosing sides!"
Credits:
Bill Mantlo - Writer
Sal Buscema - Penciler
Joe Sinnott - Inker
Ann Nocenti & Al Milgrom - Editor

Review/plot:
Ann Nocenti is listed as Editor on the opening splash but she's still listed as Assistant Editor on the letters page.

ROM departs Clairton (for real this time, after having to return when Torpedo failed to stop Hybrid), and encounters a Dire Wraith witch who was planning a mystical sacrifice of a young blind girl named Sibyl. Fighting the Wraith, she claims that when the Spaceknights previously encountered Wraithworld, 200 years ago, they did not encounter all of its monsters, "such as I have become". I choose to use this - and this is completely unsubstantiated - to rationalize why ROM hasn't thought it at all odd that all he's been encountering so far are the the male Dire Wraiths.

For a while now, and this will again continue after this issue, ROM issues have featured guest appearances by Marvel heroes and villains. And i like that. But this issue takes a break to focus on ROM and his villains, and it's a nice change of pace.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: ROM will still be with Sybil at the beginning of next issue.

References:

• ROM's planet of Galador became lost to him in ROM #27. Because searching for it "could take centuries", ROM is concentrating on clearing Earth of Dire Wraiths.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A