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1985-06-01 01:04:10
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1985 / Box 22 / EiC: Jim Shooter

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ROM #67

Issue(s): ROM #67
Cover Date: Jun 85
Title: "Lifesong"
Credits:
Bill Mantlo - Writer
Steve Ditko - Penciler
P. Craig Russell - Inker
Mike Carlin - Editor

Review/plot:
With the Wraithwar over, this series takes a turn to something like the early Strange Tales style comics where ROM travels from planet to planet in space and encounters unusual civilizations or other situations. It's actually a nice change of pace for the book and a good vehicle for Ditko's art (and the more abstract we get, the more i like P. Craig Russell's inks over Ditko's pencils).

In this story, ROM finds a world where the people are kept in cryogenic storage for a millennium at a time and only awoken for less than a day when the planet's twin suns are in the right position.

For action, ROM gets into a brief altercation with the planet's guardian, but he solves things by using his translator device to convince the guardian that he means no harm.

Minor question: back in ROM #23, ROM had to borrow a Skrull Saucer from the Fantastic Four in order to return to his homeworld. But after the Wraithwar, ROM seems capable of interstellar space flight without a ship, and that's actually how he arrived on Earth in issue #1 as well. I wonder what it was about his trip in issue #23 that required an spaceship.

Quality Rating: C+

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

  • Rick Jones is dying of cancer after exposing himself to gamma rays in an attempt at becoming a second Hulk in Hulk #269-270.
  • Even with the Wraithwar over, ROM is unable to return to a human body because half of his humanity was destroyed during the fight with Galactus in ROM #26-27.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

Characters Appearing: Cindy Adams, Rick Jones, ROM, Starshine II

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Comments

Regarding your question - on his own, the journey took 200 years right? So I'm guessing that though he can seem to fly at faster-than-light, it's a slower ftl than the Skrull ship. (The Skrulls come from a different galaxy, right? So their ships are capable of rapid inter-galactic transportation)

Posted by: Erik Robbins | October 13, 2013 2:55 PM




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