ROM #2

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[cainofdreaming]

I know that these first issues have to set up groundwork, origin and all, but, boy, is Rom so chatty.

[locuatico]

as Linkara put it, eighties dialogue in all it's glory.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Nah. Rom's just always been a poetic bad ass ;)

[icon_uk]

Miss Piggy - "Why are you telling me all this?"

Lady Holliday (Diana Rigg) - "It's plot exposition, it has to go somewhere"

"The Great Muppet Caper"

[lonewolf23k]

So, basically the same origin as with the Marvel version, but with changes to Rom's Homeworld's name, as well as to the Space Knights order. Also, while he's officially a Space Knight, odds are they won't ever use that on the cover.

[featheredserpent]

"Space Knight" isn't "SpaceKnight(TM)"

[locuatico]

When he asked about earth's policy to deal with aliens, my first reaction was "it will be funny when she tells him earth has none" and then the dialogue two pages laters made me realize "oh, that's right! this is canon to idw's Transformers"

[commodus]

I never liked the idea of a whole species being evil, or being "evil" because you studied "dark arts" and strayed from a conventional philosophical or moral path.

I wonder if any Dire-Wraiths use their abilities to help others? They can't ALL be bad, surely?

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

In all fairness, the Dire Wraiths are less a species and more a mystical infection. A hive-mind of 'The Dark Side'.

The original dire wraiths weren't evil, when Rom was in the MU, though