Parting Shot: ROM: Spaceknight Seemingly Returns In 'Age Of Ultron' Preview Art

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Well, blow me down.!

IMHO, it seems like Marvel may be going in a typical direction I forgot about; that is, change the distinctive look of the character in question and continue. The licensees that hold the rights don't have to give their blessings for it (although that coulda happened) all you gotta do is change stuff up and use the story/background Marvel came up with those many years ago. They sorta did this with Micronauts, but they didn't bother to rename/redesign the toys and only the characters Marvel made (there was no "Arcturus Rand" or "Marionette" or "Bug" figures, even though rumor had it Bug was a supposed representation of Galactic Defender).

As for the name, ROM is pretty non-specific and as Sims pointed out, there wasn't much to the toyline besides one (cool) figure and little to no backstory (Marvel came up with all that). It could be brought to courts, but I doubt it (at least I hope it doesn't get bought). The only thing is I'd like to see the whole armor and decide if it was cool for my tastes and yes, I know that is subjective, but ROM is from "my time" and I hope I can live with it at least (I'd probably have a larger visor from that one pic we got more in tune with his former self, but I can let that slide).

I remember space knight armor was as different, yet similar as Acroyear armor from Micronauts (well, the helmets had variances. Thumbs up to Acroyear down below). This is how I had hoped Mandolorian armor woulda been handled in clone wars (and even EU) but unfortunately, it isn't. For the space knights, there were design similarities in there armor/uniform but they retained differences. It wouldn't be too far a stretch to say ROM got replacement armor or a more modern replacement with a different look.

Not trusting Pym is probably a good rule of thumb at any time. I don't have anything against Pym, I'm just sayin'.

yeah and that picture doesnt look anything like canadian acting/rapping sensation Drake.

Am I the only one noticing this looks NOTHING like ROM? Or did he get a "facelift" at some point? Just curious...

I can see Bendis doing this. That's one of his signature moves after all. Sudden return of random obscure 70s/80s character that he liked in his youth.

Also one of Marvel's signature moves to completely blow the surprise way ahead of time.

see the latest news and fan art for ROM spaceknight here : http://romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/

As an aside, Marvel has put up their late 90's Spaceknight mini by Starlin and Batista on the digital stores. It certainly seems like they are gearing up for a Spaceknight push.

Spider-Man will be very upset to see "Parker" on that photo.

... and Bucky Barnes is back in the Cap outfit
.... and Carol is Ms Marvel, not Captain Marvel
... and Deadpoolshows up twice (?)
... and Patriot, Charles Xavier, Kurt not-from-AoA Wagner, etc

There are too many issues of continuity with this panel they chose to show to not be a red herring of some kind