New ROM and Mircronauts comics from IDW

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I can see Marvel replacing Rom with Ikon:

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Ikon is an enigmatic female Spaceknight who appeared on Knowhere claiming to be the leader of The Annihilators and the Greatest Living Spaceknight.

What gets me is what is IDW going to with Rom the Not Space Knight.

[Starroid Raiders Dagon]

I think Rom is listed as Spaceknight on his original toy packaging. Lots of concern online that neither property can do well without the characters owned by the Marvel Universe. I remember both series had unbelievable artists, and writers, so hope IDW can pull that off. I'm going in with high hopes.

[ubermanx]

Remember that IDW has an excellent relationship with Marvel. Just look at the Artist Edition reprints IDW does of Marvel material.

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And there is the continuation of the Marvel GI Joe: Real American Hero comic.

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I do understand licensing with Hasbro over GI Joe is different than ROM and Micronauts. but given this good working relationship perhaps a deal has been struck that regardless of ownership we will see the full Marvel series reprinted and perhaps continued with all the names and characters.

Looking forward to a lot more clarification from IDW int he coming weeks.

- Marty

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Just for giggles visit my Micronauts wiki and look at the failed cartoons:

http://comic-books-in-the-media.wiki...CS:_Micronauts

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By Jay Cochron at TNI:

I had a chance to talk with Hasbro's Derryl DePriest this weekend about the return of Micronauts and ROM. So he first confirmed the news but says they aren't quit ready to reveal their plans yet. He did say we can expect things to start off with Micronauts in a fairly big way and then move on to ROM. We should likely hear more about these next year during Toy Fair.

So far away.....

[emeraldknight47]

Next Year?!? I want my ROM fix NOW!!!

[samurainoir]

[3Storms]

I am kinda curious; I hope they do the Micronauts characters from the comic books which never got made in the past besides Acroyear and Baron Karza.