Oh Brotherhood, where art thou?

Rom: Spaceknight #31-39 & Annual #1
At long last - here is the update that was supposed to come your way almost 2 weeks ago. I had a wonderful long vacation to the Bahamas over the holiday. Thank you Carnival Cruises for a fantastic trip! (no, I'm not getting paid to say that) More Rom brought to you by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema again with the exception of the annual, which was penciled by Micronauts alum Pat Broderick. FYI: #31& 32 brings Rom into conflict with The Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants (whose membership at the time included future X-Man Rogue). Also look out for return appearances by the Torpedo and villain Hybrid. The Sub-Mariner guest-stars in #34 & 35 as our Galadorian Spaceknight goes on an undersea adventure. Shang-Chi, Master Of Kung Fu appears in the final two issues in this pack.

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Download #37-39

Apologies.

I'm really sorry I didn't get to do an update yesterday. I was in the middle of packing for my vacation and time slipped away from me. The bad news is this will most likely be my last post until the 30th of this month (when I get back) , but I did want to let you all know in the short time I have right now on my laptop. Anyways, see you then and Happy early Thanksgiving!

Long was the fall that had no end.

"Little By Little (Remix Long Version)" - Robert Plant
Taken from Plant's third solo LP, Shaken 'n' Stirred. The album was released on May 20, 1985 and the song peaked at #36 on Billboard's Hot 100. Even though it wasn't a commercial success the album was applauded as a creative highlight of Plant's career. This was mainly due to the synth work by keyboardist Jezz Woodroffe that gave the album a New Wave kind of groove. Psst. What? Little By Little was featured on Miami Vice. Get right outta here?! Yeah it was, as a matter of fact. Glad you mentioned that. It was 2nd season episode Junk Love. This mix was done by Mark Saunders and Rob Dickins and lasts 5:10. Saunders also did remixes for Erasure, Depeche Mode, The Cure and Yazz. Back tomorrow with more Rom.

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Love...exciting and new.

"So In Love (Special American Dance Mix)" - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
The first single from their album Crush in the early summer of 1985 was also the song that broke them onto the American charts. I know it certainly was the first tune I ever heard from this band. It peaked at #26.
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Rom: Spaceknight #24-30
Double update today. Galactus, Nova and the Skrulls show out in this batch. #25 is a double-sized issue, as you can see to the left, and the core creative team remains unchanged.
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Luke Cage, Wraith Killer.

Rom: Spaceknight #21-23 + Power Man & Iron Fist #73 

 Issue 21 starts a two-parter and features the return of Brock Jones aka The Torpedo, who finds out (minor spoiler) the Wraiths had a hand in the creation of his battlesuit.

The Heroes For Hire duo Cage and Fist also show up to help Rom in today's batch of comics too. There's cameos by a lot of other Marvel heroes as well during another two-part story that begins in Power Man & Iron Fist #73 and concludes in Rom #23. The Saga Of The Spaceknights secondary story concludes during all this too. Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema continue to do the story and art in Rom's title. The Power Man & Iron Fist book included here was written by Mary Jo Duffy and drawn by Greg LaRocque. Duffy was the former editor of the Rom comic (on the first 17 issues) and went on to also write Star Wars, Conan The Barbarian and Wolverine during her time at Marvel. LaRocque is probably most famous for his run with Mark Waid on DC Comics' Flash in the 90's.

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Schoolgirl fantasy.

The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me '86 (Dance Mix)
The original version of this song was released in 1980. It broke the top 10 here in the USA and in the UK it was the best selling single of the year. It was re-recorded and changed quite a bit in 1986 for inclusion on The Police's greatest hits package titled Every Breath You Take: The Singles. Drummer Stewart Copeland had broken his collarbone and was unable to play on the song so it was decided to use a drum machine. Copeland wanted to use his own Fairlight CMI for this task, while Sting pushed for his own Synclavier synth to be used instead. Ultimately Copeland won but this little dispute was what, according to Copeland, "broke the camel's back" and lead to the group disbanding before this version was ever released. The track itself was written by Sting and tells the story of a teacher's student falling for him and his indecisive feelings about it. Sting denies the song is autobiographical despite the fact he was once a teacher. Hey, it's possible nothing like this ever happened to him. Not very likely, but possible. 5 bucks says he nailed her. C'mon.

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Rom-alicious.

Rom: Spaceknight #13-20

"Battlin'" Bill Mantlo and "Snazzy" Sal Buscema bring the spectacular Spaceknight to you again! Pretty good Stan Lee huh? No? Those of you who are alert (and by that I mean not stoned) will recognize Marvel's merry mutants (Must...stop...Stan-Leeing) with Rom on the cover to #17. Yep, the X-Men turn up for a couple issues in this next batch of Romics. There's also Fantastic Four baddie The Mad Thinker, the Space Phantom and the debut of recurring villain Hybrid. But wait there's more: the backup story "Saga Of The Spaceknights" revealing some of Rom's life before he came to Earth begins here. A couple of his fellow 'knights show up on Earth in #20, but are they friend or foe True Believers?!? Okay. I'm done. Enjoy.

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