Ever heard of an old Marvel comic called "ROM: Spaceknight".

http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/comics/Rom/

I had a single issue of it from a used book store, where he teams up with sub-mariner to battle the "wraiths" or whatever they were called underwater. They had taken all these awesome forms resembling weird, alien deep sea organisms, one just looked like a big floating heart covered in tubes.

The science was a bit silly...tube heart monster's power was to spew "coral," which was like a molten yellow substance that hardened like cement.

woah cool

Well....a nondescript reddish blob. I call it heart-like.



Pic from here if it doesn't show:

http://siskoid.blogspot.com/2008/12/spacek...ms-up-with.html

I like the non-descript red blob much better than a heart with tubes.

The heart-creature seems like a direct interpretation of Robert Bloch's Star Vampire.

No talons.

Maybe they're inside its tubes?

Funny how the toy this comic was based off of/meant to promote is a lot less well-remembered/well-regarded than the comic itself.

And I don't get why they haven't done a ROM figure for any of the Marvel toylines since the makers of the original toy, Parker Brothers, are now owned by Hasbro which also owns the rights to make Marvel toys.

I love Rom

poor ROM is single. help ROM find a space knight lady

Good lord for a single page bio that is a monster

I don't know much about this series, but I've seen the covers and I have to say that one of my favourites is this one.

The reason I like this one is that the alien is coming stright out at the reader from the black background. Nice way to show a sence of dread.

I think they are called Dire Wraiths.. aliens of the brain sucking variety.

That is an awsome name for a race of gloopy space monsters. Shall have to look for sacns of this series online.

I like the beaks inside of their hands a lot.

Apparently their females are in charge, practice dark magic and are the only ones who show off their true form. Males, for some cultural reason, are ashamed of how they really look and only appear shape-shifted. They're also more superstitious, favoring science, and often minions of the female "witches."

Why aren't these more popular?

Funny, the Dire Wraiths don't look female to me.

I just love anything with the word Dire in its title/name. I don't know why. It just makes everything seem so much more badass to me.

Why would they? Virtually no other species in real life has females that "look female" to a human. In many animals the female is even the bulkier, more dangerous, more menacing one.

mmm human-centric boredom conformist/mainstream premodern BULLSHIT WORTHLES OPINONIONS

Marvel can use everything from this comic Except ROM himself for some licensing reason. Like how Nintendo can use the cast of Doki Doki Panic except for the main characters.

It's the little things that make an alien cool to me, and I love any alien that uses magic. I am a little tired of the use of matriarchy to make something more "strange." I like a good oppressive matriarchy as much as anyone but why not have dominance based on something that is truly foreign to humans?

The Dire Wraiths kicked Galactus' bum, too.

Galactus, I am forever in your debt for the words "obscene pesthole."