I was happy to see that my local comic shop set aside the above cover variant of the ROM Revolution one shot issue. This one was drawn by Rob Liefield and I love that it looks a lot like the classic ROM.
Well this one shot was interesting since it begins with ROM flying into Seattle, Washington with Camilla in tow. It appears to take place before the Revolution series begins since there is no sign of G.I. Joe (except for one) or the Transformers in Seattle yet in this story.
This one shot's primary purpose was to introduce a new antagonist called Axiom to the ROM universe, and we learn how Axiom came to be through a flashback. As you would expect, Axiom was engineered by Dire Wraiths, one posing as a key figure that I don't want to spoil for you, so that they can ultimately test the limits of ROM's abilities.
At the end of this one shot, ROM figures out who the Wraiths are and is off to the races to track them down, which in turn leads into the first issue of Revolution.
This issue was a little confusing at the beginning as to where this story fits into ROM's series timeline, but a tweet on Chris Ryall's Twitter mentions that the one shot comes after ROM issue #4 (which at this time of this writing, is not out yet). If it turns out that is the case, maybe this one shot, and the rest of Revolution, shouldn't have happened so quickly so the stories could play out in the order they should. That is a little disappointing, but on the bright side, I am always happy to read more ROM stories. It was nice to pick up three issues during September that had ROM stories (for the record it was ROM #3, ROM Revolution, and Revolution #1).
Please comment with your thoughts or theories about the ROM Revolution one-shot and which variant cover you got or which one is your favorite.
Grade: B-
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