Rom: Cold Fire, Hot War

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The evil Dire Wraiths have escaped to Earth, but are hounded by a Knight of the Solstar Order, the one feared more than all others. He is Rom, the Wraith-slayer. Rom, the Spaceknight! The evil Dire Wraiths have escaped to Earth, but are hounded by a Knight of the Solstar Order, the one feared more than all others. He is Rom, the Wraith-slayer. Rom, the Spaceknight! Having followed the Dire Wraiths across the galaxy, Rom finds they have infiltrated all levels of society, hiding in plain sight. Replacing many humans in key leadership positions, the Wraiths' plan to dominate the planet--and everyone on it--is gaining momentum. But Rom finds resistance from the humans as well, who fear he is just another alien invading Earth. He is joined in the battle by two other Solstar Knights... but are they here as friends or foes? Collects all 14 issues of the series, the 2017 Annual, and the Rom- Revolution one-shot.

Chris Ryall is the Chief Creative Officer at IDW Publishing and the co-creator of Zombies vs Robots with Ashley Wood. Ryall has also co-created and written Groom Lake, The Colonized, The Hollows, and Onyx, and has also written adaptations of stories by Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Richard Matheson. He is also the co-author of a prose book about comics, Comic Books 101, and has written comics based on the Transformers, the band Kiss, Mars Attacks, Weekly World News, and, Hasbro's Rom. Ryall and ZvR co-creator Ashley Wood were nominated for the 2006 Eisner Award for "Best Short Story." Christos Gage is a New York Times bestselling writer of movies, television, comics, graphic novels, and video games. He often collaborates with his wife, Ruth Fletcher Gage. Gage has written hundreds of comic books, working with nearly every publisher in the industry. For Marvel, he co-created Avengers Academy, writing the entire forty-issue run, and has also written such titles as Superior Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men Legacy, Avengers- The Initiative, Iron Man, X-Men/Spider-Man, Thunderbolts, and many more. He has also written for DC, IDW, Dynamite, Avatar , Valiant, and Wildstorm.

"Writers Chris Ryall and Christos Gage apply some clever spins to this series' time-honored tropes, but the real superstar of this series is artist David Messina, whose fluid style smoothly brings Rom into the 21st century." --David Pepose, Newsarama "IDW Publishing and Hasbro Entertainment are onto a sure-fire winner with Rom." --Paul Bowler, Sci-Fi Jubilee