Far away, in another galaxy, the knights of the Solstar Order, defenders of justice and truth, were ambushed by the evil magicians, the Dire Wraiths. In the end, the Solstar Order prevailed and began seeking out its scattered enemies. One of these knights has followed the trail of the Dire Wraiths all the way to Earth. This knight, the one the Dire Wraiths fear more than all others has hounded them and kept them underground for centuries and could wipe them off the face of creation. He is ROM, Lord of the Solstar Order, Rom, the Wraithslayer. Collects issues #0–4 and Rom: Revolution #1. 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 the fan-favorite  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 ,  World War Hulk: X-Men ,  X-Men/Spider-Man ,  Thunderbolts , and many more. He has also written for DC ( Justice League Beyond ), IDW ( G.I. Joe: Cobra ), Dynamite ( Red Sonja ,  The Man With No Name ), Avatar ( Absolution ,  Crossed ), Valiant ( Bloodshot & H.A.R.D. Corps ), and Wildstorm ( Stormwatch PHD ,  Wildcats ). 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, currently, Hasbro’s Rom. Ryall and ZvR co-creator Ashley Wood were nominated for the 2006 Eisner Award for “Best Short Story.”