The Completist - Nomad: Girl without a World
Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 12:29AM 
If you've been reading Young Allies (reviewed here) or her backup features in Captain America, you may well be asking yourself "Who is this Nomad person and why should I care?" Created by the same team that brought you Young Allies, Nomad: Girl Without A World will answer that for you.
Rikki Barnes is a wholesome, good natured, practical sixteen year old who served as Captain America's sidekick Bucky in the old Liefeld helmed "Heroes Reborn" alternate universe. Now living in the mainstream Marvel universe (Universe 616, for the trivia fans among you), at the beginning of the Nomad graphic novel, she's a (admittedly very sensible and stable) teenager without a family or even the 616 version of Steve Rogers Captain America to imprint on because he was "dead" at the time.
Let me pause to say that in this volume Rikki is written very well. Over the course of the book, she acclimates to her new world despite some heartbreaking situations, with a matter of fact tenacity and grace that can't help but endear her to the reader. Rikki, as portrayed in this comic, is great - the plot isn't her fault.
Background, the Marvel universe is no stranger to some truly bizarre and Freudian plots. The evil robot Ultron calls his creator Hank Pym "father" and is in love with Pym's ex-wife Janet. At one point Ultron stole Iron Man's body and shape and gendershifted it into an exact replica of Jan to better express hir love. And Ms. Marvel was mindcontrolled into giving birth to the new body of the space tyrant who raped her. So by Marvel standards, the plot of Nomad isn't that out there.
I am not making this up.
Really, it isn't that strange that Rikki's primary antagonist is her alternate universer brother driven to evil and pseudo-Neo-Nazism by his unknowingly incestuous thwarted love for her.
Hold up. Wait.
Rikki's primary antagonist is her alternate universer brother driven to evil and pseudo-Neo-Nazism by his unknowingly incestuous thwarted love for her.
It starts out so reasonably! In her own universe Rikki's brother John was both dead and evil. Imagine her happiness when she finds him both alive and actually nice in her new world! Of course, she befriends him and makes sure to go to the same school to spend time with him - not that she tells him the sister from another reality thing.
One "Let's just be friends" later, he's bonkers insane and totally evil.
So, wait, is the moral of the story "Never befriend a guy you won't date" or "If he doesn't know you're related, just date him, it will be easier"?
Don't look at me, I didn't come up with the plot.
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