Then again, the Commission is a bit of a hard sell for a book such as this.įnord, couldn't you just place the entire Nomad series before Uncanny 265-266? Is there some reason that wouldn't work? Alternately, why can't Val be Mystique in disguise?Īs i say in the today's Added Today note, this is just floating in 1991 until i decide what to do with it. I hope the context makes it clearer (and also why Gyrich would be so lenient). I have a hint of what "liberate the target" may mean, but I am really not sure. The twists and turns are a bit hard to follow since we're dealing with a bunch of characters that aren't introduced very well, and who don't have distinct looks. At least, i *think* that's what's going on. And then he gets killed, and Nomad gives the money from the drug deal to his family. But then it turns out that he's working with the Feds to get the dealers arrested. But as the investigation continues, it seems like the father is working with the drug dealers. In this first one, Nomad rescues a young woman that was being attacked by drug dealers, and he's thanked by the father. Instead of the sparse, no nonsense stories of Mike Baron's Punisher, Fabian Nicieza goes for complex and busy plots and a lot of twists. ![]() Personally i find the stories here to be pretty boring. Cap is following up on info that AIM is operating in the area, and Nomad's response is "AIM? Weapons developers with buckets on their heads, trying to take over the world? Right." Nomad is dealing with real problems. but the appearance probably reinforces the idea that Cap's methods are stodgy as opposed to indicating that something is wrong with Nomad. So it's with that in mind that we should view Nomad shooting the knees off of drug dealers. The note reminds us that Jack Munroe's first appearance in the modern era was as an unstable product of the paranoid 1950s, and that Gruenwald had been pushing the character back in that direction in his later Captain America appearances. The note in issue #2 does let us know that we're not necessarily supposed to be taking this guy at face value, or rooting for him. And the blurb: "He's found his own way to fight for the American dream. One look at the cover of this issue will tell you that. There's no doubt that this book has captured the zeitgeist of the grim & gritty 90s. So that may indicate that sales and fan response was positive. But at least at the time of issue #2 (per a note in the lettercol), it seemed like at most what they were hoping for was a second mini-series, if this one did well. ![]() Part of the explanation is that Marvel was expanding its line in the 90s, and it sometimes seems like anything could get greenlit. But what's interesting is that this mini will be followed up with an ongoing series. Since i grew up in an era where everyone from Jack of Hearts to Gargoyle got a mini-series, the idea of Nomad getting one doesn't strike me as that odd.
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