Nomad Girl Without A World eBook Sean McKeever Ed Brubaker David Baldeon Rafael Albuquerque
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Collects Nomad Girl Without A World #1-4 and material from Captain America #600.
In her world, Rikki Barnes was the modern-day Bucky, teen sidekick to Captain America. In this world, the Cap she knew is dead, she never existed, and very little else is as she remembers. With no home, no income, and no legal identity, what's a girl to do? How about tracking down the new Cap, reconnecting with her brother, and running afoul of the Secret Empire? Sounds like a plan to us!
Nomad Girl Without A World eBook Sean McKeever Ed Brubaker David Baldeon Rafael Albuquerque
Nomad is a teen girl from another Earth. On said other Earth, she was Captain America's side-kick. Her name is Rikki Barnes, see? How Rikki ended up on our own Earth I don't know. But we see her trying to get by, studying as a teen would do, working nights to earn a living and seeking to meet this Earth's Cap', though she knows this Cap is not the real Cap but his former side-kick (are you following me?). When things go south at her college, with the Secret Empire's attempt at crowd control, she gets into action but has to pay a high price. With competent drawings but a rather pedestrian story of manipulation, this little book is a bit of a let-down. You will not miss anything if you do not buy it!Product details
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Nomad Girl Without A World eBook Sean McKeever Ed Brubaker David Baldeon Rafael Albuquerque Reviews
As I've found with many of McKeever's work, he creates and works with existing characters extremely well. Rikki Barnes is no exception. I hadn't heard of her before reading this miniseries, but McKeever manages to flesh her out within the first few pages, detailing her history. It's reminiscent of Captain America's struggles to fit into the new world. The supporting cast too is developed enough for each character to have an individual character, and McKeever's dialogue always hits the point. There is a very good dynamic between Rikki and her "brother" which adds some humour and depth to the series. The art too fits the style well, being cartoony and full of energy.
However, the problem with this mini-series is the plot. In four issues, McKeever manages to actually create a plot, which is a big achievement, and it's reasonably well executed. There are no huge holes or feeling that it's been rushed. The problem is, that the plot seems like something out of a bad made-for-TV film. The plot twists are predictable, the villains predictable, and the overall story is dull. With four issues, you can't expect an epic, but it's very juvenile and basic. This is my personal opinion on it, and it may be slightly more enjoyable for some. I've always found McKeever's plots to be lacking, and found the ones which are nearly all character driven (Mary Jane) to be his best. The plot is no worse or better than any other of his works.
The mini-series is a fun read with memorable character moments, but the plot is poor. It is worth a read for the reinvented character of Nomad and the art. Where McKeever typically succeeds, he doesn't fail to impress the reader, but he still has his usual strengths and faults.
As I read through the other reviews on this comic I noticed that they aren't particularly charitable, citing lackluster plot, the pedigree of the creative team, and the labyrinthine nature of the comics medium itself.
Perhaps it's simply a mark of just how B-A-D BAD most Marvel comics have gotten in recent years, but I thoroughly enjoyed this offering. It was an astonishing breath of fresh air to read this comic given the general state of Marvel comics today (and it's a little sad and ironic that this breath of fresh air had to come from an 8 year old book). It's a short but sweet tale of a girl hero trying to find herself in the world, connect with a version of her family that isn't the one she's familiar with, and take down a villainous organization with an insidious plot to mind control the youth of America. It's not particularly mind blowing or revolutionary, but it's good.
What strikes me most, though, is the political position the comic takes. This is treading into some dicey water here on the internet (mama always said not to talk religion or politics in a public forum but I DIDN'T LISTEN), but readers of current day Marvel comics are all-too-used to being abused by the very creative teams of the comics they read through the characters they want so desperately to love. Marvel Comics has been sucked down the hole of anarcho/socialist progressive extreme-left politics, abandoning the classically liberal center-left ones they used to hold. As such, far too many comic books today involve characters being twisted into parodies of themselves to suit some kind of agenda or have the characters directly reference "angry idiot manchildren on the internet" or things like that. You find it in nearly every book you read these days from Iceman to She Hulk to Squirrel Girl to Captain America to their 'all new' Wolverines and Iron Mans. There's a lot more to this problem that you can look up on youtube if you're interested (and it IS best to look it up on youtube, btw. Most 'official comic publications' are in the pocket of the comic companies and will print whatever the comic companies demand.) but what was particularly cathartic to me in this day and age was how this 8 year old book completely flew in the face of all of those artificially injected politics of the current day.
In this story, though, the position that the mind controlled students take up is an eerily familiar one to those that follow current political trends, shouting down and ostracizing any who don't conform to their views and march into line. They follow a charismatic leader, marching to his honeyed words like sheep, and making the people around them who don't become a part of the ingroup into the 'other,' eventually calling them (in a panel that was frighteningly reflective of current day leftist tactics) "fascists," when all they do is fail to conform to their new worldview, before finally breaking out in a humongous street riot that's hugely reminiscent of the current day "Antifa."
And the delightful thing is that this comic is all told through the eyes of a strong, female character... exactly the sort of thing current day Marvel accuses us fans of hating. Rikki is fun, has a decent supporting cast, there's cameos from Black Widow and Falcon that are nice, and the whole thing ties up in a very satisfying manner. Nothing mind blowing, but for the asking price, I'd definitely say it's worth it. And I'm sad that Rikki Barnes' Nomad doesn't seem to have appeared in much of anything else since this. Not that I've seen anyway. I'm going to have to look her up (though sadly, given the previously established state of Marvel comics, if she IS still around, she's probably been twisted into something unrecognizable).
There's also a brilliant moment in the book where Rikki Barnes reminisces on how she fought her own brother in her original world after her brother joined a "Neo-Nazi Skinhead movement" and tried to kill her by strapping her to a missile. When her brother's counterpart in the 616 universe (who she's been trying to connect with throughout the story) gets swept up in the Antifa-esque mind control, she remarks on how much she reminds him of her brother from her original universe. Not only does Rikki's clear opposition to Nazism immediately destroy any accusations that Rikki, this comic, or this comic's readers may be "alt-right nazi fascists," but it also does a delightfully great deal to highlight just how fascistic and twisted and Nazi-like the inappropriately named "Antifa" actually is.
I admit, I probably wouldn't enjoy this book quite so much if Marvel Comics weren't currently firmly lodged in an ideological gutter. As I said, it's a very simple story. It doesn't have many twists and turns or anything particularly mindblowing or revolutionary to it, save for what it's gained in hindsight. It's a story that, if circumstances were different, probably wouldn't be delighting me to this extent.
But it's still a very decent story in its own right, and one that I think should be read and spread in this day and age as a message to Marvel and an example of a strong, realistic female character done right. Perhaps when Marvel corrects course and stops persecuting its own fans and dragging its own properties through the gutter (assuming they ever do), I won't think quite as highly of this book... but I know that I'll remember it for how much I loved it today.
Nomad is a teen girl from another Earth. On said other Earth, she was Captain America's side-kick. Her name is Rikki Barnes, see? How Rikki ended up on our own Earth I don't know. But we see her trying to get by, studying as a teen would do, working nights to earn a living and seeking to meet this Earth's Cap', though she knows this Cap is not the real Cap but his former side-kick (are you following me?). When things go south at her college, with the Secret Empire's attempt at crowd control, she gets into action but has to pay a high price. With competent drawings but a rather pedestrian story of manipulation, this little book is a bit of a let-down. You will not miss anything if you do not buy it!
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