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ashez2ashes (ashez2ashes) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-19 20:30:00

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creator: david baldeon, creator: sean mckeever, publisher: marvel comics

Nomad: Girl Without a World #1 by... Marvel?
Was looking through upcoming series and came across this preview from Marvel. And by jove does it actually look... interesting.

By Davide Baldeon, Sean McKeever
Release Date: 9/9/2009
Cover Price: $3.99
Previews Code: JUL090550

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!

This looks... actually pretty good. Her outfit covers everything. No boob window, no tentacles, no come hither stare... And she gets totally awesome goggles! I won't know for sure about the art until I see the inside but... well that's a snazzy cover.

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	neuhallidae 2009-07-20 12:35 am UTC (link)
	I love her costume. Love her costume. It's like somewhere between WWII and space opera. Awesome. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bariman1987 2009-07-20 01:41 am UTC (link)
	I love it too! Something about the jacket does it for me. And the goggles, of course. I have a thing for goggles. Whatcha bet they actually do something? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	darklorelei 2009-07-20 01:59 am UTC (link)
	Me too. My goggle fetish is so shameless. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	janegray 2009-07-20 03:28 pm UTC (link)
	Motto ^^ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tacobob 2009-07-20 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Don't worry kids! She'll be running around in a costume that's smaller than those goggles in no time! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stig 2009-07-20 05:53 am UTC (link)
	As soon as they finish the new Origin... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

comicoz
2009-07-20 02:57 pm UTC (link)

*hops into time machine*

Coming in Nomad #13: See how Rikki moved from her bikini model days to being horribly scarred, resulting her having to wear the full-body covering suit of today. Can the scarring be helped and allow her to wear normal clothing again? Reed Richards seems to think so...

Because the only reason females are fully covered in comics is because they are horribly scarred, right?

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	stig 2009-07-20 04:44 pm UTC (link)
	See also: Marvel Boy. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thanekos 2009-07-20 12:40 am UTC (link)
	I can never think of the Secret Empire without that thread somewhere that postulated what the sliding timescale would mean for the identity of the Empire's second Number One. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	shanejayell 2009-07-20 12:45 am UTC (link)
	Bush? lol (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-07-20 01:16 am UTC (link)
	Currently (with the MU about 15 years along, and the Secret Empire story happening in the mid-1970s, publication-time), it would probably have been during the Clinton era. Of course, given how much that story would totally mess up history, I can't recall that aspect ever being mentioned since. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cricharddavies 2009-07-21 09:08 pm UTC (link)
	It was mentioned in Busiek's Avengers Forever, though who it was clearly supposed to be wasn't. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-07-20 01:11 am UTC (link)
	So, what ever happened to the Biker Nomad with the little kid ? Is he dead(please say yes)? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mechanicaljewel 2009-07-20 01:12 am UTC (link)
	Pretty sure the Winter Soldier killed him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	snapper52 2009-07-20 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	Yup, Brubaker killed him off pretty early in his run on Cap. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-07-20 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Plus revealing that he was already dying, so even if Winter Soldier hadn't killed him, he'd have been dead in months anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jarodrussell 2009-07-20 01:29 am UTC (link)
	Sean McKeever? Ha, ha, ha, no. No, no, no. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	statham1986 2009-07-20 09:10 am UTC (link)
	Actually, based on his Marvel work, McKeever's got a pretty good chance of knocking this one out of the park, I think. Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane and Sentinel were fantastic. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kagome654 2009-07-21 01:54 am UTC (link)
	And Gravity! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	faile_neume 2009-07-20 02:52 am UTC (link)
	Oh my! The goggles! That jacket! NOM (Reply to this)

	queenrikki 2009-07-20 03:50 am UTC (link)
	I think I would get this just for the costume alone. How awesome is it? (though I could never knock boob windows, I loved them unabashedly). Also, I like Sean Mckeever (though I don't know the other guy). (Reply to this)

	akodo_rokku 2009-07-20 07:12 am UTC (link)
	So McKeever's exclusive contract with DC is over, then. Not shocking. This looks pretty cool except for his name being on it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kusonaga 2009-07-20 07:49 am UTC (link)
	What's wrong with McKeever? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

wizardru
2009-07-20 12:16 pm UTC (link)

McKeever won points for his work on Spiderman Loves Mary Jane...and then subsequently lost a lot of them with some folks for his work at DC, particularly with his work on Birds of Prey and Teen Titans. While I'm not really all that familiar with his tenure, many folks were quite vocal about their feeling that his take on the characters was just plain wrong (especially after following Gail Simone's run on Birds of Prey, which was considered pretty strong). A lot of people said they felt that he totally misunderstood some of the characters.

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snowglare
2009-07-20 01:33 pm UTC (link)

I initially thought folks here were too quick to tear apart his BoP work. I had only read his Marvel stuff, which was all good to great, so I was prepared to give him every possible chance. Babs breaking Misfit's leg could be explained. The team screwing up a mission so badly that thousands died had to be a fakeout.

For me, the honeymoon ended in his third issue, when it was heavily implied that Lady Blackhawk was raped in the Golden Age. That and Huntress inexplicably acting like a nervous rookie. When someone posted the original Golden Age stories McKeever had retconned random rape into, their innocence and lack of innuendo made it more glaring how ill-advised that bit of modernizing was.

She couldn't just be mind controlled. No. Supervillains are evil, so of course he bewitched her into loving him and took full advantage. It's right out of the school of Everyone Needs a Tragic Past writing, because being out of her own time by a good few decades and losing all her friends to old age isn't shocking enough.

The capper was when scans from his fifth and final issue were posted, and there was no mention of the disaster from his first issue being a magical illusion or somesuch. Unless I missed it, all those people really died and the Birds came off looking utterly incompetent. It was disappointing to learn I'd been so wrong.

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akodo_rokku
2009-07-20 07:21 pm UTC (link)

All his work at DC has been sub par. Don't get me wrong, I liked his Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane run a lot. But DC put him on traditional superhero books, and there he has not shone. His Birds of Prey run was mediocre at best, his Teen Titans run has been disappointing, oh, and lets not forget that he worked on Countdown.

Maybe on Nomad he can get his groove back, but his track record over the last few years has lead me to think that his SM<3MJ work was a fluke.

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	kagome654 2009-07-21 01:54 am UTC (link)
	What about Gravity? Give him a young hero with little canon and I bet he can shine. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	akodo_rokku 2009-07-21 02:09 am UTC (link)
	Huh. I thought Dwayne McDuffie wrote Gravity. Okay yeah, he gets points for that too. (Reply to this) (Parent)

Interior art

snowglare
2009-07-20 01:15 pm UTC (link)

"I won't know for sure about the art until I see the inside"

Baldeon's not the greatest penciler, but he doesn't tend toward cheesecake if that's your concern. He did fill-in work on Blue Beetle that fit the tone of the book. He should be the same as ever here, which is far from bad.

Also, he has a Deviantart page http://baldeon.deviantart.com/gallery/

Don't know what to expect of McKeever, though. I liked everything he did at Marvel, but nothing he did at DC, and the latter was more recent. The solicit text raises no red flags, but who knows?

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	ex_menagerie993 2009-07-20 03:50 pm UTC (link)
	Wonderful cover, and I really like the title "girl without a world". I love it far too much. (Reply to this)

	halloweenjack 2009-07-20 05:21 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, Marvel, why the flippity-FUCK* can't I quit you?* (Reply to this)

	psychop_rex 2009-07-21 03:43 am UTC (link)
	So this is the 'Heros Reborn' Counter-Earth version of Bucky, right? This should be interesting - I wonder if the High Evolutionary will get involved? (Reply to this)

	salamangkiero 2009-07-22 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	I like this. It's got noir, Blackhawks and Tank Girl rolled in with history from Captain America. (Reply to this)