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colonel_green (colonel_green) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-14 15:37:00

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char: bucky/nomad/rikki barnes, char: falcon/sam wilson, creator: dave baldeon, creator: sean mckeever, publisher: marvel comics

The new Nomad (now with a new outfit)

Four scans from Nomad: Girl Without A World #2.

Continuing Rikki's attempts to fit in on our world, she's hanging out with our world's version of her brother John, and finally gets around to asking something that's been on her mind for a while:

Ouch (and also, Bucky killed "their" dad, or, rather, the Winter Soldier did; awkward).

I'm extremely confused by this aspect. I was under the impression that Rikki was Bucky's AU granddaughter, but if her family exists in our world I'm not sure how that could work.

Anyway, Flag-Smasher interrupts this moment by detonating a bomb outside that injures John - Rikki heads off to fight him. He almost gets way, but for...

Sam, unlike Natasha apparently, knows how to not be a douche.

I like the new costume for Rikki, too; though, weirdly, on the covers it's drawn like her pants are white, but here they're blue.

We now return to Rikki's awkward relationship with John, which, as I totally called last month, gets the awkward cranked up to eleven:

Westermarck Effect, Rikki; seriously.

John gets the "you're like a brother" line, but since she doesn't include the "you literally are my brother" part, there's no mitigating that particular kick to the nuts.

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	mullon 2009-10-14 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	And she probably looks like his actual sister so... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-10-14 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	Well, since 616-Rikki died while being born, that wouldn't mean anything to him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mullon 2009-10-14 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	You mean twins don't remember what the other one looks like from the moment they're born? Star Wars lied to me again! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	teekoness 2009-10-15 04:33 am UTC (link)
	But Luke and Leia were magical Force twins! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-10-14 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	GSA, anyone? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pyrotwilight 2009-10-14 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	I bwa-ha-ha'ed. (Reply to this)

	darkblade 2009-10-14 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	How did she not see that coming? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-10-14 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	Genre blind. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	deleonjh 2009-10-14 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, that was bugging me through the first issue, didn't she realize that whenever they were talking he was actually picturing her naked? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	stolisomancer 2009-10-14 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	She may be a superhero, but she's still a seventeen-year-old girl. She doesn't have the life experience to know what a relatively normal guy her age is thinking. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	strannik01 2009-10-14 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	That and she still thought of him as an alternate version of her brother first and foremost. The idea that he might see her as, well, a girl, probably didn't occur to her. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	greenmask 2009-10-15 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	What, they don't have tv in her reality? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stolisomancer 2009-10-15 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	She goes to high school, has a part-time job, and is a full-time superhero. She also grew up on Counter-Earth. Also, as strannik01 says, she looks at him as her brother and not as a guy. Ignoring all of that, this is a cliche for a reason. Your friends often occupy an emotional blind spot that can prevent you from perceiving attraction. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	auggie18 2009-10-14 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	Little disappointed. I liked her old costume. This is some pretty cute art, though. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	strannik01 2009-10-14 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	Well, Marvel needed an excuse to renew the Nomad trademark one way or another. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	buttler 2009-10-14 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know whether to squee that she's wearing a version of Steve's Nomad suit of harrumph that her fashion sense would be more Liefeldy. I think I'm going to go with the squeeing. (Reply to this)

	joysweeper 2009-10-15 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Aw, I liked the Bucky outfit. The Nomad one does look pretty good on her, though. The goggles are a nice touch. Good update on Steve's rather silly look. Though the word "Nomad", for me, will always have associations with Darca Nyl. Not that that's a bad thing. (Reply to this)

	thandrak 2009-10-15 03:27 am UTC (link)
	Using Falcon there is important. Remember how _he_ got his costume and name... from the Red Skull. (Reply to this)

	wingsonwater 2009-10-15 10:02 am UTC (link)
	sigh So it's all gone? And Hallie/Jolt was still on Counter-Earth? Dammit. :( (Reply to this)

	kingrockwell 2009-10-15 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	I was afraid that would happen with John. :( (Reply to this)

	schmevil 2009-10-18 03:14 pm UTC (link)
	Rikki is awesome. (Reply to this)