Look! A map! It’s like we’re back in the 1980s!
I love when comics have maps and diagrams. It’s super-geekery. But sadly, the above is the best part of this comic, which starts weak never really gets strong.
We start with Nomad on the run, wanted for killing a druglord. To survive on the lam, he’s doing A-Team kinds of work, allowing people to hire him to get rid of bad guys who are blackmailing or strong-arming them.
And there’s a baby version of Bucky. Yes, she actually wears a Bucky mask. She’s adopted, her name is Julia Winter, and we’ll not see her again once Bucky Barnes stops wearing the Nomad costume and this book is cancelled.
Frankly, that’s a little surprising. There was a lot they could have done with a little girl raised by Bucky-on-the-lam. Another example of how this concept never really gets going.
Issue #1 takes place in Seattle where he stops some local organized criminals. Then he moves to the wilderness and stops illegal hunters. And he meets Warlord.
Remember DC’s Warlord by Mike Grell? Nice cameo. For those of you who missed that comic…
..It was a great comic.
Anyway, Nomad fights a karate guy called Giscard Epurer
Agent Gyrich is tracking Nomad’s movements, and in issue #3 we the first battle with the “government task force” hunting Nomad. Like I said, it’s like the A-Team.
The task force is USAgent, a woman we won’t see much in this comic and won’t see at all in any other comic, and Jack Norriss, who used to chill with The Defenders.
At this point, Nomad gets his “gang,” a bunch of side characters with names like Legs and Pretty Boy.
This is a comic for completists only.