The new Nomad (now with a new outfit)

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

And she probably looks like his actual sister so...

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

Well, since 616-Rikki died while being born, that wouldn't mean anything to him.

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

You mean twins don't remember what the other one looks like from the moment they're born? Star Wars lied to me again!

[teekoness.insanejournal.com]

But Luke and Leia were magical Force twins!

[halloweenjack.insanejournal.com]

GSA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction), anyone?

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

I bwa-ha-ha'ed.

[darkblade.insanejournal.com]

How did she not see that coming?

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Genre blind.

[deleonjh.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, that was bugging me through the first issue, didn't she realize that whenever they were talking he was actually picturing her naked?

[stolisomancer.insanejournal.com]

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.

[strannik01.insanejournal.com]

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.

[greenmask.insanejournal.com]

What, they don't have tv in her reality?

[stolisomancer.insanejournal.com]

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.

[auggie18.insanejournal.com]

Little disappointed. I liked her old costume.

This is some pretty cute art, though.

[strannik01.insanejournal.com]

Well, Marvel needed an excuse to renew the Nomad trademark one way or another.

[buttler.insanejournal.com]

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.

[joysweeper.insanejournal.com]

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 (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodFeelsGood). Not that that's a bad thing.

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

Using Falcon there is important. Remember how _he_ got his costume and name... from the Red Skull.

[wingsonwater.insanejournal.com]

*sigh* So it's all gone? And Hallie/Jolt was still on Counter-Earth? Dammit. :(

[kingrockwell]

I was afraid that would happen with John. :(

[schmevil.insanejournal.com]

Rikki is awesome.