When the heroes sacrificed themselves to stop Onslaught, Franklin Richards created the new world of Counter-Earth where they reincarnated onto. Among the denizens of this new world was Rikki Barnes who would eventually fight alongside Captain America as the Heroes Reborn version of Bucky. However, Onsalught returned and attempted to conquer reality. During the battle Rikki rammed a Fantasticar into Onslaught, pushing the both of them into the Negative Zone and seemingly killing her. Only she found herself awake and alive, just not in her own world but in the main Marvel Universe, a world alien to her where she had nothing and had never existed.Today is Nomad: Girl Without a World #1-4 plus some backups from Captain America #602-605.Previous >>154790090
Also, I'm pretty sure this is McKeever's return to Marvel after his Teen Titans run.
Mad Dog was originally Buzz Baxter, the boyfriend turned husband of Patsy Walker back when she was a generic humor/romance comic lead before she was repurposed as a superhero. He'd eventually get transformed into a monstrous form and was killed in Spencer's ASM run during Hunted.
Issue 2
>>154829136>pictures of Nomadbliss
>>154829547Shame what Jeremy Whitley did to her.
>>154829136Sexy Rikki Barnes.Crashed into 616 long before Spider-Gwen did
So I guess getting rejected by smelly homeless tomboys turns you into a skinhead.
>>154829570I didn't hate itit's not like she was ever going to get with Steve or Anya, and honestly, Toro felt like a weird Beauty is into the Beast from like minute one of entering his castle kind of choice
>>154829733I really want to say this page happened before there was so much incest-themed porn? but now obviously if she'd been honest with him he'd be even more into her
>>154829782There's really nothing stopping her from ever meeting Anya again and it's not like Anya's ever had any kind of love interest anyway beyond the boy from her series that showed up maybe three times and was forgotten about after a few issues. Versus the stuff with her friend, her gushing over her field hockey teammate and then the Rikki stuff. I hate to be one of Those People but Anya being gay would be one of those "Yeah, sure" type of things.Might as well just pull the trigger on them but nobody wants to use Rikki and Anya's spent like 10 years being involved almost exclusively in Spider-Verse nonsense.
No one reading this shit
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Anthony_Power_(Earth-616)
Issue 4
>>154829860Anya is currently dating Spider-Punk.Don’t you keep up with the spider-verse comics?
>>154829538>Runaways>blind patriotismWe talking about the same guys, pal?
>>154830303No and neither does anyone else.
>>154830313Anyone who's against him is a patriotic ultra-nationalist as far as he cares.
I really enjoyed these comics when they were coming out. Too bad they kinda got stuck in limbo once it ended
>>154830346I think it was mostly Young Allies bombing. Rikki was a pretty regularly character for two or three years before she was killed but I don't know if that was always the intended story for her or if Young Allies failing made editorial decide to get rid of her. One of the Onlsaught Unleashed covers is repurposed from a canceled Young Allies issue.
>>154830323You should. As Anya has been in Spider-Versity currently.
For about a year, Nomad backups ran in Captain America so I'll start posting these too. I didn't bother with the covers though. I figure I'll post these as backups for some of the other stories too.Anyway, Captain America #602.>>154830443I'm basically staying away from Spider books right now. The books suck and the threads have the Polish retard. I tried Spider-Girl but tapped out by issue 4 when it was clear the writer didn't really have any idea what she was doing and seemingly hadn't even bothered trying to make it consistent with the handful of previous appearances she'd had.
>>154829733>So I guess getting rejected by smelly homeless tomboys turns you into a skinhead.I get it, John.
Captain America #603
>>154829570I like Rikki being the token bisexual female of Team Cap.
Captain America #604
Captain America #605
Hey remember Lyn? Anya's best friend from her ongoing and Amazing Fantasy story? Because nobody else does.
Nothing really comes from this because I think this is the last time Professor Power's ever seen. I would guess that this Secret Empire stuff was intended to continue in Young Allies but it got cancelled so it never did. I guess short of asking McKeever who knows though.
That's all for today. Next time it's Avengers: The Initiative #28-31 plus backups from Captain America #606-607.
>>154830303why not just shorten it to Spunk? not very punk having a full name
>>154829136I love how a WW1 pilot's uniform is an instant superhero outfit. They really were weird looking.
>>154830648you know how sometimes when Daredevil is in crowd scenes, just for a giggle they draw him facing the wrong way? it'd be nice if Rikki was always giving dagger stares to Sharon Carter whenever they're in crowds togetherbut then Rikki and Sharon would have to actually be appearing in books
>>154830942thanks OP
>>154831651What’s up with Sharon and every time another woman enters Team Cap?Remember how she was with Jet Zola.
>>154831686Sharon seems weird in that she's basically Steve's designated love interest who nobody (readers and writers) actually likes or wants around yet for whatever reason they won't just get rid of the character.
>>154831749none of the other SHIELD people are memorable except Fury (take your pick) and maybe Dugan which is mostly the hatnobody really goes "hey let's get the Contessa back for a run" or "you know what'd really be great? if Steve's SHIELD liaison was Clay Quatermain"plus yeah it's the love interest thing, now that Sharon has finally taken over from Peggy (which... the 70s were not the finest time for Steve), but they're like one of those couples who got a dog and a lease that allows dogs and they're staying together for the sake of the dog, even though the dog reeksbut what's the alternative? Jessica Drew, Daisy Johnson, Maria Hill, Natasha Romanov, Mockingbird, Diamondback (alright not SHIELD but), Abigail Brand? take out the ones who are super bad ideas and you're left with a couple of women he has no particular chemistry or history withSharon default
>>154832481>but what's the alternative? Jessica Drew, Daisy Johnson, Maria Hill, Natasha Romanov, Mockingbird, Diamondback (alright not SHIELD but), Abigail Brand?Unironically Emma Frost
I think Zdarsky said he's got plans for Sharon and Steve as a couple
>>154832481Diamondback is really the only one. The problem is that the SHIELD chicks are boring. Diamondback being the ex-villain with a shady past (stripping and such) gives her an instantly better dichotomy with the straitlaced Cap.Anyway, Rikki needs to meet Anya again. No Spider-Verse shit, no Spider-Punk nonsense. Just put them on a new iteration of the New Warriors or something.
Storytimes are cancer
>>154829673>>154829685Pretty much the only thing I remember about this, which I don't hold against it, by the way. But still.
>>154832603New Warriors is a dead franchise anon.Even Justice has joined the X-Men now.
>>154829203ASS
>>154829673>>154829685Knew that was coming.
>>154829733Saw this coming too.
>>154830350>here lies john>he never scored with the alternate universe version of his sister
Where is Rikki these days? What's she up to?
>>154834786She teamed up with the Future Foundation and Power Pack and realized she liked girls.
>>154834801Didn't work out.
>>154834786Last time she showed up was cameoing in Champions around the time of the failed Outlawed story when every teen or young adult hero was cameoing in that book.
I remember this comic having a pretty good hypno scene And it sure does.
>>154832567Who cares what he says.
>>154836896Well he's Marvel's top dog writer now which really says a lot about where things are at.
>>154833624No team title is truly dead except for Exiles.
I liked the character until Jeremy Whitley- who seems to have a preoccupation with having underage girls being horny with and fucking each other and said some stuff in tweets about girls' tummies that would make me quite suspicious- did what he does with all of the girl characters he writes. I mean really. It's all he does in his comics.
>>154839793Now now, Rikki was gay which is a difference from his usual shtick of making them asexual.
Continuing today with Avengers: The Initiative #28-31 plus backups from Captain America #606-607.
>>154840922>this man is your friend>he fights for self respect
>>154840922Time for best boy!
Boomerang has really come a long way hasn't he?
I really wish Komodo would actually get used nowadays.
Issue 29
Constrictor and Diamondback have their priorities straight.
Issue 30
>>154840949All it takes is one writer that really likes the character and they can be a fan favorite overnight.A real cinderella story.
Issue 31
Le Tasky memeface
This is setting up Avengers Academy which starts the next month after Initiative ends. But it'll be a while before we get to it.
>>154840974Seriously Norman should have been perma-dead after the end of Dark Reign not back to a Spiderman villain and certainly not as one of Spiderman's friends (and I say this as someone who kinda likes his face turn, dude should be fucking dead after this shit)
>>154842374Well thanks to Tokon there's no chance of him dying any time soon. They'll just backslide on the sinless thing, make him a bad guy again and it'll be back to Goblin shenanigans and black comedy about throwing girls off bridges while he basically gets away with everything like Marvel's Joker.
>>154840999>you can't just declare secession!
And now the Nomad backups.Captain America #606
>>154841589>everyone thinks they can focus on their soap opera dramas until suddenly the Nightmare Demons start falling out of the sky
Captain America #607
>>154842162Funny to see this come up after the previous discussion about who should get to take Cap's Freedom Stick.
>>154842257>>154842271Rereading these comics, what I always liked about them was how this insane era allowed these smaller characters an opportunity to just kind of be Characters for once. Not redemptions, not even more complicated, but a chance to really see what kind of people they are and feel it emotionally.
That's it for today. I'll save the rest of the backups for when I do Young Allies since it's two more stories in total. Next time will finish off the Initiative with Avengers: The Initiative #32-35.
>>154841500Fuck Marvel for ruining Constrictor.In general i wish they put some effort on editors or whoevers job is to keep track if a character is good or evil.
>>154843035The best thing to do is to just soft decanonize that mini. It was garbage, nobody bought it and will never be referenced again so might as well just Constrictor being a rich racist CEO never happened.
>>154843166>>154843035he's ex-SHIELD, it was clearly a rogue LMD activated automatically when he died
>>154843166>>154843344Yes this is now a fact. Real Frank is still resting in peace after spending his final months with Diamondback and his daughter who he reconciled with.
>>154834801>>154834804Every time a character is paired with a PP member is a sign of a future failed romance
>>154843937When has this happened for any member that's not Lightslut?
