![]() ![]() (This page also serves as a tidy follow-up to Captain America #179, when Hawkeye convinced Steve to take up costumed adventuring again, only to raise doubts himself about his own future with the Avengers.) This may be another example of Steve’s quick temper and lack of self-restraint as Nomad compared to Cap that we saw earlier, but it still seems odd… especially in light of his encounter with his old colleagues in Avengers #131, where he reports that his first outing as Nomad went swimmingly! And the security personnel and Nomad do not exactly hit it off. Nomad and Namor find Krang, Viper, and the rest of the crew at a Roxxon drilling rig near Atlantis, and fight until a helicopter full of Roxxon security show up, causing Viper to flee with the Serpent Crown and leaving Krang to fall to Nomad. (And Sam recognizes a certain “connection” between Gabe and Peggy, wink wink, nudge nudge.) Happily for her, Peggy recognizes immediately that it’s not her Cap. Nomad and Namor leave to find Krang, who has kidnapped the president of Roxxon Oil, so we turn to the Falcon and… a new Captain America?īefore Sam has a chance to talk to Roscoe more, someone with a definite interest in the return of Captain America shows up. (Yes, those “Secret Empire things” have a tendency to do that.) Namor and Nomad-I think David Letterman could have fun with that-do battle, of course, and Steve lets slip who he really is.Īctually, Namor didn’t guess it, and Krang has contacted the Serpent Squad (as of the last page of the last issue), but otherwise accurate.Īfter Nomad and Namor chat-with the latter decidedly uninterested in the former’s identity issues-we see Nomad try to call S.H.I.E.L.D., amidst all the drama between them. ![]() More important is Krang, a longtime rival of Namor, who has joined with Viper’s Serpent Squad and has brought them the “seven-headed Serpent Crown of lost Lemuria,” a weapon of great power that goes on to appear in many Marvel titles, including Avengers (beginning with issue #141). No one knows except the people in the movie theater fight in the last issue, that is… but no matter. His reverie continues as an old “friend” appears… Wise words, as important today as they were in Lincoln’s day, and very indicative of Steve Rogers’ predicament, feeling dedicated to the founding principles of his country as the same time he feels separated from its current government. ![]() Oddly, the opening splash page to issue #181 leads with my friends’ nickname for me before a lengthy quote from President Abraham Lincoln, in an homage (intentional or not) to Mr. These two issues of Captain America-and one page from Avengers #131-show Steve Rogers adapting to his newly chosen role as Nomad, “Man without a Country” as the storyline with Viper and the new Serpent Squad continues, young Roscoe steps into some very big shoes, and a major foe returns. ![]()
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