So Nomad, Captain America’s trusty sidekick from the 80’s, sure got involved fighting some losers in his time! Before he went up against The Slug who i profiled earlier he faced this Douche Bag named “MADCAP” in Captain America #307 and then again in issue #309. I am not sure if Madcap was supposed to be Marvel’s version of the Joker or what but what i do know is this idiot needed to get his ass kicked to the moon in a very bad way! This guys had probably the lamest costume of the 80’s and carried around a squirt gun that shot out bubbles that would make you go “mad”.

Yes once again we see Nomad who’s a pretty rad guy, i mean in issue #307 he’s jobless, sleeping on Captain America’s couch ’til noon, not cleaning up after himself and getting yelled at by Cap’s then girlfriend Bernie for being a slacker. Might i mention too Cap must’ve been down on his luck financially too cuz his apartment sucks!! Anyway Nomad wisens up and lands a job at the local Brooklyn Grocery store as bagger and beleive me Nomad is on top of his game there too. He even admits he’s pretty into the whole bag boy thing. Probably bacause on his first shift he’s already trying to score with the cashier “Carmela”. Too bad in the middle of his “schtick” some crazy herd of people hurl a rock through the window of the supermarket interupting his shift and forcing him to check out the comotion abandoning his new job and donning the Nomad garb.

That’s when he runs into good ol’ MADCAP whose out on the town squirtin’ cops with his bubble gun. One cop points his gun at him, gets in the way of his “bubbles” and says “Stop or I’ll…SHOOBY DOOBY DOO DA DA DA DA DA..”, he shoots the owner of a costume shop and he says “”No–don’t shoot, I’ll give you any–any–ha ha haa, i feel so ha ha ha–strange! Bock bock bock! Look at me i’m a chicken! A big fat stuffer special!” another street civilian shouts “I’ve got ants in my pants but i like it! i like it!” and finally a woman and her baby singing “Boom ba ba boom ba ba boom dada!”. Mapcap just makes you downright silly and one of his mottos is “Randomness rules!–whee!”.

Well Nomad tries to fight this loser but Madcap is simply unaffected by pain and has his jaw dislocated by a left hook. Then comes the best part-Madcap shoots him with his bubble gun and Nomad goes nuts. Feeling like he can “do anything without a care in the world!” and then continues to make an ass out of himself all through the streets of New York. Apparently Nomad begins to think he is Captain America and loses his damn mind saying “I’ve gone mad! Mad as a hatter! mad as a capper! cap as a madder! does cap matter? no i’m mad! no i’m Cap!” Anyway you get the picture basically he squirts you with a gun that makes you hallucinate and have a totally rad night-which makes me take back all the nasty things i said about him earlier and wonder why everyone wanted to beat on Madcap?

That “dramatic look back at the Invaders of World War 2” shown on the cover below is only ONE damn panel in the whole comic book! LAME!