The THUNDER Agents from Tower Comics were a nifty blast of quality and not least among their number was NoMan. NoMan captures the imagination in a host of ways. He is the invisible agent thanks to the technology of the cloak he wears. But beyond that which makes him like his fellow agents Dynamo, Menthor and Lightning, NoMan is different because he's only technically human.
The fact that NoMan is actually Anthony Dunn, or more properly the consciousness of Dunn an old man which can move between myriad android bodies which give him great vitality and strength. When one body falls, there's another to shift to and NoMan lives again. Great high concept!
There were a bevy of android characters around at the time with Red Tornado at DC and Vision at Marvel. But of the lot, it's NoMan who most captures my fancy.
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I've got that first issue of NoMan, but not the J.C. Comics ish with the Ditko cover (got #1 though). I'd like to see a new series of NoMan drawn by Jerry Ordway. I was never quite sure if it was Dunn's actual consciousness which inhabited the android bodies, or just a 'recording' of it, meaning that he wasn't the real Dr. Dunn, but just an 'echo'. His origin can be read either way I think.
ReplyDeleteGood observation. The idea of an old man gaining immortality was a nifty one, even if that meant the definition of human was stretched.
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