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Of course, you have to know who Leopold Zola/Ian Rogers is for this to make sense, and the only real way for you to know that is to read the Captain America run that starts with Castaway in Dimension Z.   Actually, even reading the first two volumes - that story arc - will give you a good enough idea for this to make sense. 

When Nomad is plunged into another world, a world where Hydra claims New York - and claims to have founded New York, and perhaps even did found New York - he's stunned at the results.   Hydra is a Marvel splinter group of the Nazis, and I don't particularly like them, or reading about them.  I've enjoyed so many of the Battleworld/Warzones miniseries, however, that I figured I'd give this a shot.   It worked out beautifully. 

One of the problems I have is humanizing of Hydra agents.   Fuck that noise.   They're part of a splinter group of Nazis.   And it's a comic book.  I just want to see someone kick some Nazi ass.   Check on this, by the way.  And Remender portrays Hydra as evil, with no attempt to rationalize why someone would join with them.   There is the obvious survival instinct since Hydra controls New York, but there is no attempt at portraying Hydra agents as complex human beings. 

No, they are Nazi assholes there to get beat down by Nomad.   Good.  

And it also makes Nomad think: he is Zola's son, raised by Captain America.   But what would his life had been if he'd followed his biological father?   Well, the ending of this issue makes it clear that Nomad is a stranger in a  strange land, that may not be so strange after all.   It may just be his original destiny fulfilled. 

Ah, Battleworld, with all your different versions of people.  You make all things possible.   I may just love you for that one thing.