Nightwing #149

I agree about the Two-Face characterization. This was a new way to portray him to me, and I really liked it. Plus Tomasi got me to care about Carol as a character, and I felt like I was feeling Nightwing's pain over her death. Tomasi is becoming the definitive Nightwing writer in my book.

"I think it's been established that comic book readers are smart enough to follow a plot and the emotions behind it without having their hands held the entire way." This doesn't track very well with comments on G-Mo's Batman. Wait, I take that back--people aren't complaining that Morrison doesn't hold their hand the _entire_ way, they're maybe complaining that he doesn't hold their hand enough or even at all.

 I think this is an interesting issue, and I personally can't stand how much hand-holding Tomasi does, in Nightwing and in Green Lantern Corps. (This maybe isn't the right place to say, but I thought the recent Black Mercy arc was, I don't know, over-choreographed.)

@flaggthecat -- Well sure, writers don't need to hold our hands & lead us through the tale, like you say Tomasi does, but they also don't need to put a bag over our heads, beat us repeatadly with a lead pipe & expect us to make it through a hedge maze like some would say G-Mo does. :P 

Sorry, let's not make every book review about G-Mo ... lol.

@chewie -- As much as I'm digging Tomasi's run, I think Chuck Dixon is still the definitive Nightwing scribe. Tomasi has only written about 10 issues? Dixon was on the book from #1 through about #70.

@WadeWilson-- I missed Dixon's run, I started reading at the tail end of Grayson. I have picked up some of the trades from Dixon, and liked them. I think I need the whole run to make a fair evaluation though, because he has so many long term plot points that I don't have the end to. That's why as of now I put Tomasi over Dixon.

I don't know if I'd say Tomasi is the best Nightwing writer ever yet. Actually, I'll say that he's probably third right now, but the potential for him to become the top writer is definitely there. This goes for his GLC run too, but if he can cut back on the exposition, I think he could tell some great stories.

@lmiller- who do you think is #1 and 2 on the list of Nightwing writers?

I would say Marv Wolfman is #1 and Chuck Dixon is #2. But that's mostly based on Wolfman's Teen Titans run, not his recent Nightwing run. So, technically, if you're just counting the solo Nightwing title, Dixon would be #1. But Dick Grayson/Nightwing was pretty big in those Wolfman Teen Titans stories, so its hard to ignore him.

I think I'm now going to have to go read the Wolfman Titans and finish my Dixon run to see if your right.