NIGHTWING #145
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Size: pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
I like where the story is going overall and even though I find some of it overly-wordy (did we really need that much explanation of how the "Mother Of Champions" was giving so many births, and did you ever expect to read the word "vaginally" in a Nightwing comic?) it's a solid story that keeps me wanting to find out more. Some small things bug me, like I still hate the new hang glider Nightwing is using. 140 issues without it, and now all of a sudden it seems to be on every page. It just seems forced & corny, like the only reason he has it is a "gimmick" because his name is NightWING ... it just rubs me the wrong way. But, it has no real impact on the actual story which is kickin' ass, so it's not a big deal.
It's cool to see Nightwing finally having a good writer/artist team on the book after so many bad years, and his character might finally be getting some of the respect he deserves -- in this issue he took down four flying dudes with sub-machine guns (and horrible aim), each with the strength of twenty men -- Dick is a bad-ass. He led the Justice League at one point (as a sub, but still ...) and people forget things like this. This dude is no joke. This title is finally what it hasn't been in a long time -- a solid superhero book with worthwhile adversaries.
I thought the art in this issue was a little off the mark, and not up to Rags Morales usual very high standard. It was still good, but look at the panels of Batman for example -- yuck. Rags can (and usually does) way better than this, but maybe it's the inker? I'm not sure how these things work exactly.
One last thing I loved about this issue -- the way Ra's escaped his "drug prison" with the Keith Richards style, full body blood transfusion. Awesome.
Art: 4 - Very Good
Wade, nice review my friend. I really enjoyed this book this week as well. I was actually pretty surprised to see that Ra’s escaped in this book (I figured it was going to happen during RIP or later on down the line in the Batman book). Also, I love that you point out the one thing that makes this title great: it gives relevance to Nightwing.
Keep up the nice work.
Thanks a lot, Neb!
It’s about damn time Nightwing was relevant, right? He’s been so under-used & disrespected as a character for so many years, maybe DC finally see how much people like him after the big backlash they got when it leaked they were gonna off him in Infinite Crisis.
I gotta agree with Neb, this was a damn solid review dude, agree 100%.
And about Nightwing being relevant again, I had a thought: Nolan doesn’t want Robin in his Batman franchise, which I agree with as it would just seem off. So with the book being this good right now, DC should just skip the Robin stuff and get someone like David Fincher or Paul Greengrass to do a straight-out Nightwing movie.
It won’t happen, of course, but being a fanboy’s all about imagination. Nice work, sir!