Routine. Boring. Stiff.
Nightwing is going through the motions. The character of Dick Grayson got elevated to Batman status and then got regulated back to his old persona. When he was Batman, it felt good. It felt right. It was called character progression. And fans enjoyed it. It was only a few years ago that Dick Grayson's name was put up as one that was going to die in Infinite Crisis. He lived, and his character was allowed to do something different when he was Batman.
Fast forward to now. DC gets relaunched and we have to put Dick Grayson back into the role of Nightwing because Bruce gets to be Batman again. So what should be done with his character? Its a tough task. What do you do after being Batman?
Let's look at what they decided to do: routine story that tries to put the character back into his former self and former lifestyle. There is so much of "See, he's different than Bruce!" But he's not, and it especially shows in this book.
I could go on about how the character should try to get as far away from Gotham and Batman and everything with that, but this is about reviewing what they have done and how the comic was presented to us. What they needed to do was deliver a better story than this "safe" material. I say safe because I don't see anything here that hasn't been done before in other comics. The art, the story, both seem safe for now. Its not taking any chances with anything. Its not surprising or entertaining to me.
It feels like this story was placed here as a way to churn out material for Nightwing that is a placeholder for things to come. Like an editor said that they need something to fill in the gap and just push something out that people will buy for now but expect something good in the next couple of years when some other creative team comes along.
So I'll just be waiting until a new creative team comes along.
Averages for Issues #1-3:
Words: 5.3/10
Pictures: 5.3/10
Overall Grade for issues #1-3: This is a solid 5/10 for me. I gave it three issues, and it just wasn't doing it for me. I don't see new readers liking it too much as well, but they should read it for themselves.
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