Comics! Nightwing #2

Nightwing #2

Kyle Higgins: Writer

Eddy Barrows: Penciller

JP Mayer & Paulo Siqueira: Inks

Through gritted teeth or closed mouth. That is how each and every character speaks. And it is through the same gritted teeth that I want to get rid of this book quick and fast.

I don't know if I just can't find a thrill or if I'm just tired of seeing some of the same things pop up in the various new DC books. Once again, the villain knows the heroes' identity. Once again, someone close to the hero is able to figure out who they were the whole time. For something that was supposed to be totally new tales and stories with the new 52, a lot of them already seem like they are being recycled.

Continuing from last issue's cliffhanger, we found our hero, Nightwing, evading the villain, Saiko Killer (groan...) and the villain sneaks away after putting an innocent in harm's way. Skip to Dick Grayson finding out that the owner of Haly's Circus is dying and wants to talk to him. Haly tells Dick that he figured out that Dick=Nightwing and that the circus is Dick's when Haly dies. Dick doesn't know how to take in this news, joins the mile high club with another red head (they seem to follow Dick to any universe), and then turns around the plane they are in to rescue Haly from a burning building and fight Saiko Killer again. Whew.

In reading the solicitations for future issues, it looks like Dick takes inheriting the circus seriously and decides to travel with it. So we get to follow Dick around as he travels with a side show, and this is happening in a side show Bat-book. Whoa, how the mighty have fallen. Wasn't Dick just playing the role of Batman? What happened?

The art seemed stiff, the story seemed routine, this is just really weird to me. This was one book that I was hopeful for, but I am more interested in other former Robin books (the others being Teen Titans and Red Hood) than I am even remotely interested in this one. I'm not trying to seriously trash the book, but my first red through was simply boring. The second time through it I was just laughing my ass off. When I read it a third time I just shake my head. This comic had much more potential to it then what was given to the reader.

It doesn't look like this title will be with us for much longer.

Words: 5/10

Pictures: 5/10

Recommend: No. Just stay away.

Buy Next Issue: It gets to the third issue, then that will be all. This might be the first Batbook that goes bye bye. Weird.