Comics! Nightwing #3

Nightwing #3

Kyle Higgins: writer

Eddy Barrows & Eduardo Pansica: pencils

JP Mayer, Paulo Siqueira, & Eber Ferreira: inks

This book is growing in the pencils/inks credits at a pretty fast rate. That's not good, right?

Saiko means best in Japanese. That was something that had to be cleared up.

The story overall was ok this issue. But it was a predictable kind of comic. I never felt that anything bad was going to happen to Nightwing. He was never in any actual trouble in the story when the villain for the issue tried to beat him up. The story once again felt stiff and routine. Very predictable. If this issue was supposed to be a "take a breath" issue that focused less on action and more on revealing character details, then it had some small success with that goal. I felt like I got to know something about Dick in this issue that I didn't know before, but I don't really know what that is.

Someone needs to talk to an artist about perspectives and transitioning between the panels. I will try to explain this without showing the pictures, and hopefully you will get it. On the first page we have two panels next to each other. On the left panel, you have a picture of a hand that has just thrown a stick to someone who is out of the frame on the left side. On the right panel, you have someone catching that stick with their chin and their arms held up as if they are balancing themselves on a wire. Looks ok, except for the fact that it looks like one panel due to the fact that the right panel cuts off the guy's arm and it looks like he is throwing a stick and has also caught it on his chin. That may not be the best way to describe it, but when that happens and it looks like one panel, even I had to read through it a couple of times to understand what is happening.

Another case of weird perspectives involves the Chicago scene. As Nightwing is swinging between buildings, and you have buildings in the background that look as if the ground is a few feet below them, why is Nightwing's rope swinging downward? Isn't he falling and doesn't need them if he is only a few stories off the ground? Flip to the next page and you see that he was swinging downward because he was still about 20 stories above the ground and then lands on a rooftop. It is all just weird and felt seriously off.

And then just to really throw things off, let's have our hired killer that doesn't quite look like Wolverine appear at the end and throw a wrench into the story that felt empty and confusing. Haly's son hired Saiko? Really? We are going down that road?

Words: 5/10

Pictures: 4/10

Recommend: No. This book just keeps slipping.

Buy Next Issue: Negative. Another one bites the dust.