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perpetual_motionThis one made it onto my buy pile simply because I wanted to check out how Dick was going to be handled after the relaunch. The answer? Spectacularly. Let us look at it.
First, these two pages:
When it was announced Dick wouldn't be Bats anymore, a lot of people flipped shit. Me? I was happy to hear it because you know what? Dick isn't Bats. He did it because he had to, but he was never meant to be Bats, and he never wanted to be Bats. Nightwing is who Dick is. Nightwing is something he created completely on his own and worked hard to make into something, and no matter what type of costume he's in, Dick will forever be Nightwing to me, and I'm glad to see the writer has the same idea, because if Dick had been written as missing the cowl, I'd have called bullshit.
Moving on, I've only got a couple more pages, and they're set in Hayley's circus. It's come through town, and Dick is determined to stop by. He even runs into some old friends:
Wonderful hair-snark, aside (Seriously, Dick. Bruce Davison called and wants his haircut back), that panel of Dick looking up at the trapeeze just warms all my dark, evil places. It's all the art, too. In a single panel, with no words, you know exactly why Dick is a crimefighter. He gets to fly, and he wants that more than anything else in the world.
So, really loved this one, especially when matched up with Batman, which I will cover shortly.
First, these two pages:
When it was announced Dick wouldn't be Bats anymore, a lot of people flipped shit. Me? I was happy to hear it because you know what? Dick isn't Bats. He did it because he had to, but he was never meant to be Bats, and he never wanted to be Bats. Nightwing is who Dick is. Nightwing is something he created completely on his own and worked hard to make into something, and no matter what type of costume he's in, Dick will forever be Nightwing to me, and I'm glad to see the writer has the same idea, because if Dick had been written as missing the cowl, I'd have called bullshit.
Moving on, I've only got a couple more pages, and they're set in Hayley's circus. It's come through town, and Dick is determined to stop by. He even runs into some old friends:
Wonderful hair-snark, aside (Seriously, Dick. Bruce Davison called and wants his haircut back), that panel of Dick looking up at the trapeeze just warms all my dark, evil places. It's all the art, too. In a single panel, with no words, you know exactly why Dick is a crimefighter. He gets to fly, and he wants that more than anything else in the world.
So, really loved this one, especially when matched up with Batman, which I will cover shortly.
