Nightwing (2016-) #124

Nightwing (2016) (Single Issues)

by Dan Watters, Dexter Soy (Artist)

To save the lives of one of Blüdhaven’s gangs, Nightwing must stage a heist onSpheric Solutions. But revelations of the corporation’s true sinister nature threatento shatter his very reality.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Comic Book

Kindle Edition

Published March 19, 2025

About the author

Dan Watters is a UK based comic book writer. His first book, LIMBO, was released through Image Comics in 2016. He has since written THE SHADOW at Dynamite Comics, and ASSASSIN’S CREED and WOLFENSTEIN for Titan Comics.

Currently he is writing the relaunch of LUCIFER for Vertigo’s Sandman Universe, as well as DEEP ROOTS for Vault Comics. Deeply rooted in London Town, and firmly of the Devil's party.

Reviews

[James DeSantis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love that Nightwing is pushed to his brink. Poor kids are stuck in this hellhole, not all innocent, but enough where you feel bad. Also the art is fantastic here, some amazing shots.

[Mia · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

This is getting so good.

[alejandro galvez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nightwing is rocking right now !

This was so good. This series is a banger! Don't listen to the haters, this is a really cool and inventive series. Can't wait to see where it goes from here.

[Jadyn❀ · Rating 4 out of 5]

This issue has what my best friend would call “bad science” bc I can’t imagine how Dick is even standing let alone fighting in the streets with that much blood lost. But Watters is doing a great job with his characterization.

[lila · Rating 5 out of 5]

my favorite issue of this current run

[Cybernex007 · Rating 4 out of 5]

It seems that Nightwing continues to have a bit more things in common with Batman than he would think. Especially with the current Batman and Robin run, namely they are both hallucinating!! When we left Nightwing last time, he was dealing with a few mutated fly bois. They were left in such a state that if they didn’t get blood transfusions they would die. Three in particular needed it immediately. None of the teddies, also under nightwing’s protection, would have anything to do with helping a divinal gang…so it was all left with Nightwing and his universal donor blood. But the human body can only give so much blood, and soon enough Dick started to hallucinate and started seeing Zanni of the Cirque Du Sin. the last time Dick saw him was when he was still Robin, and Olivia injected him with a hallucinogen. Now that she is back in his life, he is seeing it again. But this hallucination is so interesting, because it talks like it’s alive and has its own thoughts and plans that Olivia shares an d is trying to follow.

In the middle of the procedure Dick’s heart stopped temporarily and he was brought back with adrenaline. Only one of the three in urgent care survived. But his sacrifice still saved one. The teddies still can’t believe he would waste the effort, and right before the two groups can start fighting…the young boy named Bryce, part of the teddies, interjected and told them the obvious: fighting isn’t going to help any of them. It was great seeing Dick look on proudly, but things can’t be good forever. When Dick checked in with Oracle later she was obliged to tell him about his sister, even though he needs bed rest. Turns out she went through with the order for a bunch of nah hunting robots from Olivia. The exact same model we saw piloted by a rabbit earlier. The current plan is to bit the streets and use non lethal force to round up all the gangs. But Melinda is still not listening to Dick’s warnings about Olivia orchestrating all of this, for this specific outcome.

Dick wouldn’t hear any more of her excuses and hit the streets immediately on his bike. He still hasn’t recovered and we get some really cool scenes where he is hallucinating the dirt as the cirque du sin. At the same time, seeing all the children and damage the robots were causing…Melinda asked Olivia to scale it back…but that’s not happening as Olivia has started to monologue and take her fake face off!! Right as Melinda starts to realize Nightwing was right, she also realized it was too late. According to Olivia the cirque made her something completely different, something that has left Melinda horrified. But what the cirque wants more than anything is to save the children, but what they need is for the children to come to Zanni willingly…they need a ringmaster. And as Zanni teased earlier to Nightwing directly, that ringmaster seeing setup as him. In the final few pages we see Nightwing attempt to take down one of the robots, only for a hallucination to take over…but out of the blue a few bullets shot into the robot, giving Nightwing the chance he needed to take it down. It turns out those bullets came from Bryce, who now refers to Nightwing as his boss and is wearing a Nightwing patch over his teddies badge. Remember when I mentioned multiple things Nightwing has in common with Batman? Turns out recruiting children is one of those, and he is falling right into Olivia’s plans.

[RubiGiráldez RubiGiráldez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Salva aunque sea una vida. Es mejor que ninguna. Es mejor que no ser un héroe.

Dick protagoniza la campaña de donación de sangre más peligrosa posible mientras este nuevo yugo de represión policial robotizada ya pone en alerta a la alcaldesa Lin-Grayson (demasiado tarde). Por otra parte, ese siniestro personaje circense sigue imponiéndose en la historia aunque seguimos sin discernir si su poder puede ser sobrenatural o incluso un enemigo de la propia psique de Nightwing.

[Puffin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty funny. I enjoy how Watters writes Nightwing's speech patterns, though I'll be glad once the "Show must go on" plot is over. Not a huge Fan of the 'Cirque du Sins' or Olivia, or the half-sister thing [though obviously the latter is not Watters' doing]

[luciddreamer99 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm having trouble getting into the most recent Nightwing run, though I am missing context, as I've stated for some other recent reads. Time to give myself some homework. It might not raise my rating, but I think it's good enough on its own. The art is just not super dynamic: passable, but not the best. I recommend the comic for Batman Family completists or Nightwing fans.

[Shazne · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's finally getting back to greatness. Last few issues were carried solely by the art. Good to see the pacing back on top.

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Nightwing’s Thiccness · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am also Nightwing Gang™️

[Kastie Pavlik · Rating 5 out of 5]

This ended way too soon. I MUST KNOW MORE!

(And, yeah, seriously, where's the science here? 2 pints of blood to 3 people?? 🤨 Come on. ヽ⁠(⁠(⁠◎⁠д⁠◎⁠)⁠)⁠ゝ)

[ari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nightwing being a universal blood donor being canon >


Girl this cirque du sin plot… what’s the tea.

[Bryan Ford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Peanuts 2 N Elephant

[Ryan MacLean · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jumped into this issue on the go and will definitely check out #125