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Nightwing (2016)
Nightwing, Vol. 7: The Bleeding Edge
It's a new beginning for Dick Grayson, as novelist Benjamin Percy takes the vigilante on a high-octane, adrenaline-fueled adventure in Nightwing Vol. 7, a great jumping on point for new readers!
Change is on the horizon. A new technologist sets his sights on Bl�dhaven, creating a holographic, interconnected city where everyone is an individual and part of a larger network. It's the internet made physical. Gentrification on gigabyte-laced steroids. But when this new utopia encroaches on his turf, Nightwing starts to uncover a sinister plot based not on revenge...but on a reckoning.
Incoming creative team of horror novelist and Green Arrow alumn Benjamin Percy and artist Chris Mooneyham (Boom Studios's Planet of the Apes) will take Nightwing on a digital nightmare that will have long-lasting ramifications for the DC Universe in NightwingVol. 7! This great new jumping-on point is perfect for readers wanting to catch up with Dick Grayson! Collects #44-49 and Annual #1.
Change is on the horizon. A new technologist sets his sights on Bl�dhaven, creating a holographic, interconnected city where everyone is an individual and part of a larger network. It's the internet made physical. Gentrification on gigabyte-laced steroids. But when this new utopia encroaches on his turf, Nightwing starts to uncover a sinister plot based not on revenge...but on a reckoning.
Incoming creative team of horror novelist and Green Arrow alumn Benjamin Percy and artist Chris Mooneyham (Boom Studios's Planet of the Apes) will take Nightwing on a digital nightmare that will have long-lasting ramifications for the DC Universe in NightwingVol. 7! This great new jumping-on point is perfect for readers wanting to catch up with Dick Grayson! Collects #44-49 and Annual #1.
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First published January 1, 2019
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Benjamin Percy
790 books1,203 followersBenjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow) -- three short fiction collections, and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and the Paris Review. His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writer's Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeart Radio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.
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February 9, 2019
I was hoping for a Green Arrow redux scenario after Percy's turn on that book. What we got instead was a crap story mixing up random tech and pop culture. The big bad here is some computer virus-y thing named Wyrm. His big plot is to give every business in Bludhaven some kind of augmented reality rig so their place can look nicer. It's a really dumb idea that makes no sense. In reality he's using AR to control people. There's so much other nonsense to come out of this like a human getting sucked into a random smart phone due to a virus on the phone. Also, there's these teckie creatures running around made out of random tech and organic goo that can morph into anyone they want to spread fake news. Even as a type this, I get more infuriated over how terrible this was. Then there's an unresolved 2 parter that rips off the race from Ready Player One. It probably won't get resolved properly in the next volume either because issue 50 starts a radical new storyline that causes a title reboot. Chris Mooneyham provides most of the art which is obliterated by Klaus Janson's jagly inks. It looks awful. After reading this arc, I'm glad Percy jumped ship with issue 50, even though the next story's new direction sounds even dumber. I'm sure it won't stick around long either before DC abandons it.
May 18, 2022
This was quite fun really!
So we have Nightwing facing off against some "Wyrm" villain and then we learn who or what it is, the whole dark web aspect of it and the Phantasm tech and their soldiers "The terminals" and Vire, something out of a haunted book and yeah its quite fun, seeing Dick the guy with like no-tech habit vs the tech deities or whatever it is and yeah its fun seeing him and Batgirl fight these villains off but what happens when he has to go on a bike race to save other people and yeah here we get some cool race in "Isle of harm" and the art here is packed with action and the silencer cameos as well and then the weird ending that doesn't go anywhere in the future volumes.
Umm yeah so there's that.. a weird volume with some cool ideas and good action and kind of trying to push Dick in a new direction and building to something big with Nightwing but abandoned in future volumes.. It has some cool ideas and villains though. The art in the end was cool. And also comments how Nightwing is a center of heroes in DCU and I kinda liked that.
So we have Nightwing facing off against some "Wyrm" villain and then we learn who or what it is, the whole dark web aspect of it and the Phantasm tech and their soldiers "The terminals" and Vire, something out of a haunted book and yeah its quite fun, seeing Dick the guy with like no-tech habit vs the tech deities or whatever it is and yeah its fun seeing him and Batgirl fight these villains off but what happens when he has to go on a bike race to save other people and yeah here we get some cool race in "Isle of harm" and the art here is packed with action and the silencer cameos as well and then the weird ending that doesn't go anywhere in the future volumes.
Umm yeah so there's that.. a weird volume with some cool ideas and good action and kind of trying to push Dick in a new direction and building to something big with Nightwing but abandoned in future volumes.. It has some cool ideas and villains though. The art in the end was cool. And also comments how Nightwing is a center of heroes in DCU and I kinda liked that.
February 1, 2022
This volume targets the internet, social media, and fake news for criticism. However, it does it in a heavy-handed way within a story that doesn't make much sense. On top of that, add cringy dialogue and you have an unreadable mess. Give this a pass if you value your time.
October 18, 2018
More Percy's Teen Titans than Green Arrow.
World: The art is okay, it's not that great cause for the most part the art is trying to be Romita Jr (and they even had Romita Jr. do some alternate covers) and not doing that good of a job. Just get Romita Jr. The issue with Otto Smidt which partnered with Percy for Green Arrow is so beautiful to look at. The world building here is okay, there are moments of greatness and moments of logic leaps readers needs to take and there are moments it's slapped together from current pop culture. The beautiful is the parts where Dick is talking about himself about being a Luddite and him reorienting himself with the new creative team on board, it's well done, the first issue paves the way well for the world at large and the characters (mainstays like Babs and Dick) are well written and portrayed. There are some characters that Percy is using which is interesting but maybe I'm not caught up in all the Bat books but I don't see where Vicky Vale suddenly showing up again and being so chummy with Dick with no previous build-up of it (did I miss something or is this choppy world building? And why Vicky? There is so much stuff with Bruce there that can be avoided with a new character). The logic leaps is of course the main crux of the story and a big part of the world building, the tech from Mirage, the idea behind it and the reasoning people would get behind it makes little sense and you just have to accept it as a reader if you want to buy into the story "because comics" is needed here. Cause how can we think that slapping AR on top of buildings and lives would satisfy people, especially the Government endorsing such as stupid idea, so "Because Comics". The slapped together pop culture stuff? It's West World (season two, you'll know what I'm talking about when you see them) and Ready Player One "Oasis" type AR and the cycle race. It's slapped together and lacks creativity and originality which I know Percy has (Green Arrow run).
Story: I like the idea of Nightwing facing a techno enemy and the old school and the tech coming together. I also like the idea of fighting the "Dark Web" and it's an interesting notion and something that could be kinda cool (Babs faced something similar in the New52). The start with Dick and his monologues about himself being a Luddite were well done and sets up the readers for the conflict. However the book list me when it asked me to logic leap the tech, the idea of Wrym and data mining is interesting and relevant and frightening and can be done very well, but with the crazy AR hologram stuff that was a bit too much for me. Great in concept, not so great in the execution. The storyline kinda falls apart at the end of the arc with too many moving pieces, from Vale to Cloke and so many characters, keeping it simple like Green Arrow would have made it so great. The Annual made it even more convoluted without any true set up in the Bleeding Edge arc to set up the next stage and a bigger stage, it felt rushed and now we're heading towards a mess of a storyline with lots of lost potential.
Characters: I like Dick, he's written well, his characterization is spot on, I still don't like the trainer thing but oh well (I liked him best as a cop during Dickson's run), his dialog with Babs is good and I wish there was more set up for Vicky Vale and it not being Vicky Vale so that we can get the chemistry flowing for Dick making another mistake. Vale, I don't know why Percy needs to use Vale, there is so much history there and opening that can of worms for the sake of an easter egg and a call back seems needless when we can just as well have Dick find another lass, which is his way anyways. Barely any characterization on Vale's part which is also a shame. Then there is the villain Wyrm which I like, the idea and concept of what he is and why he's evil is very modern and I like it but he needs more depth and the hologram thing makes him too over the top and ridiculous, it could have just as easy been a Madhatter kinda deal with a flashing app that does some techno babble.
Overall this had potential but the overly complex and the logic leap took me out of a potentially fun and long run. I had hoped that Wyrm would open a door for Nightwing like the Ninth Circle did for Ollie on Percy's run (a sustained villain in the background) but right now, it's messy.
Onward to the next book!
*read individual issues*
World: The art is okay, it's not that great cause for the most part the art is trying to be Romita Jr (and they even had Romita Jr. do some alternate covers) and not doing that good of a job. Just get Romita Jr. The issue with Otto Smidt which partnered with Percy for Green Arrow is so beautiful to look at. The world building here is okay, there are moments of greatness and moments of logic leaps readers needs to take and there are moments it's slapped together from current pop culture. The beautiful is the parts where Dick is talking about himself about being a Luddite and him reorienting himself with the new creative team on board, it's well done, the first issue paves the way well for the world at large and the characters (mainstays like Babs and Dick) are well written and portrayed. There are some characters that Percy is using which is interesting but maybe I'm not caught up in all the Bat books but I don't see where Vicky Vale suddenly showing up again and being so chummy with Dick with no previous build-up of it (did I miss something or is this choppy world building? And why Vicky? There is so much stuff with Bruce there that can be avoided with a new character). The logic leaps is of course the main crux of the story and a big part of the world building, the tech from Mirage, the idea behind it and the reasoning people would get behind it makes little sense and you just have to accept it as a reader if you want to buy into the story "because comics" is needed here. Cause how can we think that slapping AR on top of buildings and lives would satisfy people, especially the Government endorsing such as stupid idea, so "Because Comics". The slapped together pop culture stuff? It's West World (season two, you'll know what I'm talking about when you see them) and Ready Player One "Oasis" type AR and the cycle race. It's slapped together and lacks creativity and originality which I know Percy has (Green Arrow run).
Story: I like the idea of Nightwing facing a techno enemy and the old school and the tech coming together. I also like the idea of fighting the "Dark Web" and it's an interesting notion and something that could be kinda cool (Babs faced something similar in the New52). The start with Dick and his monologues about himself being a Luddite were well done and sets up the readers for the conflict. However the book list me when it asked me to logic leap the tech, the idea of Wrym and data mining is interesting and relevant and frightening and can be done very well, but with the crazy AR hologram stuff that was a bit too much for me. Great in concept, not so great in the execution. The storyline kinda falls apart at the end of the arc with too many moving pieces, from Vale to Cloke and so many characters, keeping it simple like Green Arrow would have made it so great. The Annual made it even more convoluted without any true set up in the Bleeding Edge arc to set up the next stage and a bigger stage, it felt rushed and now we're heading towards a mess of a storyline with lots of lost potential.
Characters: I like Dick, he's written well, his characterization is spot on, I still don't like the trainer thing but oh well (I liked him best as a cop during Dickson's run), his dialog with Babs is good and I wish there was more set up for Vicky Vale and it not being Vicky Vale so that we can get the chemistry flowing for Dick making another mistake. Vale, I don't know why Percy needs to use Vale, there is so much history there and opening that can of worms for the sake of an easter egg and a call back seems needless when we can just as well have Dick find another lass, which is his way anyways. Barely any characterization on Vale's part which is also a shame. Then there is the villain Wyrm which I like, the idea and concept of what he is and why he's evil is very modern and I like it but he needs more depth and the hologram thing makes him too over the top and ridiculous, it could have just as easy been a Madhatter kinda deal with a flashing app that does some techno babble.
Overall this had potential but the overly complex and the logic leap took me out of a potentially fun and long run. I had hoped that Wyrm would open a door for Nightwing like the Ninth Circle did for Ollie on Percy's run (a sustained villain in the background) but right now, it's messy.
Onward to the next book!
*read individual issues*
June 7, 2019
This was painful to get through. Bad plot. Bad dialogue, nothing like I would expect from the guy who wrote the pretty damn good green arrow.
September 19, 2018
So this volume had a lot going on. Even though I don't really care for stories where the moral seems to be "technology is bad, and younger generations should feel bad", I think this plays with the idea of misinformation as a super villain really well.
Towards the end it starts to get a bit more chaotic; turning into something like Speed Racer mixed with Tron mixed with Ready Player One, which is a bit outside of the realm I usually like members of the Bat family to inhabit.
But over all it was still a fun and interesting story, and Dick and Babs were written really well.
Towards the end it starts to get a bit more chaotic; turning into something like Speed Racer mixed with Tron mixed with Ready Player One, which is a bit outside of the realm I usually like members of the Bat family to inhabit.
But over all it was still a fun and interesting story, and Dick and Babs were written really well.
September 3, 2025
This volume was pretty good
October 27, 2018
[Read as single issues]
It’s a new creative team and new threats for Nightwing, with Bludhaven under attack from all sides as technology runs riot, and even Batgirl’s assistance might not be enough for him to save his city. Then it’s the race from hell as Nightwing blazes trails with the lives of his newest friends hanging in the balance.
Ben Percy’s Nightwing run is a weird one. It was cut short after issue 50, with Percy leaving abruptly (I assume because he didn’t want to write the story DC wanted to tell, but more on that in the next volume). As a result, I’m not really sure what’s going to be in this trade. The solicitation implies that it collects up to issue 48, but #48-49 are a two-part story, so it could either end at #47, or continue to #49. I’m going to assume it includes #44-49 and Annual #1, since that encompasses all of Percy’s run bar issue #50, which is part 1 of a new story anyway, and having his entire run in one book seems to make the most sense to me personally. Whether DC will agree, we’ll find out when the book is actually released.
So, anyway. The larger of the two arcs collected here pits Dick against the Dark Web, an organization that threatens to destroy Bludhaven with virtual reality, which is like the most 90s plot I’ve read in a long time. It’s a good idea, and it works well with the fact that Dick has really embedded himself in Bludhaven as a citizen and a crimefighter, so having his newly claimed home under threat is a good move.
It does go on for a bit longer than I’d have liked, and the Annual that rounds off the story is far too long for its own good, but the main problem I have is with the art. Chris Mooneyham’s pencils combined with Klaus Janson’s inks make each issue look like they belong in the 80s, and that’s not a good look. It’s all jagged and unpolished, and I don’t like it at all. I’m not sure if it’s Janson over-inking or Mooneyham under-pencilling, but the visuals really let this arc down.
The shorter two-part arc is one part Wacky Races one part Death Race as Dick and the Silencer take part in a race to the top of an enchanted island in order to win a one-off wish. This feeds right off the back of the previous arc, but it’s a lot more fun, as if Percy has finally realised what makes Nightwing the character he is – he’s Batman, but without the angst and with more flips-n-shit. This isn’t a story Batman would fit into, but it’s a perfect place for Dick, and the artwork from newcomer Amancay Nahuelpan is an enormous step-up from Mooneyham. This is my first exposure to Silencer as well, and I definitely liked what I saw.
I feel like, aside from his stellar Green Arrow run, Ben Percy keeps getting the shaft at DC. His Teen Titans run was interrupted more than once, and his Nightwing run has been cut short just as it starts to get going. This volume has a decent story buried under anachronistic art, and two great issues that unfortunately don’t look like they’re going to be followed up on any time soon. Percy’s run isn’t bad, but it definitely hasn’t been able to live up to its potential, and now isn’t going to get the chance, which is a shame.
It’s a new creative team and new threats for Nightwing, with Bludhaven under attack from all sides as technology runs riot, and even Batgirl’s assistance might not be enough for him to save his city. Then it’s the race from hell as Nightwing blazes trails with the lives of his newest friends hanging in the balance.
Ben Percy’s Nightwing run is a weird one. It was cut short after issue 50, with Percy leaving abruptly (I assume because he didn’t want to write the story DC wanted to tell, but more on that in the next volume). As a result, I’m not really sure what’s going to be in this trade. The solicitation implies that it collects up to issue 48, but #48-49 are a two-part story, so it could either end at #47, or continue to #49. I’m going to assume it includes #44-49 and Annual #1, since that encompasses all of Percy’s run bar issue #50, which is part 1 of a new story anyway, and having his entire run in one book seems to make the most sense to me personally. Whether DC will agree, we’ll find out when the book is actually released.
So, anyway. The larger of the two arcs collected here pits Dick against the Dark Web, an organization that threatens to destroy Bludhaven with virtual reality, which is like the most 90s plot I’ve read in a long time. It’s a good idea, and it works well with the fact that Dick has really embedded himself in Bludhaven as a citizen and a crimefighter, so having his newly claimed home under threat is a good move.
It does go on for a bit longer than I’d have liked, and the Annual that rounds off the story is far too long for its own good, but the main problem I have is with the art. Chris Mooneyham’s pencils combined with Klaus Janson’s inks make each issue look like they belong in the 80s, and that’s not a good look. It’s all jagged and unpolished, and I don’t like it at all. I’m not sure if it’s Janson over-inking or Mooneyham under-pencilling, but the visuals really let this arc down.
The shorter two-part arc is one part Wacky Races one part Death Race as Dick and the Silencer take part in a race to the top of an enchanted island in order to win a one-off wish. This feeds right off the back of the previous arc, but it’s a lot more fun, as if Percy has finally realised what makes Nightwing the character he is – he’s Batman, but without the angst and with more flips-n-shit. This isn’t a story Batman would fit into, but it’s a perfect place for Dick, and the artwork from newcomer Amancay Nahuelpan is an enormous step-up from Mooneyham. This is my first exposure to Silencer as well, and I definitely liked what I saw.
I feel like, aside from his stellar Green Arrow run, Ben Percy keeps getting the shaft at DC. His Teen Titans run was interrupted more than once, and his Nightwing run has been cut short just as it starts to get going. This volume has a decent story buried under anachronistic art, and two great issues that unfortunately don’t look like they’re going to be followed up on any time soon. Percy’s run isn’t bad, but it definitely hasn’t been able to live up to its potential, and now isn’t going to get the chance, which is a shame.
November 4, 2019
Suddenly, Nightwing hates all technology, but not...gets a landline and loses his cellphone...except for when he has a commlink? Also, the use of code questions was brought up, but he didn’t use them before to clear up a situation instantly....what is this.
I did not hate the big bad of this, just felt silly and awkward. Oh, there is a wacky races of Nightwing’s villains during his time as Batman. Sigh.
I did not hate the big bad of this, just felt silly and awkward. Oh, there is a wacky races of Nightwing’s villains during his time as Batman. Sigh.
June 8, 2019
Read as single issues when they were released. This was the beginning of the end.
December 23, 2021
There were aspects of this volume I liked: (I did like issue #44, so there was a strong start...)
The art. Dick's internal dialogue in #44. His joke about Detective Svoboda and Bullock hitting it off. I also liked the one second where Dick was hallucinating a morning after with Babs in issue #45. But. Everything else was just so disappointingly weak.
Dick as a personal trainer is just all awkward dialogue (worst Dick Grayson profession to date), his "old man" attitude reads kinda silly, and even his team-up with Batgirl against the internet monster was lame. Well, maybe that was more the fault of the monster than the team-up.
The idea of the internet Doxxing everyone and their private misdeeds is a really interesting plot & should be explored further in another book... But sadly, Percy took a good idea and made it complicated and stupid with Wyrm and augmented reality to mask the issues of Bludhaven, and the goo-internet monsters ("The Terminals"), and using Willem Cloke. Simple is really best sometimes.
(Anyway, the Russian Sisterhood got involved, which was interesting for like two seconds. Especially when the head Sister blows her hand off to fight Wyrm. That was badass.) Otherwise, lame.
Wyrm is all horny for Nightwing because he's "at the center of a web of heroes" having fought on so many teams, and knowing all the JL members having been Robin, etc. It makes sense, but it reads really cheesy. :(
Issue #47 ends with Willem Cloke somehow getting sucked into a cellphone by Wyrm.
Nightwing Annual #1 maybe is the worst part of this volume. Everything about it is bad. The art by Schmidt, Nightwing flirting with Vicki Vale (where did she come from?!), the introduction of Vire, then Vicki Vale being sucked into the internet too... It's all just bad.
Issue #48 picks up with one of the most convoluted plotlines I've ever read. A motorcycle race so Nightwing can win back his "friends" from Wyrm. I'm sorry, when were Willem Cloke and Vicki Vale Dick's friends?? (Especially Vicki! When is Dick friends with Bruce Wayne's ex-girlfriends?!)
Anyway, this is not just a regular motorcycle race, it's a special fantastical most "deadliest motorcycle race in the cosmos", of course. And at the end of the race is the point where space and time meet in a group of standing stones or whatever and Wyrm wants Nightwing to win to take control of it, cuz, why not. Convoluted.
While I hated issue #48, I surprisingly didn't hate issue #49. I liked the Silencer. I liked Professor Pyg & Flamingo. The ending made absolutely no sense to me... and then, that's it. We move on with a totally new plotline in issue #50.
This whole volume reads like a total waste of time. What happens to Wyrm? To Vicki Vale and Willem Cloke? No closure. No plot development. No follow-through.
1.5 stars.
The art. Dick's internal dialogue in #44. His joke about Detective Svoboda and Bullock hitting it off. I also liked the one second where Dick was hallucinating a morning after with Babs in issue #45. But. Everything else was just so disappointingly weak.
Dick as a personal trainer is just all awkward dialogue (worst Dick Grayson profession to date), his "old man" attitude reads kinda silly, and even his team-up with Batgirl against the internet monster was lame. Well, maybe that was more the fault of the monster than the team-up.
The idea of the internet Doxxing everyone and their private misdeeds is a really interesting plot & should be explored further in another book... But sadly, Percy took a good idea and made it complicated and stupid with Wyrm and augmented reality to mask the issues of Bludhaven, and the goo-internet monsters ("The Terminals"), and using Willem Cloke. Simple is really best sometimes.
(Anyway, the Russian Sisterhood got involved, which was interesting for like two seconds. Especially when the head Sister blows her hand off to fight Wyrm. That was badass.) Otherwise, lame.
Wyrm is all horny for Nightwing because he's "at the center of a web of heroes" having fought on so many teams, and knowing all the JL members having been Robin, etc. It makes sense, but it reads really cheesy. :(
Issue #47 ends with Willem Cloke somehow getting sucked into a cellphone by Wyrm.
Nightwing Annual #1 maybe is the worst part of this volume. Everything about it is bad. The art by Schmidt, Nightwing flirting with Vicki Vale (where did she come from?!), the introduction of Vire, then Vicki Vale being sucked into the internet too... It's all just bad.
Issue #48 picks up with one of the most convoluted plotlines I've ever read. A motorcycle race so Nightwing can win back his "friends" from Wyrm. I'm sorry, when were Willem Cloke and Vicki Vale Dick's friends?? (Especially Vicki! When is Dick friends with Bruce Wayne's ex-girlfriends?!)
Anyway, this is not just a regular motorcycle race, it's a special fantastical most "deadliest motorcycle race in the cosmos", of course. And at the end of the race is the point where space and time meet in a group of standing stones or whatever and Wyrm wants Nightwing to win to take control of it, cuz, why not. Convoluted.
While I hated issue #48, I surprisingly didn't hate issue #49. I liked the Silencer. I liked Professor Pyg & Flamingo. The ending made absolutely no sense to me... and then, that's it. We move on with a totally new plotline in issue #50.
This whole volume reads like a total waste of time. What happens to Wyrm? To Vicki Vale and Willem Cloke? No closure. No plot development. No follow-through.
1.5 stars.
January 21, 2019
Nightwing Vol 7 is fine. It wears its flaws on it sleeve with its poor characterization of Dick Grayson and its, frankly bizarre for 2018, anti technology vibe.
The opening pages of the first issue have Dick lament how technology is everywhere and he's the kinda guy who would use a landline instead of a cell. To my knowledge, this has never been a trait applied to Dick and doesn't make a whole lot of sense. In previous stories by different writers, Dick has used advanced technology a number of times. He was part of a high tech spy agency for Christ's sake. Saying he hates technology simply doesn't track with the character as he exists in the current day. The entire story orbits around this concept of technology=bad with the subtlety of the mid 90's. It has modern references to be sure (people getting doxed) but the story dwells on how scary VR is and has several exploding cell phones. Exploding electronics is a personal pet peeve of mine. Some writers will act like any electronic device is filled with sticks of dynamite for some reason. The book tries to go out of its way to explain the phones and lampshade Dick's 70 year old man viewpoint.
Which brings me to an odd point, Ben Percy's story may be bad but his storytelling is fine. The book flows from scene to scene and issue to issue just fine. I could have used a little more time getting to know Willem Cloke for his twist to really hit me, but that's my biggest complaint structurally. The only time the plot jumps awkwardly is when Dick wakes up with Babs and that's supposed to feel weird. The art, while not the best in my opinion, clearly displayed what was going on and never failed to tell the story that was happening. The result is a dumb story with and easy breezy read. Unoffensive might be the word I'm looking for.
Oh yeah, I forgot! The last two issues are a hilariously silly motorcycle death race guest starring The Silencer! That story was great. No complaints from me. There is a difference between a story that has no idea its stupid, and takes itself really seriously, and one that know its ridiculous and leans into it. Motorcycle death race is the latter. I can only applaud a story for being over the top if that's what the story is shooting for.
The book as a whole reads well enough but at the end of the day I'm pleased to know that the next volume of Nightwing is going in a completely different direction.
The opening pages of the first issue have Dick lament how technology is everywhere and he's the kinda guy who would use a landline instead of a cell. To my knowledge, this has never been a trait applied to Dick and doesn't make a whole lot of sense. In previous stories by different writers, Dick has used advanced technology a number of times. He was part of a high tech spy agency for Christ's sake. Saying he hates technology simply doesn't track with the character as he exists in the current day. The entire story orbits around this concept of technology=bad with the subtlety of the mid 90's. It has modern references to be sure (people getting doxed) but the story dwells on how scary VR is and has several exploding cell phones. Exploding electronics is a personal pet peeve of mine. Some writers will act like any electronic device is filled with sticks of dynamite for some reason. The book tries to go out of its way to explain the phones and lampshade Dick's 70 year old man viewpoint.
Which brings me to an odd point, Ben Percy's story may be bad but his storytelling is fine. The book flows from scene to scene and issue to issue just fine. I could have used a little more time getting to know Willem Cloke for his twist to really hit me, but that's my biggest complaint structurally. The only time the plot jumps awkwardly is when Dick wakes up with Babs and that's supposed to feel weird. The art, while not the best in my opinion, clearly displayed what was going on and never failed to tell the story that was happening. The result is a dumb story with and easy breezy read. Unoffensive might be the word I'm looking for.
Oh yeah, I forgot! The last two issues are a hilariously silly motorcycle death race guest starring The Silencer! That story was great. No complaints from me. There is a difference between a story that has no idea its stupid, and takes itself really seriously, and one that know its ridiculous and leans into it. Motorcycle death race is the latter. I can only applaud a story for being over the top if that's what the story is shooting for.
The book as a whole reads well enough but at the end of the day I'm pleased to know that the next volume of Nightwing is going in a completely different direction.
September 26, 2018
3/5
Dick is one of my favourite DC characters and so far Rebirth wasn't treating him right – the only volume I enjoyed so far was the one written by Humphries. I had high hopes for Percy as I liked his Green Arrow run but unfortunately his Nightwing didn't rock my world. It wasn't that bad but it never gave me the thrill that my favourite Nightwing comics do. I wasn't really that much into grandpa Dick who's so against technology, I never really perceived him as such so it didn't resonate with me here. Babs and Dick's team ups are always a pleasure but that was the only highlight of this volume for me. It wasn't as painful to read as what Seeley was doing by the end of his run on Rebirth Nightwing but I couldn't really get into this volume either.
Dick is one of my favourite DC characters and so far Rebirth wasn't treating him right – the only volume I enjoyed so far was the one written by Humphries. I had high hopes for Percy as I liked his Green Arrow run but unfortunately his Nightwing didn't rock my world. It wasn't that bad but it never gave me the thrill that my favourite Nightwing comics do. I wasn't really that much into grandpa Dick who's so against technology, I never really perceived him as such so it didn't resonate with me here. Babs and Dick's team ups are always a pleasure but that was the only highlight of this volume for me. It wasn't as painful to read as what Seeley was doing by the end of his run on Rebirth Nightwing but I couldn't really get into this volume either.
July 11, 2019
2.5 this started out okay but then spiraled into ridiculous bs.
December 18, 2019
So Ben Percy took over Nightwing and although I had enjoyed the Nightwing run so far , Percy's arrival had me giddy with anticipation and honestly excited . Alas!
So the volume had 2 stories , the first dealing with a Computer virus thingy named Wyrm , and look I really enjoyed how Percy denoted the present generations over dependence on every thing technology and how different things are and in doing so he created a story to detail a hyperbole of negativity that arises from our over dependence on technology.
And of course a bat-family storyline involving technology can't be complete without the inclusion of either Batgirl or Tim (Red Robin) we got Batgirl and the banterous duo were really fun to read . But that's the only good thing about the book because this followed poor artstyle , generic story run and awful dialogues .
It was really hard to read through and I'm putting a 3 volume notice for Nightwing , if things dont improve in the next 2 volumes, I'll drop the title
So the volume had 2 stories , the first dealing with a Computer virus thingy named Wyrm , and look I really enjoyed how Percy denoted the present generations over dependence on every thing technology and how different things are and in doing so he created a story to detail a hyperbole of negativity that arises from our over dependence on technology.
And of course a bat-family storyline involving technology can't be complete without the inclusion of either Batgirl or Tim (Red Robin) we got Batgirl and the banterous duo were really fun to read . But that's the only good thing about the book because this followed poor artstyle , generic story run and awful dialogues .
It was really hard to read through and I'm putting a 3 volume notice for Nightwing , if things dont improve in the next 2 volumes, I'll drop the title
August 25, 2020
Nothing groundbreaking. Didn't like the way Percy portrayed Nightwing. Most of what has gone before is forgotten apart from him being in Bludhaven. And Barbara is back as his girl of choice. By the time this volume finishes in 49 issues Dick has been involved with 4 women. And yet none of these relationships have the same quality or depth as those he has with Wally or Roy in the one shots of this series. (I see shades of Iceman in Dick's behaviour. Just saying.)
Back to this volume, the storyline is poor, knock offs of every AI takeover film in the main story and Death Race in the two parter follow up. The art in the main story is poor, loads of hatching and jenky colouring. It improved in the 3 final issues but even then Dick had some weird Elvis vibes.
After mainly enjoyable issues with the previous writer this volume was seriously disappointing.
Back to this volume, the storyline is poor, knock offs of every AI takeover film in the main story and Death Race in the two parter follow up. The art in the main story is poor, loads of hatching and jenky colouring. It improved in the 3 final issues but even then Dick had some weird Elvis vibes.
After mainly enjoyable issues with the previous writer this volume was seriously disappointing.
January 16, 2025
*1.5* So, wow. What a mess. I’ll start with the best thing about this volume, which is the role Barbara Gordon plays in it. Obviously, any kind of tech-based threat that Nightwing is going to face would be impossible without major assistance from Oracle/Batgirl (as she works here in both capacities). I’m not sure how this fits into the timeline of the Batgirl solo books, but I’m never going to be one to complain about these two appearing in and working together in each other’s books. Earned a half star for the Batgirl/Nightwing dynamic.
Moving on to… the many issues. To start, the constant status quo change. After this run lost its primary writer for a few continuous volumes, every consecutive volume has brought with it a new writer and a new normal for Nightwing. I know why he can’t work with the rehabilitated former villain group anymore, but he lasted, what, 7 issues? as the owner of a workout gym, and now he’s still doing the same thing I guess as a personal trainer. He doesn’t appear to be based in that gym/home anymore, considering he escapes an upper-story window in his home at some point here.
Next thing— it’s at its worst at the beginning of this volume, but damn do they make Dick seem like a dinosaur. A couple acknowledgements to technology he yearns for being “before his time” doesn’t necessarily balance out the fact that this book seems to want to acknowledge the age of the Nightwing character in real world time while also depicting him as a young man we can assume is somewhere around his late 20s. He comes across so out of touch with the world around him for his age. It’s extremely dumb for someone his age to have a corded landline in the time this was set in, and there’s no way he had a landline growing up as part of a traveling circus, so I don’t quite understand why it reminds him of his childhood.
Moving on— I’m no technology expert, but damn does this technology seem implausible, and that’s an issue when your whole plot hinges on it. It doesn’t need to be literally possible. These books are not meant to be realistic. But I don’t think it should feel so fantastical that it takes you out of the story. I feel like they’re doing that thing kids’ shows do where they say a bunch of specialized vocab tech words at you so you just nod your head and say yeah, I guess that could be how that works. These things might feel possible, if we weren’t moving at such a fast pace in which you know this kind of technology can’t really be developed.
Which brings me to the next problem— particularly in the later issues, an issue will end at the height of the action, and the next will pick up an unclear amount of time later with no acknowledgement of how that was resolved, or how we just moved again. Because this arc moves out of Bludhaven into Gotham, and then onto some druid-made fantasy outlaw island in Ireland. I don’t know when we are, where, and how we got here.
Speaking of the Irish island, this is where this entire arc fell apart into pure chaos for me. Why is Nightwing entering some motorcycle race to win mystical guidance from an altar and talking to Celtic gods? Help, I’m so confused about how we got to this point. Nightwing seems to be, too, because his narration keeps telling us how he has to win for himself but also he can’t because that gives the bad people what they want, and he hasn’t figured out what to do about that.
And finally!! Man, Nightwing flirting with Vicki Vale for no reason is weird, please don’t do it again.
Moving on to… the many issues. To start, the constant status quo change. After this run lost its primary writer for a few continuous volumes, every consecutive volume has brought with it a new writer and a new normal for Nightwing. I know why he can’t work with the rehabilitated former villain group anymore, but he lasted, what, 7 issues? as the owner of a workout gym, and now he’s still doing the same thing I guess as a personal trainer. He doesn’t appear to be based in that gym/home anymore, considering he escapes an upper-story window in his home at some point here.
Next thing— it’s at its worst at the beginning of this volume, but damn do they make Dick seem like a dinosaur. A couple acknowledgements to technology he yearns for being “before his time” doesn’t necessarily balance out the fact that this book seems to want to acknowledge the age of the Nightwing character in real world time while also depicting him as a young man we can assume is somewhere around his late 20s. He comes across so out of touch with the world around him for his age. It’s extremely dumb for someone his age to have a corded landline in the time this was set in, and there’s no way he had a landline growing up as part of a traveling circus, so I don’t quite understand why it reminds him of his childhood.
Moving on— I’m no technology expert, but damn does this technology seem implausible, and that’s an issue when your whole plot hinges on it. It doesn’t need to be literally possible. These books are not meant to be realistic. But I don’t think it should feel so fantastical that it takes you out of the story. I feel like they’re doing that thing kids’ shows do where they say a bunch of specialized vocab tech words at you so you just nod your head and say yeah, I guess that could be how that works. These things might feel possible, if we weren’t moving at such a fast pace in which you know this kind of technology can’t really be developed.
Which brings me to the next problem— particularly in the later issues, an issue will end at the height of the action, and the next will pick up an unclear amount of time later with no acknowledgement of how that was resolved, or how we just moved again. Because this arc moves out of Bludhaven into Gotham, and then onto some druid-made fantasy outlaw island in Ireland. I don’t know when we are, where, and how we got here.
Speaking of the Irish island, this is where this entire arc fell apart into pure chaos for me. Why is Nightwing entering some motorcycle race to win mystical guidance from an altar and talking to Celtic gods? Help, I’m so confused about how we got to this point. Nightwing seems to be, too, because his narration keeps telling us how he has to win for himself but also he can’t because that gives the bad people what they want, and he hasn’t figured out what to do about that.
And finally!! Man, Nightwing flirting with Vicki Vale for no reason is weird, please don’t do it again.
October 29, 2019
Best Parts:
1. Dick being a grumpy old grandpa about tech making human interactions less common and Barbara unrepentantly laughing at him about it.
2. The mobile batbunker, courtesy of Barbara Gordon, and Dick's excited squees at the customized Dick Grayson specials, which includes a excercise belt for the glutes (the best ass in dcu doesn't come cheap).
3. Detective Svobeda is the absolute best. She's a female version of the Harvey Bullock- misanthrope overweight cop who's one part competent detective, one part obstructive bureaucrat and two parts of no fucks left to give. I mean, I am saddened by how the art style is gradually making her sleeker and sleeker over the course of various issues but "six-pack mcpretty" and the unimpressed look that goes along with it is something I will treasure for as long as I remember it.
4. The story is a somewhat simplistic take on technology-based misinformation and data mining. I appreciate the subject matter, but I'm skeptical at how easily the general public both adopted and rejected the new news source? It's possible I just don't know enough to properly judge any of this.
5. Dick wants to hire silencer to follow Damien around I am CRYING yes please the other batkids can bodyguard her while they laugh themselves sick.
6. Am I the only one who finds Professor Pyg creepy as hell? I mean, people rave about the joker but every time this guy appears he's made me stare wide-eyed at whatever the fuck he's doing. (He's making frankensteins out of living people while they are alive that's what he's doing jfc.)
7. Why does this volume have an incomplete storyline? I'm very confused.
1. Dick being a grumpy old grandpa about tech making human interactions less common and Barbara unrepentantly laughing at him about it.
2. The mobile batbunker, courtesy of Barbara Gordon, and Dick's excited squees at the customized Dick Grayson specials, which includes a excercise belt for the glutes (the best ass in dcu doesn't come cheap).
3. Detective Svobeda is the absolute best. She's a female version of the Harvey Bullock- misanthrope overweight cop who's one part competent detective, one part obstructive bureaucrat and two parts of no fucks left to give. I mean, I am saddened by how the art style is gradually making her sleeker and sleeker over the course of various issues but "six-pack mcpretty" and the unimpressed look that goes along with it is something I will treasure for as long as I remember it.
4. The story is a somewhat simplistic take on technology-based misinformation and data mining. I appreciate the subject matter, but I'm skeptical at how easily the general public both adopted and rejected the new news source? It's possible I just don't know enough to properly judge any of this.
5. Dick wants to hire silencer to follow Damien around I am CRYING yes please the other batkids can bodyguard her while they laugh themselves sick.
6. Am I the only one who finds Professor Pyg creepy as hell? I mean, people rave about the joker but every time this guy appears he's made me stare wide-eyed at whatever the fuck he's doing. (He's making frankensteins out of living people while they are alive that's what he's doing jfc.)
7. Why does this volume have an incomplete storyline? I'm very confused.
May 14, 2022
2.5 Stars
I'm not really digging this volume. It's basically a cyberpunk story starring Nightwing. I'm not into cyberpunk that much, but even more importantly Nightwing just isn't a character that works in that type of story.
Probably the weakest volume so far.
I'm not really digging this volume. It's basically a cyberpunk story starring Nightwing. I'm not into cyberpunk that much, but even more importantly Nightwing just isn't a character that works in that type of story.
Probably the weakest volume so far.
June 16, 2021
Two thirds of the book is a decent follow-up to the last storyline. The final third is a ridiculous fantasyland with no real purpose or point.
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December 13, 2022officially on to the percy/mooneyham era of vol 7 aka: dick's pretty boy phase where his ass is somehow not the main character anymore
December 22, 2024
This story goes down the rabbit hole.... way way down.
December 31, 2018
A different type of story for Nightwing.
October 1, 2019
Booooring! As histórias de Dick Grayson, nosso ex-Robin favorito e atual Asa Noturna estão entrando numa espiral de chatice amargurada que não tem tamanho. Foi uma pena tirarem Tim Seeley das histórias do personagem porque ele estava construindo um universo bastante interessante dentro da revista. Mas não é só esse arco, de responsabilidade do escritor de Arqueiro Verde, Benjamin Percy que é sem pé e nem cabeça e sem nenhuma condição de fisgar o leitor. Os desenhos dessa edição também são bastante esquisitos e a justificativa para isso não é outra senão a arte final de Klaus Janson, o mesmo cara que faz as finalizações das polêmicas artes de Frank Miller e John Romita Jr. O arco gira em torno de um inteligência artificial que faz o corpo das pessoas de hospedeiros e passa a projetar uma nova realidade. Em nenhum momento, contudo, é explicado como essa nova realidade é produzida, de onde vem e etc e tal. Para piorar, a história não acaba e ficamos sabendo que para entender tudo que foi feito nesse encadernado vamos precisar ler uma determinada edição de Batman, que não é dita qual. Que bela porcaria, hein, DC Comics?
May 14, 2024
I hate to pick up another book over my alloted reading, but I chanced into another comic book shop that had a sale and impulsed myself into another Nightwing. And I haven’t read a Nightwing in forever!
And a Johnny Romita Jr. cover! I’d love to see what he could do with the character!
The interior art is really good. Though they still can’t get his boots right.
The first story Nightwing in Bludhaven (Yea!) investigating crimes having to do with ‘augmented reality’ devices. Basically that overlay postive images on your reality without a phone being necessary. Like mushrooms.
Apparently instead of being a cop, he decided being a personal trainer was a better occupation for his secret identity.
After nabbing a projection device from a crime scene where he spars with his frenemy cop Detective Svoboda.
Have you by chance met Harvey Bullock…? … I really want to set you two up on a date.
He tests out the device and figure out that it’s pulling these idillic images directly from his mind.
And then the device crawls inside his chest.
I gotta say I really like this new artist - Chris Moonyham. An artist I don’t know. No doubt helped by being inked by Klaus Janson, an artist I do know. He’s got some Gil Kane, some Romita Sr., some Gene Colon. Just a bunch of good art in him (yeah, okay I guess it could be her!).
Dick wakes up late and hungover and next to Barbara Gordon. He has no idea what happened. But he gets a call from his latest client, a guy with a metal arm and an electronic eye who has hired him as a trainer.
He dashes out of the house late for his customer and apologizes while they work out. But the workout discovers a dead boy. It has a VR device attached to his hand.
Of course it becomes a crime scene. And Svoboda arrives.
What are you looking at, six-pack McPretty?
He calls Barbara to ask for some info. She doesn’t remember last night.
He goes home and figures out that it’s some kind of VR tricking him. Barbara not remembering his call clues him in.
But even figuring out he is fighting VR doesn’t help him win the fight!
Okay, Dick figures out how to get out of range of the VR Wyrm he’s fighting, but then Batgirl shows up. But it’s tween Batgirl? What’s up with that?
She sounds like Barbara Gordon, but she looks like Jailbait Batgirl!
LOL! I’d even join Patreon if I could read the ‘Oracle Blog’!
But she does give him a face mask that allows Nightwing to toggle between the Phantasm VR illusions and reality.
He uses them to hunt down the technologist who built these devices.
But while Nightwing is fighting synthetic creations Batgirl is confronted a Russian gang that wants things to go back to the old (no holographic ways).
Batgirl beats them and then teams up with Nightwing.
An interesting new artist on the next issue.
Batgirl has freed Nigthwing of the VR demon implanted inside him. I didn’t… think… you were going to tear it… out of my NIPPLE!
Nightwing fails to track down Wyrm, but when Karna Shifton appears on the news and like it or not becomes Gotham’s only news source Nightwing squeezes a Terminal thug to find out more.
The Terminal thug escapes but then is run over by Batgirl in a Bat-Semi Truck which she gives to Nightwing as a mobile Batcave. It also comes with a cool motorcycle.
Nightwing finally fights Karna who is in fact a virtual monster-like thing. The Wyrm inside her/it tells him that he must do them a favor or else all his friends die.
I know I’m a little fuzzy on this but it’s not all that coherent a story.
But just when you could be comforted by the fact that it’s Nightwing back in Bludhaven fighting human-level crime, we find out that the thing that Wyrm wants is for Nightwing to win a motorcycle race on an island of the coast of Ireland where lots of aliens and gods and heroes and villians come… for a motorcycle race.
And if Nightwing doesn’t win then Vicki Vale and the guy he was doing the physical training with will die. He is supposed to win so that he can plant a virus in the price which is a super-alien-Syri device.
So Nightwing goes into the Cynosure bar so that he can ‘Pledge’ to be in the race. Which means he has to drink out of the skull of the Druid who built the mystical road they are going to race on.
Does this read as lame to you as reading it is to me?
So the race is a Hot Wheels track to hell and several riders try to kill Nightwing. He avoids it.
So there was this girl shooting at Nightwing but when he falls off his motorcycle she picks him up.
Cause she claims she was helping him ALL ALONG!
She’s helping him out as restitution for being a BAD GIRL.
This is some A-level Crap Ass writing.
Nightwing wins the race and gets to ask the ultimate question which is apparently “Can you buy me some time?” Which is of course the correct question and so the ultimate Oracle promises to send the others down a rabbit hole of misinformation.
But Nightwing better hurry because his race is far from over!
This was a horses ass piece of shit book.
At first, the whole cyber-VR thing was okay. It might go somewhere. It was breaking a-lot of reality rules but that’s okay — it’s a comic book after all.
But then this stupid motorcycle race which makes no sense, and winning it means NOTHING except getting to the next issue is just plain bullshit.
YOU COULD HAVE PUT ANY OTHER HERO IN THIS BOOK AND IT WOULD HAVE READ EXACTLY THE SAME!!!
CAPTAIN CARROT, DAREDEVIL, THE HULK, WONDER WOMAN, BADGER!!!
It didn’t matter at ALL who this story was about.
I’m giving this 1 star and if I could give less stars I would.
And a Johnny Romita Jr. cover! I’d love to see what he could do with the character!
The interior art is really good. Though they still can’t get his boots right.
The first story Nightwing in Bludhaven (Yea!) investigating crimes having to do with ‘augmented reality’ devices. Basically that overlay postive images on your reality without a phone being necessary. Like mushrooms.
Apparently instead of being a cop, he decided being a personal trainer was a better occupation for his secret identity.
After nabbing a projection device from a crime scene where he spars with his frenemy cop Detective Svoboda.
Have you by chance met Harvey Bullock…? … I really want to set you two up on a date.
He tests out the device and figure out that it’s pulling these idillic images directly from his mind.
And then the device crawls inside his chest.
I gotta say I really like this new artist - Chris Moonyham. An artist I don’t know. No doubt helped by being inked by Klaus Janson, an artist I do know. He’s got some Gil Kane, some Romita Sr., some Gene Colon. Just a bunch of good art in him (yeah, okay I guess it could be her!).
Dick wakes up late and hungover and next to Barbara Gordon. He has no idea what happened. But he gets a call from his latest client, a guy with a metal arm and an electronic eye who has hired him as a trainer.
He dashes out of the house late for his customer and apologizes while they work out. But the workout discovers a dead boy. It has a VR device attached to his hand.
Of course it becomes a crime scene. And Svoboda arrives.
What are you looking at, six-pack McPretty?
He calls Barbara to ask for some info. She doesn’t remember last night.
He goes home and figures out that it’s some kind of VR tricking him. Barbara not remembering his call clues him in.
But even figuring out he is fighting VR doesn’t help him win the fight!
Okay, Dick figures out how to get out of range of the VR Wyrm he’s fighting, but then Batgirl shows up. But it’s tween Batgirl? What’s up with that?
She sounds like Barbara Gordon, but she looks like Jailbait Batgirl!
LOL! I’d even join Patreon if I could read the ‘Oracle Blog’!
But she does give him a face mask that allows Nightwing to toggle between the Phantasm VR illusions and reality.
He uses them to hunt down the technologist who built these devices.
But while Nightwing is fighting synthetic creations Batgirl is confronted a Russian gang that wants things to go back to the old (no holographic ways).
Batgirl beats them and then teams up with Nightwing.
An interesting new artist on the next issue.
Batgirl has freed Nigthwing of the VR demon implanted inside him. I didn’t… think… you were going to tear it… out of my NIPPLE!
Nightwing fails to track down Wyrm, but when Karna Shifton appears on the news and like it or not becomes Gotham’s only news source Nightwing squeezes a Terminal thug to find out more.
The Terminal thug escapes but then is run over by Batgirl in a Bat-Semi Truck which she gives to Nightwing as a mobile Batcave. It also comes with a cool motorcycle.
Nightwing finally fights Karna who is in fact a virtual monster-like thing. The Wyrm inside her/it tells him that he must do them a favor or else all his friends die.
I know I’m a little fuzzy on this but it’s not all that coherent a story.
But just when you could be comforted by the fact that it’s Nightwing back in Bludhaven fighting human-level crime, we find out that the thing that Wyrm wants is for Nightwing to win a motorcycle race on an island of the coast of Ireland where lots of aliens and gods and heroes and villians come… for a motorcycle race.
And if Nightwing doesn’t win then Vicki Vale and the guy he was doing the physical training with will die. He is supposed to win so that he can plant a virus in the price which is a super-alien-Syri device.
So Nightwing goes into the Cynosure bar so that he can ‘Pledge’ to be in the race. Which means he has to drink out of the skull of the Druid who built the mystical road they are going to race on.
Does this read as lame to you as reading it is to me?
So the race is a Hot Wheels track to hell and several riders try to kill Nightwing. He avoids it.
So there was this girl shooting at Nightwing but when he falls off his motorcycle she picks him up.
Cause she claims she was helping him ALL ALONG!
She’s helping him out as restitution for being a BAD GIRL.
This is some A-level Crap Ass writing.
Nightwing wins the race and gets to ask the ultimate question which is apparently “Can you buy me some time?” Which is of course the correct question and so the ultimate Oracle promises to send the others down a rabbit hole of misinformation.
But Nightwing better hurry because his race is far from over!
This was a horses ass piece of shit book.
At first, the whole cyber-VR thing was okay. It might go somewhere. It was breaking a-lot of reality rules but that’s okay — it’s a comic book after all.
But then this stupid motorcycle race which makes no sense, and winning it means NOTHING except getting to the next issue is just plain bullshit.
YOU COULD HAVE PUT ANY OTHER HERO IN THIS BOOK AND IT WOULD HAVE READ EXACTLY THE SAME!!!
CAPTAIN CARROT, DAREDEVIL, THE HULK, WONDER WOMAN, BADGER!!!
It didn’t matter at ALL who this story was about.
I’m giving this 1 star and if I could give less stars I would.
March 3, 2019
I have mixed feelings about these issues. I like Percy's take on Nightwing, overall, but I miss all the characters and stuff that Tim Seeley had established during his run.
The whole cyberpunk villain thing is old hat, at this point, and he doesn't add much that's new or original to the mix. But it's reasonably well done, for what it is. The art, mostly by Chris Mooneyham, is good overall, and very good at points.
I know that Percy's run on Nightwing didn't last too long past this story, and I'm guessing that all the stuff he set up here probably never got resolved. I'm a little disappointed by that. I'd have liked to see him get at least a dozen or so issues to get a full story told.
The whole cyberpunk villain thing is old hat, at this point, and he doesn't add much that's new or original to the mix. But it's reasonably well done, for what it is. The art, mostly by Chris Mooneyham, is good overall, and very good at points.
I know that Percy's run on Nightwing didn't last too long past this story, and I'm guessing that all the stuff he set up here probably never got resolved. I'm a little disappointed by that. I'd have liked to see him get at least a dozen or so issues to get a full story told.
September 9, 2021
Meh. Why is this 20-ish year old man acting like a grandpa? He's a vigilante that relies on tech to do his detective AND fighting work, so how does it make sense for him to have this anti-techn narrative? Especially since we never saw this come up in the previous issues (feels pulled out of thin air).
The only quality I can find in this one was the interactions with babs, as any interaction with the batfam automatically makes the issues more fun.
//Spoilers//
Why the FRICK does it resolve in a race, in IRELAND?????
The only quality I can find in this one was the interactions with babs, as any interaction with the batfam automatically makes the issues more fun.
//Spoilers//
Why the FRICK does it resolve in a race, in IRELAND?????
May 6, 2019
Uh, what just happened? First I'm reading a fairly standard, if not remarkable, superhero-kinda Nightwing story when out of nowhere we're thrown this weird, Mad Max style motorcycle race? That Dick Grayson has to win to save some C-Level side characters?? And there's a weird, augmented reality villain that can some how also kill you IRL??? It's too much. It's like that old adage of taking off one accessory before leaving the house. There's like two gimmicks too many going on. Just weird.
April 23, 2019
One of the more interesting techno-villains in a while in my opinion, and Dick feels more like a separate character and about his own business and less like Batman lite than I've felt in this whole rebirth incarnation.
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