Nightwing, Vol. 2: Fear State

Nightwing (2016)

by Tom Taylor

Il team creativo composto da Tom Taylor e Bruno Redondo continua a raccontare le imprese di Nightwing a Blüdhaven! Ma cosa accadrà quando Dick Grayson dovrà fare ritorno a Gotham City a causa degli eventi della saga Fear State?
Alcune false informazioni stanno flagellando la città di Batman, e Barbara Gordon si prepara a combattere una battaglia contro un hacker misterioso! Inoltre, Nightwing e Red Hood si apprestano a vivere un’avventura insieme: riusciranno a mettere da parte le loro divergenze?

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Batman, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book

152 pages, Paperback

First published June 21, 2022

About the author

Once a professional juggler and fire eater, Tom Taylor is a #1 New York Times Bestselling, multi-award-winning comic book writer, playwright and screenwriter.

Well known for his work with DC Comics and Marvel, Taylor is the co-creator of NEVERLANDERS from Penguin Random House, SEVEN SECRETS from Boom Studios and the Aurealis-Award-winning graphic novel series THE DEEP. Taylor is also the Head Writer and Executive Producer of The Deep animated series, four seasons of which is broadcast in over 140 countries.

He is perhaps best known for the DC Comics series, DCEASED (Shadow Awards Winner), NIGHTWING (nominated for 5 Eisner Awards), SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL (GLAAD Award Nominee), INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US, SUICIDE SQUAD, EARTH 2 and BATMAN/SUPERMAN as well as Marvel's FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, ALL NEW WOLVERINE, X-MEN: RED, DARK AGES and SUPERIOR IRON MAN. Taylor is also the writer of many Star Wars series, which include STAR WARS: INVASION and STAR WARS: BLOOD TIES (Stan Lee Excelsior Award winner). Taylor has written for Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, Boom Studios, Wildstorm, 2000 AD and Gestalt Comics.

He can be followed on twitter @TomTaylorMade.

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tom Taylor is killing it on Nightwing. First up is Robbi Rodriguez, coming in to illustrate the 3 Fear State issues. Taylor manages to get plenty of nice character moments with Batman and Batgirl slipped into this crossover. I'm excited to see Dick and Barbara as a couple again too. Rodriguez's art looks so much better with Adriano Lucas on coloring. I was shocked how much better it looked without Rico Renzi's garish color palettes.

Then there is a team-up with the Red Hood in the annual. This is the kind of work Taylor really shines at. He flashes back to the first time Dick and Jason went out as Nightwing and Robin. It's so freaking good.

The final story is a short story from Tini Howard pulled from Batman: Urban Legends #10. She makes an attempt at a Christmas Carol homage that falls completely flat. She can't decide to make it a hallucination or real and fails at both.

I'm all in with this Nightwing run. I think it's one of the best things Taylor has done.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oracle is apparently a bit of a busybody.
Her software has eyes everywhere and a backdoor into to pretty much everything.
Which wasn't a bad thing when Babs was the only one with access.



But now there's a new player in town calling themselves Seer. They're in Oracle's systems, and they can see what she can see, do what she can do.
To save her friends, it's time for Batgirl to shut down her pet project, and since this is a crossover, Nightwing is gonna help.



I don't know what all was going on with the Fear State event, but as far as crossovers go, this was really good. Someone nefarious has taken over Gotham, but that isn't exactly this, as it mostly dealt with how this Seer character had hijacked Barbara's computer system thing and was using it to take out heroes.
Of course, since this was in Gotham, you get the whole Batfamily. <--which was nice!
Some really sweet stories are included with this one.



I'm really enjoying Tom Taylor's Nightwing so far, and I'm excited to see where he takes this.
Recommended.

[Sam Quixote · Rating 2 out of 5]

For not at all contrived or absurd reasons, Gotham City has been turned into a police state ruled over by The Magistrate, whose militarised private police force are keeping down vigilantes and ordinary people alike. Also in the mix is the mysterious Seer who has managed to hack into Oracle’s network and is using it to spread lies. It’s down to Nightwing and the Bat-fambly to set things right - nobody spies on or beats up the people of Gotham besides them!

I really hate that DC (and Marvel too) always do this - they take a promising new series and immediately hamstring it by ignoring what the first volume was setting up and forcing it to tie into some stupid event they’ve got going on. That’s what they’ve done with Nightwing which pointlessly gets dragged into the Fear State nonsense. And that’s what makes this second book such a disappointing follow-up to the decent first volume.

Not that you need to be reading Fear State to get a handle on the three-part tie-in story here. I had no problems figuring out what was what thanks to Tom Taylor letting the reader know what’s going on - not that it’s all that difficult to grasp in the first place.

And that’s the problem: Fear State is such an uninteresting storyline. Fear is bad, and, uh, so are police states, fake news and deepfakes - thems is things? Fascinating. Because all the big stuff has to happen in the main Fear State storyline, Taylor’s story is a fringe one, told around the main storyline. So all Taylor can let Nightwing and co. do is fight a bunch of one-dimensional robot suits and drones, led by similarly forgettable baddies like Magistrate and Seer, for three issues while occasionally huffing in some Scarecrow Fear Toxin. It’s very weak and unsatisfying. It also seems to be more about Babs than Dick - not great for fans wanting to read about Nightwing in a Nightwing book - and I’m not a huge fan of Robbi Rodriguez’s art either.

Padding out the rest of the book are a couple of one-shots. Blood Brothers sees “Red Hood” murder someone in cold blood - but is it Jason?! Hmm. Oo, my poor bonce in figgering it out. Yeah, the solution is a tired one at this point - they’ve used that particular character way too much recently. Taylor does write some decent scenes between Dick and Jason that expands on their friendship and Cian Tormey/Daniel HDR’s art is pretty good too, though ultimately it’s a throwaway story that has filler written all over it.

And then there’s Tini Howard and Christian Duce’s The Bats of Christmas Past that has Dick huff Scarecrow gas again (how creative!) and goes through a version of A Christmas Carol (how creative!). Duce’s art is solid but I couldn’t have been more bored with this one. Howard is a bad writer and this is a bad comic. Boo! Boo I say! (how creative!)

Is Nightwing, Volume 2: Fear State good? Nay! Will Nightwing, Volume 3 be good? Hopefully - tell DC to fuck off with their synergy meddling bullcrap and it might stand a better chance than this skippable volume did!

[Subham · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was really good omg!

I loved this one!

So it pretty much ties into fear state and Dick goes to Gotham and teams up with Babs and others to take down Seer, the anti-oracle and protect Babs files and its a cute filled story and I love that moment when they kiss and that moment with Bruce where he calls him a son ;)

And then there is a 2 part story where Dick is being targeted by assassins and oh well its an art delight as we see like panelling which fills like one long scene, a pure action scene in a movie and I love it omg its so good to see and then him and Titans sort of teaming up to after the assassins - Gunhawk and Gunbunny and their employer Blockbuster and I love the inclusion of Titans in it, it just shows like Dick is not alone as he has his friends with him! And a fun Jason team up story and whose impersonating as his brother?!

Its an awesome graphic novel and has so many awesome moments and its filled with character moments that will make you smile and for the longest time the Nightwing book was dark but seeing it being this light hearted and bringing back all the relationships and friendships back just puts a smile to my face and I just love it, the art and writing both, just so cute!! <3!

[Khurram · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good partial companion to the Fear State storyline. It was great to see Nightwing in action with the rest of the Bat-family. The exchange between him and Bruce is my favourite for a long time.

The book contains three issues that are part of the Fear State. Nightwing, the Batgirls, and Robin facing the anti-Oricle. It's a great story about brothers between Nightwing and Red Hood. The final story was ok but nowhere near as strong as the others. It's a bit of a tale of Christmas past and present.

A good continuation of the series. I look forward to seeing where things go from here. The book finishes a varient cover gallery and a sketch book of the new Batgirl costume.

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tommy T. can hardly do any wrong, even though this slim volume was more about Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) than NW, really, and the Christmas issue was cute if inconsequential.

[Oscar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good stories

[Kadi P · Rating 3 out of 5]

*More like 3.5 stars than 3.*

There’s a lot of confusion and contradiction on the internet as to what exactly is in this volume. Now, whether that’s because there was an original announcement that was changed before printing or simply a botch up in information, I’m not sure. But I can confirm that this volume collects only issues #84-86 and Nightwing Annual #1 and a short story from Batman: Urban Legends #10 That’s it. It doesn’t collect issues #87-88 as many sources suggest it does. Perhaps this should’ve been assumed by all though, considering issues #84-86 are the Fear State tie-ins; all the issues after are related only to the Nightwing storyline.

And it’s for the reason that these issues were tie-ins that this vol was a bust. Reading this without being aware of the Fear State storyline was not an enjoyable experience and not something I recommend doing. It left me confused like I was missing something (because I was, having not read any of the Fear State storyline in other comic series) and it left me annoyed that the storyline sprung from nowhere, making references to scenes I’d never seen before and completely veering away from the storyline and cliffhanger previously set up in Nightwing, Vol. 1: Leaping into the Light. Even the editor’s notes directing the reader to check out certain Batman issues to find the backstory to Fear State references weren’t enough to dispel my confusion, especially as the plot started at one point, back-pedalled without announcement, and then continued on. It was strange and confusingly non-chronological.

The Fear State tie-in issues felt so different from what was strongly established as Nightwing in Nightwing, Vol. 1: Leaping into the Light and not only because of the abandonment of the previous plot. It was also because of the new artist and the different art style they brought to it. The tone of the story was different, and the pacing was incredibly fast. The humour felt cheap, the romance was too forced, and overall it just had a completely different feel to it than Tom Taylor’s work usually does. And that was extremely evident due to the annual issue and the short story from the Urban Legends issue that were also included in which Taylor’s writing was rock solid again. It contrasted with the earlier half of the vol and resembled Nightwing, Vol. 1: Leaping into the Light so much that it was the perfect example of what the other issues were missing.

The annual issue and the short story from the Urban Legends issue had fun Easter egg references tucked away in the dialogue, witty banter everywhere, and a dynamic past/present storytelling style. They were great reads and genuinely fun. But they were also throwaway filler plots and so can’t be enough to boost this 3 star rating to 4, instead we’ll settle for 3.5 stars and call it a day.

So whilst this had some nice father-son moments between Bruce and Dick, some cute romantic moments between Babs and Dick, and great bonding between Dick and Jason, for the most part this was average. And so I wouldn’t feel bad recommending you skip it completely. And if you did decide to do so, you probably wouldn’t miss out on anything because vol 3 will likely act as if none of the events in this vol ever happened, considering the contents of this vol didn’t have anything to do with where the storyline left off at the end of Nightwing, Vol. 1: Leaping into the Light.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just when he starts getting his feet under the table in Bludhaven, Nightwing finds himself dragged back to Gotham in order to support the Batfamily through Fear State.

I'll be honest, most of the Fear State tie-in didn't register in my mind. I vaguely recall a team-up with Batgirl and some stuff with the Magistrate, but I think I was so annoyed at the already glacial pace of the main story being knocked off course already that I didn't take it in out of spite. They did look nice though, with Robbi Rodriguez stepping in for these three issues on art, giving Gotham a very distinct feeling apart from Bludhaven.

The actual Nightwing issues are neat - the single continuous image issue #87 is ambitious, and gloriously rendered by Bruno Redondo, while Nightwing's triumphant return to the finger stripes in issue #88 was a long time coming. Also included is the Nightwing/Red Hood team-up annual, which demonstrates as usual that Nightwing's is just so much fun when he's interacting with his siblings. The art here is from Cian Tormey and Daniel HDR.

This run on Nightwing has been great, I can't argue that. Take each individual issue under its own merit and they're superb. But when you put them together, I feel like they're less than the sum of their parts, because it's taking forever for anything to actually happen. A three issue event tie-in, a gimmick issue (however clever) and an mostly inconsequential annual leaves you with just one issue that actually advances the plot out of six, and that's really not good enough, even if each issue is solid in its own right. It makes it really hard to rate the collection as a whole.

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nightwing: Fear State collections Nightwing #84-86, Nightwing 2021 annual, and Batman Urban Legends #10.

Okay, I liked this but it was in no way as good as the first Tom Taylor Nightwing volume. The Fear State event killed the momentum from the last volume. Dick and Babs kissing was good, though. I also very much enjoyed the team-up with Red Hood, which is weird because I'm not a fan of Jason Todd at all. The Fear State stuff was fun for what it was, although there were a few too many quips for my taste. It kills the sense of jeopardy but that's a rant for another day.

Three out of five stars. Let's hope the next volume doesn't get derailed by another Bat-Event.

[Rory Wilding · Rating 4 out of 5]

Last year, Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo – after their brief, but excellent run on Suicide Squad began work on another comic book title, specifically about the original Boy Wonder. Having never read any Nightwing comics, the initial volume of their run was my gateway and a great intro for anyone wanting to read Dick Grayson’s adventures in Blüdhaven. However, since Grayson is a member of the Bat-Family, he is roped into a crossover event that began during the main Batman title.

Part of the appeal of this particular run was that it was more about showing the domesticity of its eponymous hero than actually showing the spandex-wearing heroics, taking cue from Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye, as both titles have their own scene-stealing dog for the hero to look after. Tying in with the crossover event “Fear State”, Dick receives misleading information and incorrect directions from Oracle, ones Barbara Gordon didn't send herself, coming to the realisation that Oracle's system has been hacked. As Dick returns to Gotham, he is reunited with his family and together they must find the source of the mysterious Anti-Oracle's transmissions.

Being a change of pace from the initial issues of Nightwing – not least with Bruce Redondo is not involved in the interior art, but does draw the covers – you can tell that Taylor had to adjust to the COGS going on during this crossover. Along with the main event, which is about the Scarecrow wanting to control Gotham using fear, and the mayor’s mission to protect the city with his deal with the Magistrate, you have other titles coalescing with the narrative such as Batgirls, which actually has the conclusion regarding the Anti-Oracle conflict.

That being said, the three tie-in issues that Taylor have written are enough to sustain its own narrative without you having to read the rest of “Fear State”. This is largely down to the top-notch interactions Nightwing has with members of the Family, including a brief pair-up with Batman, who he proclaims Dick as his son. Whilst Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain jump into the fun and have a few one-liners, it is Dick’s relationship with Barbara is what’s emotionally driving these issues as she reclaims her mantle as Batgirl. Also, once you start throwing in Scarecrow’s fear toxin, which is not really a big deal, in how Taylor depicts it, but how it informs the rekindled romance between Dick and Barbara is heartwarming. As for the art itself, which is not as vibrant as Redondo’s, but Robbi Rodriguez’s sharp illustrations, along with Adriano Lucas’ colouring, allow for some cool visuals, specifically when someone’s cape spreads out like a bat’s wing.

After those initial issues, we move onto the first annual of this run, in which Nightwing teams up with Red Hood to investigate a series of murders by someone impersonating as the latter. Contrasting with this narrative, which is drawn by Cian Tormey, we get the Daniel HDR-drawn flashbacks that showcase the sense of brotherhood between Dick and Jason Todd. With Nightwing and one of the Batman annuals that he wrote, Taylor is interesting in exploring the dynamic of the Bat-Family from past to present, and considering the tragedies that these characters have been through, Taylor is always determined to give them a positive outcome, which is always touching.

Concluding the volume with Tini Howard’s issue of Batman: Urban Legends, in which Nightwing goes through his Christmas Carol, which is nowhere as effective as Lee Bermejo’s Batman: Noël, this volume is a successful change of pace for the series, though I’m hoping we get back to Blüdhaven, where the real fun is happening.

[Corey Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I knew nothing about Fear State going into this. I only read this because of the Nightwing run. To be honest I kind of expected the worst, just because of the track record of event tie ins. It does'nt matter if it's a critically acclaimed run, a lot of the times it will just plainly suck. But occasionally the Author will do something fun with it. This is one of those cases.

Not only is it a great story, but it also made me want to check out this Fear State event, so that's a plus I guess. Oh and the art is fantastic too. Bruno Redondo is a fantastic artist and he continues to be in this volume.
Anyways, I'll wrap it up by saying that Tom Taylor can do it all. (And, yes I have heard that his newer stuff is not as good, but I have not read it, so I'm just going to ignore it.)

[Logan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun volume, but not as good as vol 1. So this volume has three stories in it essentially.

The first one is the Fear State tie in story where Dick goes to Gotham to help Barbra Gordon after her Oracle network was hijacked. I'm not really reading the main Batman books right now so I didn't know much of the context for it. It was fun but it did feel more like a Batgirl story then Nightwing, and it kind of ends unsatisfyingly to setup the new Batgirl book. There is a fun backup story (which they repeat, same exact backup story, in two of the issues?) where Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain are teaming up which I thought was fun.

The second story is part of the main arc in Nightwing right now where he has inherited a fortune from Alfred and wants to help Bludhaven which puts Dick Grayson in Blockbuster's crosshairs. It was good, but it did feel a bit fillerly, as one issue is made up of almost entirely of two page spreads of Nightwing chasing down someone who has kidnapped his dog. Bruno Redondo's art is spectacular but it didn't really advance the story so I was a bit mixed on it. The last issue in this portion of the trade does have the original Titans team up which was cool.

The best part is probably the Annual which has Nightwing and Red Hood team up after Jason is framed for murder. It was a really fun and heartwarming story as it shows the two of them as actual brothers rather then two ideologically opposed Robins. Overall, this volume was decent but I would have liked more focus on the main story.

[Chantaal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was afraid this would be a complete crossover event that would leave me feeling unmoored as I have no idea what was going on with Fear State, but the Nightwing issue dealing with it gives just enough info needed to understand this specific story. Thankfully, the other issues that make up this trade are fantastic one shots that focus on Dick and his relationships with others in the Bat-family. I'm LOVING just how Bat-family focused this title is, it really gives an emotional weight that counterbalances all the superheroing.

[seana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dick & Babs <33

[Sid · Rating 5 out of 5]

*seinfeld voice*
-you're crying from reading nightwing?
-bruce calling dick his son, and jason and dick calling bruce dad got to me.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow. Seldom have I seen such a drop-off in quality in a series from volume one to two than this book.

Volume one was a solid gold five star read for me… this one? Definitely not so much.

The problem was that this volume starts off with a three issue tie-in to some huge crossover, which is never adequately explained to readers (such as myself) who aren’t reading the rest of the ‘event’. That’s just bad writing.

It doesn’t help that these issues are drawn by a new artist whose work, while not actually bad, really doesn’t fit the tone of the story.

The only reason this volume just about scrapes three stars is because it also includes the 2021 annual, which was an excellent story with more suitable artwork.

[JW · Rating 4 out of 5]

Collection of Nightwing stories that explore his relationship with various members of the bat family. I enjoyed them all.

[Idan Luisa Sanchez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fear State is going on, which means Gotham is taken over by the government and vigilantes are even more illegal than they were. So, what is Nightwing up to? Off to save the day.

The narration is interesting and the characters have distinct voices. There’s some nice-looking action with dynamic figures. As far as tie-ins go, it seems like what happens here is critical to the side characters and even has some influence on the main plot. It was a fun romp, but totally unrelated to the story set up in the previous volume of Nightwing. Characters don’t develop much. Ostensibly, changes were made in the status quo of Batgirl/Oracle, but whether these changes will stick? Four words: superhero comics always revert.

The art does action nicely, but it feels more expressive than clean. It’s pretty much DC’s house style with some looseness. I prefer the first volume’s art by Redondo. I prefer the first volume overall.

If you want a Nightwing story that does anything new, try a different book. If you simply want more of Tom Taylor’s pitch perfect characterization, this should work well. For four issues at least. The last issue is by Tini Howard, and it fits the Dick, too, but it is even more tangential than the Fear State issues.

[Roman Zarichnyi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Другий том «Найтвінґ: Стан страху» #84-88 Тома Тейлора містить у собі дві сюжетні арки.

Перша арка #84-86 якраз тайіниться до «Стану страху». Події майже не пов’язані із основними. Дік їде в Ґотем і об’єднується з Барбарою та іншими, щоб знищити антиоракула та захистити файли Оракула. Це вийшла досить мила і чуттєва історія. Художником арки є Роббі Родріґез, який має цілком відмінний стиль від попереднього художника. Але він мені теж сподобався.

Друга арка «Дістати Ґрейсона» #87-88 вже знову відбувається у місті Блюдгевен, де Дік стає мішенню вбивць. Тут знову до малюнку повертається Бруно Редонто, і це насолода для споглядання. Найьвінґ переслідує вбивць, які працюють на місцевого антагоніста Блокбастера. Мені подобається включення Титанів до сюжету, бо це показує, що Дік не самотній, оскільки з ним є друзі.

Обидві арки хороші, Тому Тейору легко вдається вести оповідіть із хорошими діалогами та досить цікавими сюжетами.

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nightwing's name is on the cover, but this is mostly a Batgirl adventure amidst the greater Fear State narrative. It's also pretty dull and barely necessary. I guess Batgirl's foe is the Seer? A hacker who has taken over her Oracle systems and might be aligned with the Magistrate. There's some fighting and then it's done. Veryyy big step down from the first Nightwing volume.

There are also a pair of back-up issues, one in which Nightwing and Red Robin bond (a fine read!) and one in which Nightwing gets a dose of Scarecrow chemicals and has a Christmas Carol experience (dumb and played out!). Kind of a bummer volume after the stellar first one.

[Luke Costin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worth it for issue 87 alone. Didn’t care for the Fear State story but even this side quest managed to be pure comic book fun. Hands down one of the best ongoing super hero books right now.

[kesh · Rating 3 out of 5]

fear state is supposed to be read between leaping into the light (vol 1 of tom taylor’s run) and get grayson (vol 2) but man if another bat event interrupts the main arc i’m gonna google maps the nearest rage room

plsplspls let him cook in bludhaven don’t drag my boy back to gotham 🙏🙏

fear state - fun for what it was but i dont fw all these random batgirls in the mix. i’m js conservative like that nah but we don’t need an extension of the batfamily. cool concept ig but why is gotham recreating 1984 again

blood brothers - way more enjoyable. made me crack up a little w jason and dick’s shenanigans. love their rs in this and had a good set up w quick payoff. nothing crazy though

bats of christmas past - again, i don’t care for batgirls even tho i’m a feminist. we had enough - prolly my least favourite read

no more nightwing for abit until fallen grayson, pls tom taylor don’t let me down in the finale 🙇‍♂️

3/5.

[Michael Emond · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an enjoyable read with solid art - with a little glitch in my Hoopla (library app I was reading this on) that put the first 5 pages out of order and thoroughly confused me (why are we starting in the middle of a story?). I don't think I am as ga-ga over Tom Taylor's run on Nightwing as others are but I certainly enjoyed reading this. It just isn't one I would think "I need this in my collection".

One thing that hurt it is the story was part of a Fear event. And I hate events now. As a comic book ready - events piss me off. In this case we get a few "to find out what happened to XX read XX issue XX" so the story feels incomplete. And, as is the case with many of these events...it doesn't feel worthy of a crossover. A woman named Seer got control of Oracle's system and they have to shut it down. Nightwing and Batgirls and Robin do this without breaking a sweat. It is a good story but why does it have to be an event with a bunch of crossovers? Also - it completely disrupts the build up from volume 1 where Nightwing said he would protect Bludhaven...instead he spends most of this volume in Gotham city.

The Red Hood adventure was fun but nothing new (Red Hood is framed for a murder).

The most fun issue was actually the one story not written by Tom Taylor which was a nod to a Christmas Carol and Nightwing gets visited by ghosts of Christmas past/present/future.

All in all - a good time. Despite my complaints I had a good time reading this.

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit disjointed alternatively as I think everything was being pulled in from random places, but the Dick/Jason issue and the Christmas one absolutely warmed my heart and made me gooey inside.

[Izabela Lewalski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Appreciated the brother bonding and christmas episodes because I know some dark things are coming up in the main storyline

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Puxa vida, eu tinha gostado tanto do primeiro volume de Asa Noturna, com roteiros de Tom Taylor, arte de Bruno Redondo e cores de Adriano Lucas. Esse segundo volume foi um balde de água gelada numa fogueira crepitante. Em primeiro lugar, Taylor continua como roteirista, mas precisa se render ao batevento do ano, que é Estado do Medo. Não consegui entender do que se trata esse evento. A Panini devia ter feito uma recapitulação no início do encadernado ou ter publicado essa série do Asa Noturna na revista do Batman já que só quem acompanhou a saga vai entender. Eu não entendi nada. Depois, temos um annual do Asa Noturna em que ele faz parceria com o Capuz Vermelho. Uma história ok comparada com o arco anterior. Por fim, a melhor história do encadernado não foi nem publicada na mensal do Nightwing e nem é de Tom Taylor, mas de Tini Howard, ela fala sobre os Natais de Dick Grayson e tem a melhor arte do encadernado também. A história complementar foi publicada em Batman: Urban Legends. Espero que esse escorregão na qualidade se deva ao batevento chatão e não aos roteiros de Taylor.

[Clint · Rating 3 out of 5]

I appreciate the team-ups with various BatGirls and Red Hood in this, but it’s a shame that vol1’s fresh start is already getting diverted with event tie-ins, especially one as forgettable as Fear State. Robbi Rodriguez fills in for Redondo on internal art and it’s a noticeable downgrade to a much messier, murkier digital art look. The self-contained Annual and Urban Legends stories in the back half of this collection are an improvement, but more above-average than amazing.

[jana (taylor's version) · Rating 5 out of 5]

You can't go wrong with Nightwing comics :)

[Katherine (Kat) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5 Stars