Non-spoiler
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
One of my all-time fav characters is Richard (Dick) Grayson: aka the first Robin, aka Nightwing, aka the second Batman.
If you don’t know much about this character or aren’t big into DC, Dick Grayson was a young acrobat in Haly’s Circus. In Gotham, his parents/the Circus owner (depending on the version) refused to pay protection money to a mob family and during a performance that Bruce Wayne (Batman) was at, the trapeze was compromised by the mob and Dick’s parents fell to their deaths. The young orphan was taken in as a ward by Bruce, and when Dick found out his new guardian was Batman, he became the first Robin.
In this series Dick Grayson’s (Nightwing) past with Haley’s Circus is coming back in a way he never expected. It’s a mystery plot the sidekick to the World’s Greatest Detective must figure out on his own. (However this story is connected to what Batman is doing in “A Court of Owls” but I recommend reading Batman vol 1 after as it spoils pretty much the whole plot to Nightwing vol 1).
I love backstory plot lines, and this one was done well: completely changing the perspective without changing the integrity of the original backstory. The motivation behind his parents deaths is different, but not in a way that doesn’t fit in with the backstory we’ve always known for The Flying Graysons.
The art isn’t my fav ever but I love how they do all these images of Nightwing doing flips (see second picture). All the action sequences are done really well.
However, the issues are a little slow at first. The villain isn’t very interesting until you find out who it is and even then I don’t think there was enough set up in the beginning for it to have a profound effect, especially because (as far as I could find) this is a new character to the DC universe. But I still recommend this comic line as they get much better in vol 2 (review coming soon!).
I also don’t love the red costume as I’m a sucker for the classic blue.
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