Nightwing issue 1 the New 52

I have to say, growing up with Batman, the one with Adam West. And then again the Animated Series from the early 90's. Its hard for me to see Dick Grayson all grown up and out on his own, and hot! It does make sense for him to grow up eventually, and as he an Batman had there altercations, it makes sense he would want to fly the nest and do his own thing. And for those who know most of his adult life he has done exactly that. He became Nightwing.

For those who don't know what the grown up Boy Wonder looks like, this was the costume design before the New 52 revamp. Which for me always brought up alot of questions, with no utility belt where oh where did that boy hide all his gadgets?

So Nightwing has once again received a Solo title, dubbed as such, Nightwing. So here is my review of Nightwing issue 1 of the New 52.

Warning will be doing a full review of the storyline for Nightwing. If you do not want to spoil it for yourself, I suggest you pick up the copy, read it then come back and check my review!!!



The cover brilliantly features our now Man Wonder, Nightwing. As you can see they have upgraded his suite and changed his color scheme a little. Where as the old outfit comprised seemingly of a really dark blue color and a light blue color, this new outfit, features him in black with the red bird symbol. Which personally I think fits better as red was one of his main colors as Robin.

Plot:

Nightwings begins with our hero, on the rooftops of Gotham City. As he begins to go from rooftop to rooftop, he narrates his most recent escapades. After the "death" (disappearance) of Batman, all of his previous now grown up boy wonders, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake, decided the world cannot be without Batman. So they all duked it out and Dick ended up being the victor, and taking Batmans place for a while, with Bruce Wayne's son Damian Wayne as Robin.

So in Nightwing, as our hero narrates he tells us how as Batman, Gotham threw its worst at him and he came out stronger in the end. Eventually his travels leading him to a monorail where a psycopath is killing passengers. Nightwing swoops in saying nothing can scare him anymore and takes out the thug. As he travels through the city afterward, he comes across a circus tent, informing us that this was the same circus that he and his parents used to travel with. And how he has visited them in other cities and states, but never in Gotham after the death of his parents. And yet he thinks him self strong enough to fight the fear of going there.

We are then taken to a scene of a bus dropping off passengers. A man walking of the bus, wearing shades at night gets stopped by some thugs demanding toll for passing though there sidewalk. They begin to attack and the man fights back, with trained assassin like abilities. Once there all down, the man calmly walks away stating how he likes Gotham.

Back to Dick Grayson in his loft its now morning and he talks of the differences between Batman and himself. And ends up at the circus.

Meeting up with old friends from the past, and seemingly an old girlfriend from the past and her new boyfriend. They invite him for a swing through the tent top like in the old days. He gets up there and they are amazed at the talent for it he has retained (none of them knowing he was once the boy wonder, or now Nightwing). So realizing he is supposed to be "out of touch" with his skills he fakes a fall into the net. After hanging around and catching up with his friends he heads back for the night. When he is attacked by an unknown character wearing all black and a specialized mask. He also wields two claws at the end of his hands. Some cops intervene giving Dick the chance to change into Nightwing, then the two begin to trade blows. The mysterious man informs Nightwing he doesn't know who hes protecting, saying Dick Grayson is the fiercest killer in all of Gotham and doesn't even know it. Obviously Nightwing being Dick, is very confused from this statement. There fight backs up to a water tower on a rooftop and the assassin blows a whole in it, causing a fount of water to burst forth and hit Nightwing, sending him crashing down to the street below with the assassin not far behind.

This is where the comic closes.

I love the art in this comic book, a lot of artist these days are following in suite with comics such as Witchblade and Fathom as far as style. This issue still has a certain classic comic style to it.

I think this issue did a good job of setting the fans up with where Dick is currently at in his life, and the type of character he has become.

I love the new outfit, but again curious, as he is seen using grappling hooks to traverse the rooftops, with no utility belt where does he keep his gadgets?

If you are a Boy Wonder grown into man Nightwing fan. Than I suggest you check out this issue from the new 52. I have always been a fan of Nightwing, but that's only because I had the hots for him, haven't really taken the time to read about him much. But I find his character interesting, and I myself will be reading more!

Next up Catwoman!