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Category: Nightwing

  • Nightwing 3 (January 2012)

    Almost there… almost there. Higgins’s Nightwing writing is improving by leaps and bounds. Though the soft cliffhanger is weak and there’s a big irregularity in the timeline (Dick’s parents were alive “five years ago,” meaning Batman’s been through three Robins in four years in the new DC universe?), it’s a decent issue. Barrows and new…

  • Nightwing 2 (December 2011)

    Nightwing might be a little better. I mean, not a lot, but a little. Barrows, for example, gets positively ambitious when it comes to page layouts. Maybe he’s been reading some eighties Batman, since Higgins is still ripping them off. Two big developments this issue—first, Dick Grayson now owns Haly’s Circus. Not sure if he…

  • Nightwing 1 (November 2011)

    From the cover of Nightwing, it looks like DC’s employing everyone in the Rob Liefeld school of not understanding human anatomy. Of course, at least Eddy Barrows gets a little better in the comic itself. Not much, but a little. The problem with the book isn’t Barrows, of course. It’s Kyle Higgins. He read some…