DC has offered ComicBook.com with an unique preview of Nightwing #40, out in shops subsequent week from author Sam Humphries and artist Bernard Chang.

The problem, which cowl copy guarantees will see Dick face off in opposition to the “Sea Butcher,” begins with the hero moments away from drowning and eye to eye with an enormous beast of the deep. Issues can solely get higher from there, proper?

…Proper?

Humphries and Chang are nearing the finale of their run, with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly approaching board to switch Humphries with for #42 and Michael Moreci filling in on #43 earlier than Teen Titans and Inexperienced Arrow veteran Benjamin Percy takes over the reins with #44 in Could.

There isn’t a phrase but on whether or not Chang, who left Batman Past to tackle Nightwing, will stay within the artwork rotation for the title, though it appears possible on condition that one other latest, high-profile transfer — Brian Bendis’s Superman takeover — will retain a lot of the rotating artwork staff for SupermanAction Comics, together with outgoing co-writer Patrick Gleason.

Nightwing is arguably one of many characters whose big-picture “take” has been least impacted by the final half-dozen years of fixed DC revamping and retooling. Aside from a dressing up change and a change of venue, Dick Grayson was not essentially altered that a lot for The New 52, and usually his books have been pretty well-received throughout that much-maligned period in DC’s publishing historical past. Since Rebirth, Nightwing has been successful story with Tim Seeley choosing up the place his and Tom King’s Grayson left off earlier than handing the baton over to Humphries, who has managed to maintain up the vitality degree despite having a run brief sufficient that it appears fairly clear he was by no means referred to as in to pitch the “subsequent era of tales.”

You may see the preview pages within the hooked up picture gallery, and the official solicitation textual content beneath.

“THE UNTOUCHABLE: DEEP DIVE!” He is already been shot and stabbed, and there is no finish in sight for Nightwing as he is pressured to face off in opposition to the League of Limousine Assassins within the Silver Springs On line casino! In the meantime, the Decide’s rise to energy culminates along with his most explosive transfer but.

Nightwing #40 shall be stocked in shops and on-line on Wednesday, March 7.