In 2018, Batman #55 confirmed the KGBeast shoot a glancing shot off the cranium of Dick Grayson, robbing the Bat’s erstwhile ward of his recollections between the demise of his mother and father and that second. He nonetheless had the muscle reminiscence, may nonetheless do Nightwing-esque issues however did not bear in mind courting Batgirl, being a spy, being Batman, any of it.
The duvet of Nightwing #76. Credit score: DC Comics
On the floor, this was ridiculous. Nightwing (and, by extension Dick Grayson) is a slightly well-recognized licensed character that has appeared in a number of different media. The prospect that he wouldn’t return to his spandexed establishment was wildly implausible given the primarily static nature of most licensed characters. This situation lastly permits all that tedious enterprise to be finished, permitting everybody to lastly say, “ultimately, it is over.”
This sense of reduction shouldn’t include any nice sense of pleasure, as it is a grim and workmanlike technique that bought us right here, with a contrived battle between Nightwing and the maybe once more related KGBeast and an equally contrived emotional confrontation with the bartender Bea that had taken within the amnesiac Grayson like a well-toned misplaced pet.
Dan Jurgens is a comic book ebook legend, and his script admirably struggles to make one thing of this pile of scraps and tedium pretending to be a plot. Writing on probably the greatest promoting comics tales ever does not make it easier to when it’s important to match the toys exactly again into their containers with no additional equipment left over. Likewise, Ronan Cliquet, Nick Filardi, and the group at Andworld Design may put solely a lot lipstick on this pig. They skillfully present Nightwing dun moch-ing KGBeast by means of a battle in ways in which Spider-Man would recognize.
The problem right here is that all of it simply feels so … pointless. The hand wringing, the rooftop teardrops … it is all so overwrought provided that it is actually a story of sound and fury signifying nothing. Keep in mind what you knew about Nightwing again in 2018? He is precisely again to that. Whole reset, identical to an Atari 2600. Do you actually need to pay … checking notes right here … 4 bucks for that?
After all, you do not. RATING: NO. JUST … NO.
By Dan Jurgens, Ronan Cliquet, Travis Moore
One bullet robbed Nightwing of his recollections and id. One bullet erased Dick Grayson and changed him with Ric Grayson. Now, with Dick’s true id returned, KGBeast is again with one final bullet for him. Utilizing Bea as bait, KGBeast has made it abundantly clear that this one final bullet is not supposed for Nightwing’s head — this one is aiming to puncture his damaged coronary heart!