As Nightwing continues to defend Bludhaven, his newest rescue mission reveals why there’s loads of hope for Gotham’s sister metropolis but.
WARNING: The next incorporates spoilers for Nightwing #81, by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas and Wes Abbott, on sale now.
Whereas Dick Grayson might have earned his superhero stripes whereas working with Batman to defend Gotham Metropolis as the primary Robin, the unique Boy Wonder has taken on the position to develop into the protector of Gotham’s sister metropolis Bludhaven for a while. Initially drawn to the town for a chance to emerge from the shadow of his mentor, Nightwing has helped the town come a great distance as its personal guardian knight.
And as Nightwing faces off towards a brand new supervillain in Bludhaven, the town surprises him with a show of how far it has come. There could also be hope for Bludhaven but — maybe extra so than Gotham.
As Nightwing returned to look at over Bludhaven initially of the Infinite Frontier period, he confronted a brand new supervillain recognized merely as Heartless. True to the antagonist’s moniker, Heartless focused probably the most weak individuals within the metropolis, incomes him the nickname the Man With No Coronary heart. He made kids into orphans whereas preying on these the town had largely written off as being past assist. And as Heartless targets a bunch of youngsters at Bludhaven’s docks, Nightwing discovers that the individuals he has been defending now have his again as he phases a daring rescue mission.
As Nightwing fights towards Heartless, Tim Drake makes an attempt to guide a bunch of youngsters menaced by the supervillain to security. This performs proper into Heartless’s plan, nonetheless, as he triggers a bomb that traps Tim and the fleeing kids on a burning dock with no obvious means to save lots of them earlier than they’re engulfed by the flames. Simply as all hope appears misplaced and Nightwing, Robin and Oracle look on in horror, a fleet of small, privately owned ships from Bludhaven locals arrive to rescue Tim and the youngsters. As a sly wink to the reader, the names of the ships are most of the fan-favorite comedian ebook creators which have labored on numerous Nightwing runs up to now.
When Nightwing first got here to Bludhaven to research a homicide thriller that was linked to Gotham years in the past, he discovered the coastal city to be much more corrupt than Gotham was, informing his resolution to relocate there in an effort to scrub it up. Dick joined the police pressure in an effort to fight the rampant corruption and graft within the regulation enforcement company, solely to finally resign when his associate discovered his secret id and he discovered the police pressure too compromised for him to repair. Whereas Dick would return to Bludhaven in the course of the DC Rebirth period, the town remained seemingly as corrupt because it ever was.
With Heartless represents how merciless and dismissive individuals will be over the lifetime of the world’s extra underprivileged populations, Dick Grayson simply obtained a reminder of how communities work higher once they stand collectively. It is the individuals of Bludhaven that saved the day this time and have demonstrated that even one of many DC Universe’s most corrupt cities has loads of individuals value combating.