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

The difficulty, 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 interchange 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 Might.

There isn’t any 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 provided that one other current, high-profile transfer — Brian Bendis’s Superman takeover — will retain a lot of the rotating artwork group 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. Apart from a fancy dress change and a change of venue, Dick Grayson was not basically 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 stage despite having a run brief sufficient that it appears fairly clear he was by no means known as in to pitch the “subsequent era of tales.”

You possibly can see the preview pages within the connected picture gallery, and the official solicitation textual content beneath.

“THE UNTOUCHABLE: DEEP DIVE!” He is already been shot and stabbed, and there is not any 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 Choose’s rise to energy culminates together with his most explosive transfer but.

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