Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Nightwing #6

writer: Kyle Higgins
artists: Eddy Barrows & Geraldo Borges

This is the best thing I can say for this series: the resulting trade paperback of these initial issues may be destined to be one of the essential Dick Grayson stories.

That's a testament both to the enduring potential of the original Boy Wonder, and also to Kyle Higgins' ability to understand what exactly was necessary to make Nightwing's second series seem relevant after Dick ran around as (a very popular) Batman for a few years.

To revert Dick's story back to Haly's Circus might have seemed like a gimmick in anyone else's hands, but Higgins not only realized the overlooked importance of the character's roots, but how the story could then comment on the state of the circus in the modern world as well.

For a long time now, Dick Grayson has been a product of association, whether with Batman or the Teen Titans. When Chuck Dixon launched the first Nightwing series in 1996, he tried to spin Dick's tales as a vigilante trying his best to be the Batman of another pathetic urban landscape, and that worked really well while it lasted, but then it fell apart kind of awkwardly.

What I'm saying here is, just read this series already, even if you aren't a life-long fan of the character. You'll find something that's its own shade of intriguing.

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