This is was the moment for him to spread his wings and fly away from his nest to become his own thing. A Death in the Family • A Lonely Place of Dying • Arkham Reborn • Bane of the Demon • Battle for the Cowl • Batman and Robin Must Die • Batman and Son • Batman R. C. Comics is run by liberals, and they don’t want him to get royalties from the books he wrote despite him being very popular with Batman and Nightwing fans.

Nightwing is also a clever and careful person, but he is not afraid to get his hands dirty in an all-out brawl.

He also checks in on the circus where the Flying Graysons were the main attraction, only to find himself unable to avoid fighting crime. Chuck Dixon's resume includes thousands of scripts for iconic characters like Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Iron Man, the Punisher, the Simpsons, Spongebob Squarepants, GI Joe and many others. Donning a brand-new uniform, he takes a new name and charts a course that makes the Boy Wonder a man.

While my boy Wally West made history by being the first sidekick to graduate into the role of full hero, years earlier Dick Grayson was the first junior partner in comic book history to really escape his mentor's shadow (which makes sense given that he was the first junior partner period). There are several characters who have cameos throughout the story Lois Lanes questioning of Clark over how he knows Dick is brilliantly done and its nice to see characters in more innocent times especially Batgirl and Jason. On the subject of Scott McDaniel's art, I'll say that he's a very nuanced stylist who can be extremely hit or miss, particularly when he ventures outside his comfort zone, but giving him six issues of Nightwing to draw is like tossing a slugger a hanging fastball right over the plate.En het probleem met ALLES invullen van storylines waar eerst alleen maar naar gehint werd, is toch dat het juist iets van de magie weghaalt. I also enjoyed it referencing the Teen Titans even though they’re not a big part of the story; it also referenced the comics and their accomplishments too. I believe Dixon and (possibly) McDaniel did a fill-in issue on one of the Superman titles around the time Jeph Loeb was on the books that was a great done-in-one Supes/Nightwing team-up. Exciting and historical, it’s largely Jason versus Dick and Batman’s inexcusable folly, with Dick being a beacon of hope through darkness. While Robin: Year One and Batgirl: Year One felt like love letters to those characters, Nightwing: Year One takes it a step further; it feels like a love letter to Nightwing and Nightwing fans, alike.

I think the idea is to convey Bats as being less pissed at Dick for botching his job and more hurt by the fact that he's spending more time with the Titans than his mentor, but Dixon's Batman isn't actually nuanced enough to get that point across. It had its moments every now and then where you can just look at a single panel for a good long time because the craft they put in it, but the panel next to it looks like garbage.

I also enjoyed how it showed Dick moving on from his Robin identity and into a new chapter of his life as a crimefighter. The tensions between Batman and his young protégé are nicely portrayed, as are Grayson's feelings of regret and bitterness following the break. He launched Way of the Rat in June 2002, Brath (March '03), The Silken Ghost (June '03) and the pirate comic El Cazador (Oct '03), as well as editing Robert Rodi's non-Sigilverse The Crossovers.

That may seem like a dumb little detail, but there is always a bubbling movement among the top guns of comics to reference only the really iconic mainstream-friendly stuff in their larger works, which for Dick Grayson means it would be easy for Morrison to act as if he shot straight from Robin to Batman and treat the middle years with vagueness, but flat out in the first issue he makes direct reference to Dick's time as a cop in Bludhaven, and that was just tremendous to me.Dick Grayson is an interesting character; they transitioned him from being Robin because of how the character was being used at the time, but the story reasons for him becoming Nightwing are very interesting and tie back to his need to be a hero. Unable to avoid fighting crime, the man Grayson begins a new odyssey donning a new uniform and a new name. Unsure of what to do and where to turn, he seeks solace from familiar sources—including Superman, Batgirl, and Deadman. Dick Grayson's truly captured in this book as the heroic hot shot charmer that he is, and you see the character begin to come into his own.