Nightwing

• Title: Nightwing #118
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• Writer: Tom Taylor
• Artist: Bruno Redondo

“Fallen Grayson” concludes with our hero taking on Heartless first as Dick Grayson (publicly shattering his smear campaign) and later as Nightwing. While we get appearances by the Bat-Family and their search for the missing children, most of this happens off panel with the focus of the comic back on its star and the criminal who has attempting to take everything from him. Hell, the baddies even deny Dick getting justice for his parents and shooting Dick’s dog!

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• Title: Nightwing #117
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• Writer: Tom Taylor
• Artist: Bruno Redondo

Nightwing #117 ends Dick Grayson‘s sabbatical in Nanda Parbat training with Deadman. Sadly, in what feels like a missed opportunity, we only get a handful of panels of Batman standing in for Nightwing (along with a joke about how he “quipped twice” to keep the cover). In the mountains, Dick uncovers a truth that the recent tragedy brought to the surface (along with being poisoned and the stress of being framed for murder) allowing him to take the leap (literally) and the journey back to Bludhaven. 

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• Title: Nightwing #116
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• Writer: Tom Taylor
• Artist: Bruno Redondo

Nightwing #116 quickly skips over the part of this story was most concerned with. We get Dick Grayson’s recovery and the equivalent of a montage to get him out of the country and on his quest to the Himalayas. While his friends are ready to stick up for him an even allow their secret identities to be exposed to save his own, Dick is more concerned with recovering what he’s lost as Nightwing than clearing his name (at least for now) which plays out similarly to the  Bruce’s focus in Batman: Bruce Wayne – Murderer?

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• Title: Nightwing #114
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• Writer: Tom Taylor
• Artist: Bruno Redondo

Kicking off a new five-issue arc, Nightwing #114 catches up with our titular character in the mountains looking to recover something he’s lost. Intercut with these sequences are flashbacks to recent events which begin to slowly tease what eventually led Dick Grayson into the wild. The issue does what it sets out to do, both in starting the slow burn of events back home and giving us a current Dick Grayson looking to find himself once more.

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