Nightwing Year One

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He also wrote many issues of Catwoman and Green Arrow , regularly having about seven titles out each and every month between the years 1993 and 1998. Finally, Nightwing confronts the new Robin, Jason Todd, revealing a good deal about the character and his changing self-image. They're worthy continuations of the Batman story from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's excellent Long Halloween and Dark Victory. In addition to his work in graphic novels, Chuck is currently writing two different series of action novels. It gives explanation as to why Grayson walked away from his famous sidekick role (other than obviously aging out of it, since he was no longer a cherubic teenager), and how he took a brief sabbatical of sorts before segueing into a new identity as vigilante Nightwing.

Year One” has a historical connotation within DC Comics, as it is their way of presenting an origin story with extra adventure added to it. Like telling Robin that he's fired because he shows up late to help Batman due to taking down a villain with the Teen Titans. Without any grit, gore, or vulgarity, this origin story is simply uplifting and inspiring at the end of the day. While Nightwing first appeared in The New Teen Titans during The Judas Contract story arc, Nightwing: Year One showed why he became Nightwing, and that’s very nice. There will be a few familiar faces and even the evolution of a costume, but ultimately it is a well told and satisfying tale.He also checks in on the circus where the Flying Graysons were the main attraction, only to find himself unable to avoid fighting crime. Nightwing: Year One is a storyline written by Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty, with art by Scott McDaniel. The story also boasts the first appearance of Killer Croc, which had always been a mystery to me until I picked this up.

Now, when it comes to comics, Chuck Dixon doesn’t make characters share his political views, and he doesn’t bring up politics at all; I didn’t know he was a conservative for a long time, and I didn’t care because he wrote fun Nightwing and Batman comics that I like. Any hardcore Batman fan will have this book ruined for him the moment he witness the characters attitude and abuse.I read New Teen Titans before I read anything with Batgirl, so I always thought Starfire was Nightwing's unquestionable happily ever after, but Dixon's work on Nightwing and here (as well as some other great stories I've caught up on) make me wonder about his road not taken as well. Like, I'm not entirely sure how old Dick is here but the next thing we see, he's bunking in a motel because he's broke. Breaking away from using Batman as much as possible, we see Dick interact with the greater DC universe, and the story told becomes more enriched as a result. Once Dick begins to see himself in Jason, he can't help but laugh at the sheer audacity of anyone trying to steal the tires from the Batmobile--and it allows him to see what benefits Jason might have as Robin.

While the visual style can be easy to get used to, the character designs aren't that impressive at all. I really enjoy the fact that Superman is this cool uncle figure to Dick Grayson and that Supes has immense respect for Batman's kid partner and likely did far before his dour counterpart. Year One begins with the expanded (and perhaps previously untold, I'm not sure) of Robin screwing up on a routine case and Batman firing him as a result. Unsure of what to do and where to turn, he seeks solace from familiar sources—including Superman, Batgirl, and Deadman. Though Nightwing: Year One is enjoyable overall, little of what's established here is new--nor, at least, is it necessarily attributable to modern continuity.Anyways, I love the way Superman treats Dick Grayson as an equal even here, love the way Dick kinda hits on Lois Lane, and love about a zillion other things about those two characters teaming; just a great dynamic. Throughout the first two thirds of the story, Dixon has also been threading (at an accelerated pace) Batman's discovery of Jason Todd and appointment of the kid as the new Robin.

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. Fans of that title and creative team will tell you the first three years were absolutely electric and very much what the fanbase longed for in a solo outing by Nightwing. I can understand the reasons behind it, but, as mentioned earlier, his partnership (and tensions within the partnership) should have been fleshed out. Case in point, they find a smooth way to work in the post-Crisis explanation for why Dick chose the name Nightwing -- but even that reasoning has been tweaked in recent years due to changes to Krypton's mythology. Robin started out as the polar opposite of Batman to give contrast in a real world sense and to provide the Dark Knight with a colorful distraction to his foes in an in-world sense, but as he evolved he became the most capable team leader in the DC Universe (whereas the Justice League has never had a set leader, Dick Grayson is the Captain America or Cyclops of the Titans) and the hero everybody will rally around in a time of crisis (a plot point Geoff Johns made during Infinite Crisis that I really loved).

Although the quiet scenes are there to give development to Dick Grayson as a character, this book doesn’t have many action scenes in it, although the last few chapters are about him meeting Jason Todd and helping him pass “the gauntlet,” the final test to become Robin. His unprecedented 100-issue run on DC Comics , Robin is considered to be a classic in the comics medium. This graphic novel is also a great way to introduce newcomers to the character since, in pop culture, Dick Grayson is still Robin for many people, despite the fact that there are at least four different people that have been Robin in the comics.