Nightwing #1 - First pages and the red-eye explained

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Now with added letters.

Found these over on tumblr, I suspect they might be from a preview copy, since they do appear to be scanned rather than released graphic images.

We've seen a couple of these pages unlettered







Image removed as it resulted in more than four pages from a MORE than recent comic.



I like that Dick's confident about things again (even if calling himself "flawless", whilst possibly accurate from any number of angles seems a little presumptive) and especially that the red eyes are not his standard look!





Nightwing page 02 by *Prestegui on deviantART

Comments

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Agreed, that was my (oft-repeated) major issue with Chuck Dixon's Nightwing run, for all that Dixon liked the character (and not in the seemingly destructive way that certain subsequent writers did) he did very little with him to distinguish him from Batman, giving him a crime-ridden city to watch over (Like Batman) and an exceptionally poor set of recurring villains to test himself against. A guy who has faced down Dr Light, held his own for longer than any non-meta in hand-to-hand with Deathstroke, fought the Fearsome Five and the Brotherhood of Evil and has personally thrown explosives at Trigon should not be fazed by the likes of Brutale, Lady Vic and Shrike.

Other than that his role seemed to be to be the fall guy for any team-ups involving Batman to show the new villain de jour was badass by beaing able to defeat him before being taken down by Batdad.

Isolating him in a city just made him come across as a watered down Batman, when he's something else.

This is the reason I like the Peter J Tomasi run, as it showcased what makes Dick different from Bruce. He IS intense, but not to the extent Batman is. He IS sociable and he can call in favours from just about any hero going and DOES when it makes sense to.

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Yeah, Tomasi was good. But he didn't quite establish a successful other life in NY I feel, or perhaps he just wasn't given enough time to build a cast. The museum curator thing never felt right to me- especially considering he's usually considered activity orientated and not particularly academic (though of course when it comes to science, criminology etc. expert but that's vastly different from having a historical based mind and sheesh, to deal with tourists all day...), University wasn't for him. I however did enjoy Tomosai's characterisation immensely (and this makes up for any other flaws to me), and like you said all the connection with the other heroes. The one where supes turns up is my favourite.