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Nightwing #125 is dead Blüdhaven police.
Blüdhaven's police've been part of the current run - the work of its ultimate villains (so far) has included giving those cops laser guns and jetpacks to deal with crime.
Issue #124 had Blüdhaven receiving more - walking tanks - and sending them against the city's gangs.
#125 opens not on what that climaxed in, but after with part of what came before - one of the lasers-and-jetpacks cops.
Walking home, he heard someone.
" Who's there? "
He recognized the figure in the fog -
- and was killed despite his plea.
Blüdhaven police commissioner Maggie Sawyer - who got the job in the preceding run - got a call shortly thereafter.
At the scene of Dietrich's death, she and others considered his body: " One in the gut. Five in the back. "
" Anyone inform his family yet? "
Maggie took that upon herself - went to the Dietrichs' house.
The dead man's wife said " Oh. "
She went on to describe her late husband: " [He] always did things by the book. "
(He was the jetpack cop from the end of #120.)
" What do you mean, Mrs. Dietrich? "
" He'd do exactly what was allowed. "
" .. I wonder if I will. "
Outside the Dietrichs' house, Nightwing met Maggie: " So what now, Sawyer?
" Send some more walking tanks after street kids? "
Maggie responded along the line she'd taken in #122:
(There's never yet been a definition of " ordinary people " without some kind of self-aggrandizing exclusion.)
He threw her a device that'd signal: " If you need me, holler. "
Later, thinking about the current state of the Blüdhaven Police Department, Maggie got a call:
" They used copper bullets, didn't they? "
That not publicly known fact got Maggie to visit her retired caller.
Holm's answer continued on Blüdhaven.
He put a name to the enforcer..
(Holm's thinking that Dietrich's actions, however likely Captain Hallow's law would cover them, might still have got him judged a law-breaker.)
The Captain came in with the fog: " Sergeant Holm.
" Stop. "
" I'm there. " came Nightwing into the scene, knocking the Captain over.
(A ghost who, when slipping out of an enemy's grasp, leaves a solid cloak behind.)
(Pagecount's 7 and just above 3/10ths of 22 from April 2025's Nightwing #125.
Writing's Dan Watters, art's Francesco Francavilla, and letters're Wes Abbott.
Publisher's DC.)
Issue #124 had Blüdhaven receiving more - walking tanks - and sending them against the city's gangs.
#125 opens not on what that climaxed in, but after with part of what came before - one of the lasers-and-jetpacks cops.
Walking home, he heard someone.
" Who's there? "
He recognized the figure in the fog -
- and was killed despite his plea.
Blüdhaven police commissioner Maggie Sawyer - who got the job in the preceding run - got a call shortly thereafter.
At the scene of Dietrich's death, she and others considered his body: " One in the gut. Five in the back. "
" Anyone inform his family yet? "
Maggie took that upon herself - went to the Dietrichs' house.
The dead man's wife said " Oh. "
She went on to describe her late husband: " [He] always did things by the book. "
(He was the jetpack cop from the end of #120.)
" What do you mean, Mrs. Dietrich? "
" He'd do exactly what was allowed. "
" .. I wonder if I will. "
Outside the Dietrichs' house, Nightwing met Maggie: " So what now, Sawyer?
" Send some more walking tanks after street kids? "
Maggie responded along the line she'd taken in #122:
(There's never yet been a definition of " ordinary people " without some kind of self-aggrandizing exclusion.)
He threw her a device that'd signal: " If you need me, holler. "
Later, thinking about the current state of the Blüdhaven Police Department, Maggie got a call:
" They used copper bullets, didn't they? "
That not publicly known fact got Maggie to visit her retired caller.
Holm's answer continued on Blüdhaven.
He put a name to the enforcer..
(Holm's thinking that Dietrich's actions, however likely Captain Hallow's law would cover them, might still have got him judged a law-breaker.)
The Captain came in with the fog: " Sergeant Holm.
" Stop. "
" I'm there. " came Nightwing into the scene, knocking the Captain over.
(A ghost who, when slipping out of an enemy's grasp, leaves a solid cloak behind.)
(Pagecount's 7 and just above 3/10ths of 22 from April 2025's Nightwing #125.
Writing's Dan Watters, art's Francesco Francavilla, and letters're Wes Abbott.
Publisher's DC.)
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