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scans_dailyIt started in October 2024 - it's been seventeen issues and one annual.
It's the Cirque, which Dick'd encountered as Robin, having designs on him and Blüdhaven.
In issue #132, he'd confronted the Cirque's representative Olivia Pearce - and seen her face.
The fight between Blüdhaven's hero and the CEO of the company that'd given its police laser guns and jetpacks was on the news.
" So nice to see you[, Nightwing]. And for you to see me. "
Olivia echoed the end of the run's first issue: " .. a bird in the circus tent..
Nightwing completed the picture the Zanni and Olivia staged:
The Zanni ended the issue on a taunt.
The next issue, #133, was the stoked-by-the-Cirque state of Blüdhaven and Nightwing.
The Martian Manhunter, during the Justice League's appearance in #130, had thought he'd seen something.
Now that thing was more apparent, ' [had] come to Blüdhaven..
' .. for the city's children. '
(Giving Blüdhaven's police laser guns and walking tanks to fight its supercriminals made the city's streets more like a warzone, making the city's kids mentally more receptive to the Cirque's call.)
Dick talked with his half-sister Melinda, who'd recently lost her seat as Blüdhaven's mayor:
(Melinda's leaving is in part her recovery from the trauma Olivia'd inflicted at the end of #124.)
In Titans Tower, Dick considered himself and Bryce Moran - the Blüdhaven boy who'd been one of the thieving Teddies, who'd seen Nightwing as an inspiration, who'd ended up with Kryptonian physiology thanks to the fifth-dimensional Nite-Mite, who'd been Nightwing's sidekick Nightwing-Prime, who'd been shot with Kryptonite by the Cirque and now lay recovering.
Barbara took Haley the dog for a walk.
After she left, J'onn entered to discuss the threat to Blüdhaven.
Dick told him about the Cirque and the Zanni who " wants me to follow him there. "
" Then that is a thing you must not do. "
" .. I have no choice. "
(That's a nice distinguishing of " Martian vision ".)
J'onn's answer was the mythopoetic sort you more often get with magic:
The Zanni reveled in Nightwing entering his world.
There, Nightwing met what seemed to be one of the children taken: " .. I'm here to take you home. "
" But we are home. "
It was Olivia in her old Colombina outfit.
J'onn thought about Nightwing in the Zanni's world: ' He is an experienced, skillful hero. '
In issue #134, Nightwing followed Olivia to the Zanni.
" You made it! "
" Nothing to say about how they've been changed? "
" .. [with] your beloved city of Blüdhaven. "
(Carnivals are spectacle enough that they would fall within the Zanni's proclaimed domain.)
Blüdhaven felt the Zanni's throw:
" Your throw, Nightwing. " said Olivia.
" You can aim to minimize casualties, of course..
Nightwing questioned the game..
.. and then readied himself to play.
(" Coconut Shy " is a form of the game.)
The transformed children swarmed Nightwing.
Nightwing watched the Zanni watching his throw.
" What is this?! "
" A Nite-Mite soup grenade. "
(What happened was something like " Nightwing brought his arm behind his back for the throw, dropped the ball, palmed the soup grenade out of a convenient costume pocket and threw it, with neither Olivia nor the Zanni noticing because of their swarming children. ")
Nightwing grapneled over to the Zanni.
(The Zanni is the Vyndktvx to Nite-Mite's Mr. Mxyzptlk.)
" You're wrong. " Olivia interjected.
" You have to take everything, don't you? " cried the woman who still felt something about Robin and Batman defeating the form of the Cirque she'd been Colombina in.
She hit Titans Tower.
In this month's issue #135, Nightwing-Prime woke up and saved himself and the bunny Night-Hare.
Batgirl and the Martian Manhunter were helping in Blüdhaven - Prime dropped Night-Hare off with the former, explaining the Zanni and the Cirque to her.
" How.. do you know all that? "
Inside the Cirque's tent, the circus was disrupted.
The children became themselves again - Nightwing tried to lead them out.
" There's a ladder through here. " imagined Nightwing.
Up the ladder the children and Nightwing went - the Zanni, having made himself more monstrous, following.
The Zanni went psychological: " You were always destined to join me here in the Cirque, Nightwing.
" You were always more of an idea than you were flesh and blood. "
" A Nightwing is the thing that's kicking your %@#! "
Prime gave Nightwing and the kids the cover they needed to get out.
The Zanni didn't think the kids were escaping he and the Cirque.
Nightwing-Prime's response to that was to destroy the escape ladder.
(This year's Nightwing Annual had had Olivia, speaking for the Zanni, bemoaning superheroes keeping the world safe with their fantastic feats as " the circus sanitized. ")
Nightwing and the kids were outside, with no way back in: " The circus music.. it's stopped. "
The Cirque was gone from Blüdhaven - J'onn couldn't make another portal to it - leaving only the aftermath of the Zanni's game.
Afterwards, one later night, Nightwing got pinged on the signal device from the Captain Hallow two-parter.
" .. sorry? "
She told him about " The monster in our dreams..
" When we're asleep he tries to scare us. Tries to get us.
" Only it doesn't work anymore.
" There's a superhero who lives in our dreams now. "
Nightwing processed Prime - Bryce - finding happiness in a never-ending battle.
The issue ended on the next arc's set up:
Bisogni was the man who'd electorally beaten Melinda. Nightwing'd reflected on that in #130..
.. and left him a message:
Now, the mayor reflected on that and the opportunity before him.
(Pagecount's 2 and a little more than 2/3rds from November 2025's #132, just under 7 and 1/3rd of 22 from December 2025's #133, just under 7 of 22 from January 2026's #134, just above 3 and 9/10ths of 22 from February 2026's #135, and 2 from September 2025's #130.
Writing's Dan Watters, art's Dexter Soy (#130, #132, #135) and V Ken Marion (#133, #134), colors're Veronica Gandini, and letters're Wes Abbott.
Publisher's DC.
The next arc, Blüdhaven Lore, will be Watters' attempt at the self-containedness of Daredevil: Born Again - " how it slots indelibly into the timeline of Daredevil, moves his story forward, yet can be picked up with little to no knowledge of him, and delivers a full, satisfying tale. "
It'll be " done-in-one stories with an overarching narrative.. a different length, a different shape, [giving] a different rhythm to this book, but similarly giv[ing] us a structure that feels agile, letting us explore different ideas about the city and Nightwing's relationship to it. "
Daredevil-ization's nothing new for Nightwing - Bisogni's maybe the third attempt to give him a Kingpin-type?)
It's the Cirque, which Dick'd encountered as Robin, having designs on him and Blüdhaven.
In issue #132, he'd confronted the Cirque's representative Olivia Pearce - and seen her face.
The fight between Blüdhaven's hero and the CEO of the company that'd given its police laser guns and jetpacks was on the news.
" So nice to see you[, Nightwing]. And for you to see me. "
Olivia echoed the end of the run's first issue: " .. a bird in the circus tent..
Nightwing completed the picture the Zanni and Olivia staged:
The Zanni ended the issue on a taunt.
The next issue, #133, was the stoked-by-the-Cirque state of Blüdhaven and Nightwing.
The Martian Manhunter, during the Justice League's appearance in #130, had thought he'd seen something.
Now that thing was more apparent, ' [had] come to Blüdhaven..
' .. for the city's children. '
(Giving Blüdhaven's police laser guns and walking tanks to fight its supercriminals made the city's streets more like a warzone, making the city's kids mentally more receptive to the Cirque's call.)
Dick talked with his half-sister Melinda, who'd recently lost her seat as Blüdhaven's mayor:
(Melinda's leaving is in part her recovery from the trauma Olivia'd inflicted at the end of #124.)
In Titans Tower, Dick considered himself and Bryce Moran - the Blüdhaven boy who'd been one of the thieving Teddies, who'd seen Nightwing as an inspiration, who'd ended up with Kryptonian physiology thanks to the fifth-dimensional Nite-Mite, who'd been Nightwing's sidekick Nightwing-Prime, who'd been shot with Kryptonite by the Cirque and now lay recovering.
Barbara took Haley the dog for a walk.
After she left, J'onn entered to discuss the threat to Blüdhaven.
Dick told him about the Cirque and the Zanni who " wants me to follow him there. "
" Then that is a thing you must not do. "
" .. I have no choice. "
(That's a nice distinguishing of " Martian vision ".)
J'onn's answer was the mythopoetic sort you more often get with magic:
The Zanni reveled in Nightwing entering his world.
There, Nightwing met what seemed to be one of the children taken: " .. I'm here to take you home. "
" But we are home. "
It was Olivia in her old Colombina outfit.
J'onn thought about Nightwing in the Zanni's world: ' He is an experienced, skillful hero. '
In issue #134, Nightwing followed Olivia to the Zanni.
" You made it! "
" Nothing to say about how they've been changed? "
" .. [with] your beloved city of Blüdhaven. "
(Carnivals are spectacle enough that they would fall within the Zanni's proclaimed domain.)
Blüdhaven felt the Zanni's throw:
" Your throw, Nightwing. " said Olivia.
" You can aim to minimize casualties, of course..
Nightwing questioned the game..
.. and then readied himself to play.
(" Coconut Shy " is a form of the game.)
The transformed children swarmed Nightwing.
Nightwing watched the Zanni watching his throw.
" What is this?! "
" A Nite-Mite soup grenade. "
(What happened was something like " Nightwing brought his arm behind his back for the throw, dropped the ball, palmed the soup grenade out of a convenient costume pocket and threw it, with neither Olivia nor the Zanni noticing because of their swarming children. ")
Nightwing grapneled over to the Zanni.
(The Zanni is the Vyndktvx to Nite-Mite's Mr. Mxyzptlk.)
" You're wrong. " Olivia interjected.
" You have to take everything, don't you? " cried the woman who still felt something about Robin and Batman defeating the form of the Cirque she'd been Colombina in.
She hit Titans Tower.
In this month's issue #135, Nightwing-Prime woke up and saved himself and the bunny Night-Hare.
Batgirl and the Martian Manhunter were helping in Blüdhaven - Prime dropped Night-Hare off with the former, explaining the Zanni and the Cirque to her.
" How.. do you know all that? "
Inside the Cirque's tent, the circus was disrupted.
The children became themselves again - Nightwing tried to lead them out.
" There's a ladder through here. " imagined Nightwing.
Up the ladder the children and Nightwing went - the Zanni, having made himself more monstrous, following.
The Zanni went psychological: " You were always destined to join me here in the Cirque, Nightwing.
" You were always more of an idea than you were flesh and blood. "
" A Nightwing is the thing that's kicking your %@#! "
Prime gave Nightwing and the kids the cover they needed to get out.
The Zanni didn't think the kids were escaping he and the Cirque.
Nightwing-Prime's response to that was to destroy the escape ladder.
(This year's Nightwing Annual had had Olivia, speaking for the Zanni, bemoaning superheroes keeping the world safe with their fantastic feats as " the circus sanitized. ")
Nightwing and the kids were outside, with no way back in: " The circus music.. it's stopped. "
The Cirque was gone from Blüdhaven - J'onn couldn't make another portal to it - leaving only the aftermath of the Zanni's game.
Afterwards, one later night, Nightwing got pinged on the signal device from the Captain Hallow two-parter.
" .. sorry? "
She told him about " The monster in our dreams..
" When we're asleep he tries to scare us. Tries to get us.
" Only it doesn't work anymore.
" There's a superhero who lives in our dreams now. "
Nightwing processed Prime - Bryce - finding happiness in a never-ending battle.
The issue ended on the next arc's set up:
Bisogni was the man who'd electorally beaten Melinda. Nightwing'd reflected on that in #130..
.. and left him a message:
Now, the mayor reflected on that and the opportunity before him.
(Pagecount's 2 and a little more than 2/3rds from November 2025's #132, just under 7 and 1/3rd of 22 from December 2025's #133, just under 7 of 22 from January 2026's #134, just above 3 and 9/10ths of 22 from February 2026's #135, and 2 from September 2025's #130.
Writing's Dan Watters, art's Dexter Soy (#130, #132, #135) and V Ken Marion (#133, #134), colors're Veronica Gandini, and letters're Wes Abbott.
Publisher's DC.
The next arc, Blüdhaven Lore, will be Watters' attempt at the self-containedness of Daredevil: Born Again - " how it slots indelibly into the timeline of Daredevil, moves his story forward, yet can be picked up with little to no knowledge of him, and delivers a full, satisfying tale. "
It'll be " done-in-one stories with an overarching narrative.. a different length, a different shape, [giving] a different rhythm to this book, but similarly giv[ing] us a structure that feels agile, letting us explore different ideas about the city and Nightwing's relationship to it. "
Daredevil-ization's nothing new for Nightwing - Bisogni's maybe the third attempt to give him a Kingpin-type?)
