#nightwing vol 1

[were-wolverine]

THINKING. ABOUT THIS.

i love babs but… she’s definitely the daughter of a cop.

[sassylittlecanary]

Dick Grayson and his glorious flowing 90s hair + ABBA suit 2.0

This is truly A Look and I respect it.

Dick Grayson: Disney Princess, Romance Novel Cover Model, or Disco Band Member?

[thatstheproblemwithnapkinman]

going back and reading nightwing vol 1 is fucking wild bc it just hits you with the ethnic cleansing and moves on

also dick has that stupid af ponytail and that is just unforgivable

[miravayl]

02.01.2023

DC marathon

I continue the marathon. I'm starting to read the Nightwing volumes. I can't read volume 2 because there is no full normal translation into my language.

Nightwing vol 1

Nightwing vol 2

Batman/Spawn: War Devil (1994)

9/10

Nightwing vol 1 (1996)

10/10

[starvinginbelair]

this tim drake panel in particular!!!

[frogaroundandfindout]

Bette Kane’s costumes (beast boy #3-4)

[umbrellacam]

New Teen Titans (Vol. 2) #6 - post-Terror of Trigon

It's very interesting to me that even in the midst of this earnest team heart-to-heart, when Dick is explicitly working against Batman's teachings of privacy and reserve to try and open up to his friends…he still does not actually discuss the nightmare that he experienced. (Which was a doozy.)

Donna and Gar talk explicitly about what happened in their own nightmares - their evil selves, their innermost fears and struggles. Vic doesn't go into detail like they did, but he does talk about the nightmare renewing his horror with the way he looks, and his fear of losing touch with Vic Stone, the person underneath the cyborg steel.

Kory is the only other person who doesn't talk about her nightmare at all - in fact, she's the only one who apparently hasn't been shaken by Trigon's torture, instead focusing on how they saved the world, knowing that they've helped so many people.

Dick not going into his own nightmare is probably meant to reflect a similar resolve and forward outlook, as the Titans' leader... He does firmly stand behind his decision to leave Robin behind, to become Nightwing and a full-time Titan, which is an obvious rejection of the fears and themes tangled up in his battle against his "evil self".

But that's only clear to Dick himself, and to the readers, who know what he experienced in the nightmare. He doesn't tell his friends about it - maybe can't gut himself and bare his vulnerabilities that far? Even as he's admitting how much it bothers him that they don't talk to each other more on a personal level, how he feels better with them than with anyone else, and wants them to keep getting better... Oh, Dickie.

[gffa]

Aquaman:  Eloquent and lovely speech about seeing his son again after the JLA is finally rescued Batman:  Hn.  Emotions.  No thank you. Nightwing:  [flying tackle hug] THIS IS HAPPENING WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT Batman:  Whatever this is fine I guess emotions are still gross.

[fantastic-nonsense]

i don't know if you've already made a post about this but what comic(s) do you think have the best characterisation of cassandra cain and dick grayson?

My instinctive response to this ask was to just answer "Prodigal and Batgirl (2000)" and be on my way. Instead, I took a little bit more time to think about what my answer should be and what information might be useful to people looking for comics featuring a well-characterized Dick and Cass. So, with that said:

Dick:

Robin: Year One (2000)

New Teen Titans/Tales of the Teen Titans (1980 & 1984)

Batman: Year Three (1989)

Batman: Prodigal (1997)

Titans Vol. 1 (1999)

Nightwing/Birds of Prey: The Hunt for Oracle (2000)

Gotham Knights (2000) #1-12

Peter Tomasi's run on Nightwing (1996)

Batman: The Black Mirror (2010)

Batman: Gates of Gotham (2011)

Listen. All of these comics have their flaws. Many of them feature dated and occasionally poor treatment of various characters/social issues. I'm still holding a grudge against Devin Grayson for her Nightwing run and will until the end of time, and thus the inclusion of Titans Vol. 1 and her first Gotham Knights arcs might seem a bit odd. But I also think this is a pretty solid list of comics that portray Dick in ways that feel consistent and faithful to his core characterization; they're also some of the comics that feature Dick at his best.

Cass:

Batgirl (2000): specifically the Puckett/Scott run (#1-37) and the Gabrych run (#38 & #58-73)

Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive (2003)

Gates of Gotham (2011)

Tynion's run on Detective Comics (2016)

Batman and the Outsiders (2019)

Batgirl Vol. 1 was and continues to be the golden standard of how to portray Cass. She's never reached those heights again. Other comics featuring Cass wish they were Batgirl Vol. 1, but it was a true "lightning in a bottle" run that has yet to be replicated. That being said: Murderer/Fugitive (which takes place during Cass's Batgirl run) is great, and Gates of Gotham features the only solid pre-reboot Cass characterization post-Evil Cass arc.

Post-Flashpoint!Cass is a bit of a different animal, but within the context and limitations placed on her appearances until Dan Didio's departure from DC in 2020, she's best characterized and treated in Detective Comics Rebirth and Batman and the Outsiders.

Honorable mentions: these comics either weren't quite on the same level of "good characterization" to make the list or just didn't highlight the character as much as they could have, but I still really like what the creative team did with them in the space they were given:

Dick: Nightwing (1996) #6 (for being a fun depiction of Dick and Tim's early-days relationship), Teen Titans (2003) #6 (great characterization of Dick. So-so characterization of...several other characters), The Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul (I love Dick's characterization here, and it's one of my favorite Bat books, but he's just not in it all that much), and Batman & Robin (2009), which...I'll get into my complicated feelings about Morrison's B&R run some other time, but generally: I like Dick's characterization in this comic a lot in isolation. It becomes much more difficult to square, however, when you take everything else going on during the Reborn era into account.

Cass: Mariko Tamaki's Shadows of the Bat: The Tower (2021) event and "Sounds" short from the DC Asian Superhero Celebration (2021) anthology. They're nice and have some great Cass moments, but they're either too short (Sounds) or too focused on other characters/the overall plot (The Tower) to truly do her justice.

[keomin]

[psychicbluebirdmiracle]

Ok so after I found that super cute page from Nightwing #96 (2022) I went back and read the first issue in Nightwing and I found this and oh my gosh it's so dang cute I had to share

I love this so dang much oh my gosh

[were-wolverine]

Nightwing (2016) Vol. 1 - Better Than Batman

[goatsghost]

dc i’m begging you make him canonically bisexual i swear to god

[thatstheproblemwithnapkinman]

i definitely didn’t just impulse spend almost £40 on one book bc it was almost 30% off

it definitely isn’t the new nightwing compendium

it definitely isn’t arriving tomorrow

[jalapainio]

Fanon Myths about Nightwing that I learned weren't true as I read Nightwing: A Knight in Blüdhaven (which covers the first 25 issues of Nightwing Vol 2, plus a few extra series such as Nightwing and Huntress or Nightwing and Green Arrow).

Myth: Dick's lived in Blüdhaven his entire time as Nightwing. Truth: Dick only moved to Blüdhaven about a year after Tim became Robin, investigating murders on behalf of Bruce. Before moving to Blüdhaven, Dick lived permanently with the Teen Titans.

Myth: Dick chose not to use Bruce's money. Truth: Dick never even knew about his trust fund. In true Bruce fashion, he never told Dick about the fund assuming he always knew.

Myth: Blüdhaven is Gotham Lite. Truth: Bludhaven is a corrupt city much like Gotham, but the corruptness is different. Gotham’s crime is criminal based, where every crime is a robbery or a murder or any other visible crime. On the other hand Blüdhaven’s crime is more corruption based, where every officer is in the pocket of someone important.

Myth: Dick is either Angry or absurdly happy and there is no in between. Truth: Dick is a very easy going guy, but does not open up about anything. He reminds me a lot of Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man actually.

Myth: Dick is a cop, that is his only job and the only thing he ever does with his social life. Truth: Dick becomes a Cop much much later, and after many many career shifts. He is chronically unemployed, and picks up every weird job he got his hands on that supported his life as Nightwing. In the book (which covers the roughly first ten months in Blüdhaven) he never once becomes a cop, instead juggling a job as a bartender in a cop bar.

Myth: Dick is a public guy with a playboy Dickie Grayson persona. Truth: Dick is a pretty private person and barely dates. In the entire book, he goes on one (1) date with a girl, and only because he kept giving excuses for being Nightwing and felt bad. No one knows if Dick Grayson and he definitely has no public presence.

There is a lot I didn't know about Dick in this book, and I highly suggest you all read it to really get his character.

[frogaroundandfindout]

Dick pulls Bette aside and tells her that while he’s flattered he inspired her to be a hero, he doesn’t think she’s cut out to be a hero even after all these years. Bette reacts with sadness at first but is soon filled with determination (Beast boy #3)