The problem with corporate comics these days is that it is rare for any established character to see an end to their adventures. Yet if Nightwing #118 were to be the final Dick Grayson story ever, it would be a worthy one. If you haven't been reading the series, go grab the first volume, Leaping Into the Light. You are in for a treat. And if you have been reading it, get ready for a happy ending. Or the closest thing we can get in modern comics. Read Full Review

This run is going to be one for the ages. Read Full Review

Nightwing #118 is an excellent conclusion to Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo's incredible creative run on this series. The way Dick Grayson defeated Heartless how the trust he has in others and others have in him is what makes Nightwing a top-tier superhero. This will certainly go down as one of the most memorable creative runs from DC Comics. Read Full Review

Nightwing #118 is a very strong final issue to close the book on Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo's tenure on the series, and does so by successfuly putting the character in a better place than he was. Read Full Review

Even if Nightwing #118 is a bit of a fast ending to "Fallen Grayson, like the rest of the run there's a lot of heart (no pun, again!) and character work that remains the strength of Taylor's writing on the series. This is a story arc you'll want to reread in one sitting, and it will assuredly assert your own desire to see Dick and Babs get married and start their own family together. Hopefully, Dan Watters got the memo and the tone and emotional center of the series continues with issue #119. Read Full Review

For all of its flaws, Nightwing #118 and the run in general is a safe story. To its detriment, it introduces and resolves its ideas with overly simple conveniences or contrivances. I gave Fallen Grayson the benefit of the doubt, hoping to see the son of Batman rise to the challenge, but in the end he shrugs it all off. Maybe that's a strength of the character. During the totality of this era, the character has become a somewhat sickeningly positive role model and family friendly hero. Perhaps what bothers me about it is how, even when he's on the run for homicide, it strips away any sense of conflict. Overall, Taylor made a fun, comforting book, at the cost of smoothing over his depth of potential. Read Full Review

Nightwing #118 brings the Heartless "saga" and Tom Taylor's run to a close with a weak, lackluster finale that shows how much of this run involving Heartless was filler to cover for the lack of story. Everything about Heartless, from start to finish, turned out to be a forgettable waste of time against a low-level bully that should have been handled inside of three issues.4/10 Read Full Review

It's good but feels very rushed in almost every aspect. This whole final arc was. Art was amazing.

This was, how can I say, soulless.
Heartless in the end is another pathetic villain who was defeated in the same pathetic way as Blockbuster. At least Taylor recognizes that no one will remember this "big" villain.