Going back to the art quickly, glad to see Benjamin and Friend are sticking around for next issue. It'd be great to stay on the title for a while.  Read Full Review

Hopefully this comic book continues to be exciting like this particularly wild issue. Read Full Review

The ending to this issue sees brothers reunited… but for how long? I think the wait for Nightwing #74's going to be a long one. Read Full Review

Jurgens pulls an interesting twist bringing in Red Hood and a non-Drake Tim Drake Robin. This promises to make the next issue a lot of fun while continuing to raise the personal stakes in this tie-in. Read Full Review

This issue isn't bad, but it feels like an unnecessary waystation on the way to a resolution we've been heading to for a while. Read Full Review

Nightwing #73 stands for everything that bothers me in the modern superhero comic industry. It's a tie-in issue to a larger event that hijacked not only the series' plot, but also keeps the titular character from his rightful place as Nightwing. Despite this, I found myself impressed with Jurgens' fun script and Benjamin's solid pencils and storytelling. Most readers by this point know that we're basically in stalling mode, but for those still around Nightwing #73 overcomes the stacked deck against it. Read Full Review

Nightwing #73 is a vast improvement over the majority of comic book issues in this Ric Grayson Saga. That is all thanks to how Batgirl drives the story of this issue with Ric Grayson under the control of Joker and Punchline. Without Batgirl's involvement the story of Ric Grayson comes across as recycled story telling of when the Court of Owls did the same thing to our lead that Joker has done in this "Joker War" tie-in. As things stand, the sooner we get Dick Grayson back as Nightwing the better this series will be. Read Full Review

Nightwing jumps full into the Joker War, and while I will stick it out hoping to get Dick Grayson back at the end, I do not love it.  The focus and pacing felt off, and while we see what Dicky-Boy (you thought "Ric" sucked?!?) thinks his past is all about, we don't get much else.  The cliffhanger was cool, though, and I will be back next issue, but only because I have suffered through over two years of nonsense in this book and want to be there when things get back to normal. Read Full Review

The action is compelling, and there is a nice setup for conflict in the next issue, especially with Nightwing teaming up with Red Hood and Red Robin to take down Batgirl. Read Full Review

Nightwing #73 is scattershot. There are some genuinely great moments with Babs. Batgirl is, without a doubt, one of the best parts of the Bat Family and she shows off why here. Clearly, this is part of the Joker War run and so there are a lot of other things happening here. I understand there is a bigger story to tell and I will remain hopeful that when the dust settles, things in Bludhaven will be just about our favorite acrobat. Read Full Review

Nightwing has been on a road to nowhere ever since Dick Grayson's identity was erased, but this issue is a low point for a title that disappeared in Batman's shadow a long time ago. Read Full Review

" Knocking over each piece... Until there's only one left ? Who wouldn't ?! I know them all. Bruce, Dick, Barbara, Timmy, Little Damian, and even sad-sack Jason. When you think about it with all i've done over the years... I mean more to them than they mean to each other ! "
- JOKER

Need him to be Nightwing again

This is just still so shit and I hate the concept. It’s barely even about Nightwing. But then, it hasn’t been about him in a long time.

Oh this is such trash. Please let's just get over this already. The art sucked too.

I was enjoying this issue, I really was, but my nitpicky brain is nitpicking too many nitpicky issues with it.

Batgirl's legs are working again after her encounter with the Joker? Ok... maybe this is writers not respecting/editorial not enforcing what happened in someone else's book, or maybe it's just overlooked so that we can have an actual Dick/Babs fight, so I was giving that the benefit of the doubt, but then you get Time Drake being Drake but also not being Drake, and that kinda broke it for me.

I've long had complaints that DC Editorial are lazy (which I know is a total armchair "expert" opinion) but issues like this can't help but reinforce that opinion.

EDIT: The week after this was published, Red Hood #48 was released which showed a meeting between Jason and Dick prior to the final page encounter in this issue. Without any spoilers for that issue... Jason should recognise Dick's new outfit at least. But he doesn't, and I can only assume the reason is bad writing from the writer or bad planning from the editor. Either way, this is just bad. more

I'm sorry but since Dick is not Dick he has become insufferable along with the Nightwings. But when I thought that it could not be worse, Dicky boy was born, something else I feel that the comic goes alone, is Barbara not crippled? Why does Jason have a broken mask? already had the fight with dick? really DC what are you doing I just don't get it.