After Tom King and Mikel Janin left this book, DC essentially torpedoed this series. This title showed that you can change the status quo and create an excellent story. Even skeptical fans that hated the idea of not having Dick as Nightwing eventually jumped on board. Now it's barely resembling the issues I was reading a few months earlier. Having grown used to Janin's amazing pencils, the new art is very jarring. And the story feels so disconnected from all the buildup from previous issues that I sometimes feel lost with the incoherent plot. I dunno, I get this series is ending but the fact that it started with a bang and is ending with a whimper is very disappointing. more

So dissappointing it felt like they just pulled the carpet out from under a really good story just so it could get wrapped in a few issues.

I just hope this is NOT a taste of what is to come for Grayson/Nightwing after rebirth.

just skip to the end

Certainly felt a bit filler-y for this issue. Plus not having Janin on art is always missed.

Why did they write Dick as such a DICK? I mean this was really just the worst possible timing in the history of bad timing. Even reading the solicit 3 months ago, while as excited as I was about the possibility of him getting back into the book somehow, I really didn't like the whole "and he's got a lot to say about their future together." While he really didn't have much else to say that wasn't already said exactly as in Grayson 12. They did completely nail how Babs should react in this situation. But I really don't understand how he would even approach her at all if she was doing something as important to as planning a wedding. Like hey Babs is really dressed up nice and planning a wedding MAYBE I should come back some other time. It's not like B&R Eternal isn't in Gotham. He just comes off as such a selfish asshole- which isn't him. On top of that it just seems like Luke Fox was just used as a plot device just to make it that much easier to totally shut down this relationship for a while. I don't discount Luke as a good match or anything but damn when did Batgirl and him ever interact before 2 issues ago? But despite portraying Dick at his absolute worst, I would like to give the book the benefit of the doubt if we actually could see some kind of change in Dick's persona if he ever appears in this book anytime soon or you know a Spyral trick that will really hit him where it hurts. In Grayson you see a version of Dick that is pretty cocky and confident and this issue was that version amplified. I wasn't at all disappointed with the story itself just Dick being in it.

Didn't Dick learn his lesson (or the writers) in Nightwing annual 1?????? Hello???? "Doesn't work if you force it" oh yeah totally forgot.

All of this terrible Dick Grayson appearance totally overshadows what is most important and that was this wedding. Everything that didn't have the triangle romance plot line was fine. It was just a total trainwreck from what just happened in Grayson 12. more

All the feels in the world.

I really liked this character, I've been reading since #1. Even the first arc with the new team was great. Now.... I'm not so sure. I guess Frankie is the arc here, but isn't this a batgirl book? I thought the whole Luke and Babs thing felt forced and random and pretty quick but sure. Plus even the villains seem a bit... villain of the month sort of thing which doesn't seem that compelling. I really like bengal's art especially the facial expressions, I would love to see another silent issue with that art. But, I will probably give it another issue or two to pickup before I may call it quits. more

I keep saying that this was the best issue yet a lot but I think... Yeah this was the best one yet.

They have been teasing that they have been trying to make Dick's version of The Joker or Lex Luthor. It would be kind of funny if the villain in this issue ended up being that.

There is so much going on in each panel it's hard to not be totally engaged for the entire issue.

This story really deserves a mini series at least. But still liked it all the same. Everything about this issue sums up how I feel about it perfectly, which is that it isn't perfect but the best they should do with constraints.

Ha

Art is meh at some times great at others. Storywise expected Gail Simone quality story.

As good as it is it feels like it's missing something to make it great.

Nightwing!

Much better than last month's issue and seems to set up the final issue nicely before the convergence break. / /

Likes: Art is nice overall, the story seems to flow much better and is pretty easy to follow. Cliffhanger at the end was nice and really interested to see what's done in the secret origin story. / /

Dislikes: The ending wasn't really too revealing or a very big shocker. It's kind of strange and makes me want to review the previous issues almost. / /

Lastly- The two (Nightwing/Grayson) secret origin stories I've read have been real let-downs as far as my expectation of revealing some big secret about a character's origin for a title called secret origins. So last shot of reading a secret origin story hopping it will live up to expectation. more

Same reasons as last week --no movement in the story and the art just wasn't good.

Mooney's art on this issue is getting better and better as he does more of these issues. Overall, while it's still a great read, I have the feeling that it's really going to be tough to have some kind of satisfying grand finale going into convergence as promised. But, this book hasn't let me down yet.

The whole batwing storyline has been my least favorite in this series... And you get a heavy dose of that in this issue. What a waste of some nice art at times. The last few issues I keep telling myself maybe something will happen next issue, myself maybe something will happen next issue, and I'm probably going to start saving my three bucks a week after this one. There just doesn't seem to be anything terribly interesting about this book now that Endgame has started rolling. more

"Heh.
Your nifty Hypnos tech trick may make it so I can't see spyral agents' faces...
...But I'd know that ass anywhere."
-Midnighter

Greatest line ever.