I liked both issue 119 and 120 of Nightwing. Seems solid so far. I really really like Absolute Wonder Woman and Batman, but perhaps i'm a bit of an edgelord. Superman I'm not a fan of so far (although it's only been one issue 😅)

I love nightwing glad to find a channel who loves nightwing to I have to subscribe!!!

Yeah I agree. They need to not have any of that stuff in a few comics and see what happens

So, I confused Batman and Detective Comics in this video. Chip Zdarsky is the one introducing the long lost half-brother, which I still hate, not Tom Taylor. However, I still stand by what I said that Taylor seems to be doing the same thing that he did with Nightwing and going back to re-contextualize Bruce’s past, so we’ll see how this continues…

Im in the exact same boat at Marvel Zeb Wells ASM made me want to stop reading it, and ASM 61 didnt impress me either. The new Ultimate universe and Absolute universe's are very mid to me as well.

Moon knight represent!!!

I love him but I just enjoy his character like normal person without being weird

I'm so cautiously optimistic about this run! In one issue he did more than Taylor's entire run!!

Also correction: Nightwing has been assaulted 3 times. He was groomed as a teen by an older woman to try get to Bruce. A woman he still pines for and credits with starting his obsession with red heads which... ew. Way to ruin his later romances. By the shapeshifter mirage. Kori was wildly out of character here for blaming him when shes also a victim of such acts. And then Tarantula.

Ive literally stopped reading Nightwing since the Devon Grayson run because they just turned my favorite character from a sweet demi sexual leader with amazing ethics and optimism into a himbo man whore. I hate it. He even gets dumbed down for his relationship with Barbara. He and Kori were still the best and everyone else either of them were with isnt as good. The fact they keep molesting him too... like damn, even Powergirl and Koriand'r who were always sexualized that didnt take over their personality. (Kori got a little of it in that awful amanda conners series) Powergirl was never assaulted because of it. I really hope the new Waters run with my favorite Dexter Soy stays good and redeems the character. I just dont want to read soft core porn with a nightwing skinsuit.

37:57 that's not what fridging is Fridging is in cases like the killing Joke where they did something to Barbara that effected her character in the long run in a story that wasn't even hers, they never focused on how that effected her during the story and only cared about how it affected batman. And when they kill a female character a cheap un impactful death sometimes even off screen just for the male. And what Barbara said in that panel was simply a joke.

for me the power scaling is bad , this version of nightwing is weak. bro solved 0 difficult cases. bro is kindda incompetent . he didnt need a sister.

I really preferered the moment bruce adopted dick than the nightwing 100 moment

Mam that speech from the fundraiser felt as cringe as batmans second death speech in gotham knights

Btw whatvdid tou think of gotham war?

Tom taylor always had a hard on for hating bruce Especially in injustice

Nightwing has the best Booty of all the superheroes and I sincerely hope DC continues doing what’s they’re doing 😋😩😍

Loved what you said "Just because she's a woman, doesnt mean shes better than him" about Bea. I dislike when there is pity or pretentious attitude because it takes away from true character and not many women nowadays are aware or go against that narrative. SO REAL

DC's obsession with Nightwing's cake is almost as bad as their obsession with making Batman suffer. Can my boy Bruce be happy just once?

Oh thank goodness someone else not really loving Marv wolfman Teen Titans. I actually dropped it because I was getting kinda bored.

I’ve noticed that despite all the bragging about how comics have matured it feels more immature sometimes than the era when they were directly appealing to teenage boys. You can’t try to desexualize women and not appeal to teenage boys then be really creepy with characters like Dick. People like attractive characters but they like them as CHARACTERS with depth.

I understand your points, media today has a lot of these issues, no balance, no substance, everything is hypersexual, when sex has its places but there needs to be a balance between story and romance etc. it makes sense the main point is that he needs to keep in character.

For it is mighty. It's all we had.

Those who have obsessions of backsides are very very uncomfortably weird and they often go over board

Because it's a nice butt on a cute guy, duh.

I'm pretty sure the answer is obvious...

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I appreciate hearing this take from a female reader. It is definitely weird and minimizes his character.

Hey got to rep my fellow nightwing fans. Keep it up. Who are you using to do your video editor?

Keep content on Nightwing I never get to hear a lot of options on Nightwing.

I never understand why they sexualized Nightwing. The covers they do on him is just stupid. Like your points and reviews. Any special Nightwing covers you collect?

Another Banger keep it up

facts bro it’s so weird especially that butt stuff smh

Looking foward to hearing why you don't like Starfire as Dick's love interest

I agree with some of your points with the extra characters and pacing, but idk, i feel like a lot of this anger is just not deserved imo. This is the run that got me into comics. On Melinda: shes Grayson's half-sister in order to be more of a foil to Grayson. They both have the same compassion and both lost their father to Zucco. Dick just went the route of super-heroics while she went the route of politics. They didnt need to do that and i get why you dont like it but lets not act like it there was no narrative purpose. On the politics: are we really calling anything with a political message an agenda now? Seriously, this seems kinda out there. I am in no way disagreeing that Taylor is coming into the run with a political slant, but why is that a bad thing? Tons of comics and books have an obvious political message and we dont say they have an "agenda." I dont agree with Taylor's politics fully but let's at least engage with his ideas instead of dismissing them as an "agenda"? You clearly dont mind when Dixon brought in politics (that you agree with) when you talked about the kid that breaks into Dick's apartment, so why do you care when Taylor it? He uses Nightwing's idea that everyone deserves a safety net and uses that to give nightwing the motivation to create a public safety net, I dont think the politics are a bad fit for someone with that ideal (you even say that yourself). Hes also clearly not taking shots at Bruce here. Alfred also had billions and helped nobody with it but Dick names the whole foundation after him, so he doesnt think that sitting on your money is a morally wrong thing to do. If anything your reaction is assuming an argument Taylor never really made. Furthermore, many authors have made it clear that bruce wouldve been batman with or wothout the money, absolute batman just released and it takes this position if you need a recent comic to go by so your argument there doesnt really hold up imo. You say that dick is the most selfless, compassionate, and giving people in comics but you also say that him establishing a foundation is out of character? He doesnt need money do be nightwing but Taylor wanted to see how nightwing would react to getting all this money. I dont really see how thats bad for his character. Dick isnt saying these issues can be fixed with only money either, its clearly shown that corruption will get in the way and thats why Dick continues to be Nightwing and also works with mayor Zucco. In fact blockbuster would've completely dismantled the foundation before it even started if Dick didnt stop him as Nightwing. Its also a political argument to say that money doesnt help (when used correctly). I dont wanna get into it but not everybody agrees with your politics there, and thats what that is. On Dick Grayson being a philanthropist: i think you arent taking Alfred's death into perspective here, since its clearly used as a motivation for him doing this and the foundation is in his name. Nightwing (at least in this run) sees Alfred as a major influence in his life, and his death proves to him that superheroics arent enough. Also, his time as ric grayson showed him that while yes, he did save lives, he didnt save Bludhaven, the city was still just as corrupt as when he started. That was his issue, and its why Barbra's argument wasnt effective. I was gonna write more but it feels like a lot of your problems just come from the fact that Taylor had politics you disagree with. You say politics dont belong in superhero comics (which i wholeheartedly disagree but thats another discussion) but you clearly didnt mind Dixon bringing in politics. If you disagree with Taylors politics, fine, but I came here to listen to writing critiques and I did not get that after the first 10 or so minutes.

Great video, Im excited for Dan Watters to showcase Nightwings roots, possibly making him more popular than ever before. I hope his run is a long one!!

A fellow Nightwing Fan? Keep the fandom going 🫡

Very frustrated to read when Taylor keeps giving Nightwing help. Like to see Nightwing handle everything on his own . Glad to see this issue end but will miss Bruno’s art end

Yep so agree with you. Like to here about you opinion on next Nightwing run first issue?

I agree with all your points, very frustrating at times. I started to collect this run and read it was because of the art of Bruno Redondo. Great to see fans on reviews of Nightwing. Thanks enjoyed watching your review

Batman (even the greenlantern need his permission to enter Gotham) is less likely to ask for help Nightwing isn't. He moved the titans to Bludhaven and it led to the city being safer causing the deadliest assassins to reject any contacts that needed Dick dead.

Can't wait to hear about your thoughts about Dick x Starfire

DC has it out for him? He seems to be doing well lately better than Batman, saved bludhaven, became the leader of the premiere DC team the titans and struck the final blow to deathstroke.

I agree with the things u say more then the last video but still a good and thorough 👍

Out of curiosity, what did you think of DC vs Vampire? Especially after it was reveal Nightwing the Vampire lord? Personally, I thought it was one the stupidest things put to paper. (Like vampire Superman, stupid.)

I've been waiting for this one let's go!, I liked Taylors run up until fear state, after that is where it feels like his run started falling off and taking a turn for the worse imo

Amazing video!!! I totally agree on all the points, Bruno's covers and art saved this run and it made it look way better than it actually was. I'm eager to see pt 2

Not a Nightwing fan but I am glad to see more discussion vids from actual comic fans that goes into detail about their opinions without being hateful

I really enjoyed this run, but I see where you're coming from. Personally I thought this run was just really fun and a nice breath of fresh air not only after the Ric Grayson arc but for the character of NIghtwing in general. As someone already stated in the comments, we see a good amount of growth for Nightwing in this run and it's not necessarily bad. The panels with Nightwing and Bruce seem to try and grow the relationship between Bruce and Dick and also seems. I also think that Tom Taylor does a good job showing that Nightwing's friends are also there for him as well and are happy to support him, but I do agree that it was a lot of characters to add in. The relationship between Dick and Babs was an absolute delight to see throughout this story as well! I kinda wish that it wasn't so easy to figure out who Heartless was and that the character became a larger problem for Nightwing and potentially become a staple villain of his, but overall I'm still happy with the story. I also absolutely loved the artwork from Bruno Redondo and all the easter eggs throughout the arc. While this could be said for every comic book, I think without Redondo's art the story wouldn't have worked as well. There are many points throughout this run we see Redondo poke fun at things that have occurred throughout Batman media which helps establish the tone that this is meant to be a fun story. I'm not going to say this arc was perfect because its not, but I think there are some aspects from this arc that shouldn't be forgotten and can be something that fans can look back at and think "Yeah, that was a fun run!" I like the points that you made though and some of these points I didn't really think of while I was listening (thank you Comicstorian, R.I.P. Benny) to the story. I also really appreciate why you disliked it other than the it breaks character argument that I've seen on reddit!