Nightwing #130

Dan Watters continues to elevate Nightwing with strong character development and world-building, further establishing the hero as a central focus for the DCU. Issue #130 balances crime procedural elements with superhero action, supported by Dexter Soy's dynamic artwork and Veronica Gandini's signature bold colours. Read Full Review

There are some particularly great scenes with Batman and Nightwing, as well, as Watters continues to double down on the two of them genuinely acting like a family in the same way Taylor did. Read Full Review

Nightwing gets back to basics with a powerful problem on his hands. Watters showcases the tough choices and ramifications of being a hero. Soy and Gandini bring a high-energy feel to the art. Readers had better get ready for where this series is going! Read Full Review

Nightwing #130 is a great issue that begins with the next arc in Dan Watters, Dexter Soy, and Veronica Gandini's time on the series by filling the issue with action, drama, and intrigue. Read Full Review

Nightwing #130 is a jumping on point for new/returning readers. It's a good issue in the grand scheme, and it feels like it's setting up a big change for Nightwing. 'Till Next time Caped Crusaders! Read Full Review

In many ways, the sad case of Bryce Moran is like an uncomfortably corrupt version of Shazam. After the Totality storyline in Titans, the demon superpower thing from Nightwing #104, the Gotham Girl saga, or just common sense should be enough for Dick to end this “Nightwing Prime” story before it starts. Otherwise, this is a decent return to the main storyline. There are some standout panels, such as Bryce crying in the rain at the grave, and the pleasing contrast in the skyline in the begining of the issue and the cover. Narratively, the character has plenty of conflicts to deal with amid the growing menace of the haunting big bad. Even with the issues in dialogue and flaws in internal logic, readers can start to get on board with the next phase of the series. Read Full Review

While Dan Watters and Dexter Soy do a strong job with Dick's relationships with other heroes in Nightwing #130, the nature of the moral dilemma forming the narrative backbone of the book continues to collapse under its own immaturity. Read Full Review

BatSledge

Sep 18, 2025

The start of a new storyline in this issue holds great promise as Watters and Soy deliver their best issue yet. It works on several levels, including the Dick/Bruce encounter, the mayoral shenanigans on the horizon, the conflict with the police and the man-bats, Bryce and his new powers, and Dick taking on a protege. Best compliment I can give is that this lives up to the high bar by Tom Taylor for a change.

Tempra16v2.0Turbo

Sep 18, 2025

Where is Watters who wrote Ram V's Detective Comics backups?

Criminology.

Oct 03, 2025

This run for me goes contantly from being meh to being good to being meh again, it's crazy that it have been 10 issues already and my opinion shifts so much and at the same time, we are pretty much at zero point. I feel like it has a weird identity or we are just too early. This issue for me serves as an aftermath to the sureality of last few issues, issue that personally i did not enjoy much when reading. It puts Nightwing back into the real issues that plague the city.I have some stuff with how the issue feels somewhat hollow and forgettable. Obviously not every issue needs to be a banger, but this particually i feel have some pretty big flaws and feels stiched togheter not so good. We get this fight that feels weightless and does not have much stakes and then the issue focus on it's others plot and even then it does not do a great job with them. It did not flow well with me. The whole issue feels incomplete. Personally i would have liked to see more of nightwing primes dealing with his powers, more of a day to day life in bludhaven. I feel like we had a skip, that feels actually cutting some important stuff. At the same time this issue have a lot of things that feel obligatory and not that flesh out like how the league came, all of them felt stilted, emotionless in their voices.There is something to be said about dexter soy and how a lot of what we see here does not play with his straights, but even then the dialogue was really bleak. Generally i know some people like Zanni and co, but personally im way more interested in how the cast of character developes and i think Watters does a good job with them. All their developments feel significant and make the city more alive, but i just can't connect zanni to all of it and i think it even takes away from it, something which imo is extra apparent here/ more