Review: Nightwing #19

Nightwing #19 cover, by Booth, Rapmund and Dalhouse

some SPOILERS below, be warned!

Let me just start off by saying that I loved this issue, I've enjoyed Kyle Higgins' run from the start, Love Brett Booth's art ( and with Norm Rapmund and Andrew Dalhouse, it's even better!) and Dick's one of my favourite characters. So this issue was pretty perfect.

Kyle Higgins' decision to send Nightwing to Chicago was a great idea, it gives the character a chance to shine without being in the shadow of the bat, and it's nice to see Nightwing as the only masked hero and not surrounded by all the other Bat-Characters.

It's also really fun to see Nightwing take easy care of the Chicago Police Department, who definitely seemed a bit unprepared for somebody like Dick Grayson.

Now onto the art, which I loved. This is the same art team as most of the first 16 issues of Teen Titans, which was one of my favourite New 52 books, mostly because of the art. Brett Booth has a really great style, he manages to capture Nighwing's movements just right, and seeing Nighwing's facial expressions in this issue, He also manages to show the emotions of the character well.

The Inks and Colours by Norm Rapmund and Andrew Dalhouse really add to Booth's art, they've become a bit of a team in the New 52, with a lot of Booth's work being inked and coloured by the pair.

My only problem with the issue is that the cover is a bit misleading, Nightwing and the Prankster never actually come face to face, and the villain only turns up in the last few pages. But this isn't a major problem.

Score: 9/10 !