Nightwing 116

Publisher: DC
Price: $2.50
Cover date: March 2006
W: Devin Grayson
A: Wellington Alves & Marcos Marz

Synopsis: Bludhaven has been destroyed, and Nightwing risks certain death to save the survivors of his city.

Thoughts: This issue embodies everything I hate about comics: a terrible story by a good writer; a thin story (regardless of the writer's résumé); a shameless, unproductive cameo (two, actually); a switch in artists partway through; bland art that struggles to convey the action; the hero attempting to save a villain, because choosing who lives and dies isn't "a decision I get to make" (and subsequently ignoring all of the good people in need); an ancillary tie-in to a companywide crossover (especially when it doesn't actually tie-in); and, worst of all, a cover that has nothing to do with the story.