Ha, this wasn't half bad.

I was expecting to go into this fully hating it. Everything about Ric so far has been pure garbage. I mean it's one of the WORST evolution of a character I've ever seen. Didn't help Lobdell was writing and he's trash 95% of the time. So with the awful stank of the last 10+ issues I wasn't much looking forward to this but I said fuck it and downloaded it from Hoopla.

This is moving the storyline forward for Nightwing returning to being the hero we all know or love. It actually opens with a great annual of Dick losing his memory and kind of recapping the events as it happened. This time though we get the insight into right after the events and how Bruce reacted. We also get to see Damien at Dick's bedside in the hospital and it's these moments that really lifted the volume for me.

The rest of the volume goes more into cliche area but not horrible atleast. Nightwing's band of Nightwingers is slowly getting picked off because Talon has had enough of these 'Fake" Nightwings. He knows who Dick is and he won't let him rest till he becomes just like him, a owl for the court of owls.

This storyline is basically a fairly typical superhero tale. We know what will happen, no surprises, but written well enough and pacing decent enough to make it readable. Biggest plus is knowing Dick gaining his memories back slowly and the next event, Joker war, where he will no doubt gain all his memories again (Thank god).

Not great but far better than the last 3 or 4 volumes. A 3 out of 5.