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Nightwing: Renegade

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Renegade is one of my favorite of the Nightwing arcs. Picking up right where Mobbed up left off, it begins with Dick tutoring Deathstroke's daughter, showing her the ropes. She seems to think she's training to be a supervillain, but Dick is obviously pushing for something else. Deathstroke on the other hand, seems to be just waiting for him to slip up. If you're a fan of Nightwing at all, you should really like Renegade, as it has great writing and art, as well as guest appearances by several well known characters: Batman, Superman, Lex Luthor, and others. As I said in my Mobbed Up review, you really need to buy both of these together to get the whole story, as to me, it was almost like Part 1 and Part 2.

When I was recently perusing a few racks of trade paperbacks, this one caught my eye, and immediately had me interested. First, I must say I am not a huge Nightwing fan--I don't dislike the character at all--I'm just neutral. However, this collection peaked my interest and did not disappoint. It involves Dick questioning himself quite a bit, all the while "training" the daughter of Deathstroke The Terminator, Ravager, and meeting up with Superman along the way. It's a book with a few surprises, and I like the idea of Dick Grayson somewhat re-inventing who he is. However, I recommend avoiding the next trade in the series, "Brothers In Blood", which takes a couple of good ideas and somehow finds a way to screw them up.

The title really says it all, but just to emphasize, I really loved this comic. This is the first Nightwing comic I'd read in a really long time and it was excellent. The art in the book was very well drawn and the story was superb. The relationships between the characters is really what sold this for me. Between Nightwing & Deathstroke, Deathstroke and Ravanger, Renegade (Nightwing) and Ravanger, and the many others that play smaller parts in the story just got me hooked to finding out how they got there and where they'll be afterwards.

Okay, I'm not a huge fan of nightwing, in fact, I was beginning to think he was a whinny little dog (female dog, to be specific) ;> but these issues of nightwing helping out deathstroke's daughter were pretty good. I would say at the high point of nightwing's run. See deathstroke's daughter become a good guy and nightwing get his mojo back, finally!!

I never picked up a Nightwing before Renegade. I grabbed this one because of its high rating and good reviews.
The writing is at best mediocre, and the art isn't much better.

If this is the best example of the writing and art on Nightwing...wow, DC really needs to rethink this plan before Grayson returns from being Batman.