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A review by fandom4ever
Nightwing: Old Friends, New Enemies by Erik Larsen, Dan Mishkin, Cherie Wilkerson, Vincent Giarrano, Mike DeCarlo, Tom Mandrake, Chuck Patton, Marv Wolfman, Tom Poston
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
4.0
Nightwing: Old Friends, New Enemies contained three stories originally published in the 1980s. The intro story ‘The Secret Origin of Nightwing’ was excellent. It was basically just going over Dick’s history from his time in the circus to his breaking away from Batman to become Nightwing, but it also had Dick’s own take on his relationship with Bruce and how different they truly are, even if they do care about one another as father and son.
The second storyline ‘The Cheshire Contract’ sees Nightwing and Speedy working together. This was a great story, and seeing Dick and Roy interact, both in costume and not, was perfect. Roy is clearly hiding the true intent of his mission from Dick but Dick helps him nonetheless because the two are good friends, and this comes across clearly in the story. I really enjoyed them comparing and contrasting themselves to the other. And the ending was so sweet!
The third and last story ‘Rocks and Hard Places’ was, I suppose, on some level supposed to be a sequel of sorts to ‘The Cheshire Contract’. Roy now has his daughter, Lian, and is planning on a better life for them both, but wow did this story quickly fly off the rails! All sorts of groups with weird names were thrown in, attacking Roy and each other, and I just could not follow what was going on as the story did little in true explanation.
Overall, I’d recommend reading the first two stories and skipping the third to get full enjoyment from this collection.
The second storyline ‘The Cheshire Contract’ sees Nightwing and Speedy working together. This was a great story, and seeing Dick and Roy interact, both in costume and not, was perfect. Roy is clearly hiding the true intent of his mission from Dick but Dick helps him nonetheless because the two are good friends, and this comes across clearly in the story. I really enjoyed them comparing and contrasting themselves to the other. And the ending was so sweet!
The third and last story ‘Rocks and Hard Places’ was, I suppose, on some level supposed to be a sequel of sorts to ‘The Cheshire Contract’. Roy now has his daughter, Lian, and is planning on a better life for them both, but wow did this story quickly fly off the rails! All sorts of groups with weird names were thrown in, attacking Roy and each other, and I just could not follow what was going on as the story did little in true explanation.
Overall, I’d recommend reading the first two stories and skipping the third to get full enjoyment from this collection.