Nightwing 2022 Annual #1 Preview

[thwhtGuardian]

Is it boring serial killers are hot jam right now, those dahmer numbers were no joke

Heartless isn't Jeffery Dahmer though, he's just a grouping of cliches.

[Mantis-Ray]

Late but I finally read the Heartless story

I gotta agree this doesn't really actually make Heartless that interesting. Because Chamberlain spends the entire story narrating, it also means we never really get any inner thoughts from Heartless himself. We don't even get much motivation as to why he's doing all this beyond I guess general sadism. Its like he gets in an accident, gets some bionics, and is all "Well I might as well be a supervillain", and puts on a random mask.

Like the whole body-modding thing is fairly interesting but it doesn't really go much into that like say him being addicted to surgery and ****.

At most the genuine love Shelton feels for Chamberlain is the most interesting part about him but otherwise Heartless just feels like some bum instead of a great threat not helped by the extremally generic serial killer cliches. It feels like Taylor pulled out every trope in the book for this.

[exile001]

I'll largely agree that this didn't set the world on fire, but I did enjoy the mirroring of the Bat-Family. If you're going to do, go all in.

I kinda wanted him sitting in a line with Bruce and Tim (and family) at the circus to see their horror and Shelton's delight. Heck, add Raptor. We could have a whole section full of people with varying reactions to the Grayson's deaths.

[Frontier]

Babs is going to be added in at some point, I'm sure .

[phonogram12]

Just so long as Shrike doesn't come back. That character couldn't make a phonebook exciting let alone a superhero comic.

[Claude]

I'll largely agree that this didn't set the world on fire, but I did enjoy the mirroring of the Bat-Family. If you're going to do, go all in.

I kinda wanted him sitting in a line with Bruce and Tim (and family) at the circus to see their horror and Shelton's delight. Heck, add Raptor. We could have a whole section full of people with varying reactions to the Grayson's deaths.

After a certain point, you have to wonder - if Haly's Circus was already so famous that them doing a show in Gotham attracted every mover and shaker in town and then it ended in horrible tragedy....

...filtered through the reduction in plots revolving around Bruce doing things publically/being a darling of the media...

....if you were an average Joe in Gotham, would you be more likely to have heard of Dick Grayson than of Bruce Wayne?