(B+) 78% | GoodNotes: Effuse with whimsicality, it chews on grey morality: suggestive, sleek, James Bond-ish cheek, with offbeat musicality.

You might think you know Nightwing...you don't know Dick.*slow clap*So, yeah, that's a pretty cute tagline for DC's new Grayson title. So, you know how...ok wait. If you don't know what happened to Dick in Forever Evil, then this might be a spoiler for you. Everyone else, feel free to keep reading.*taps foot...waits*So, you know how Nightwing gets captured, unmasked publicly, and then is killedish? Well, Batman and Grayson have a big pointless fight scene in Nightwing: Setting Son, and Batman o...

A D-List character buddy read with my Shallow Comic Reading pals! Ok, I’m really gonna try and not go wall to wall with “Dick” jokes in this one. I promise. FUUUNNN STUFF! With so many mixed reviews for this book, I had no clue where I would land on this one. Well I like Dick….Grayson….Nightwing…..Agent 37….Whatever. Following Forever Evil, Nightwing takes on a new role as Batman’s spy in the clandestine organization known as Spyral. I won’t get into how this all comes to pass, just in case yo

Mikel Janin's art is gorgeous. He's one of the best things to come out of the New 52. The story is OK. It's got that weird 60's vibe, it's trying to be the Invisibles but never quite succeeds.

Firstly, thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in return for my honest unbiased opinion. Secondly, thanks to DC publishing, who are usually very stingy when it comes to granting NetGalley requests for Canadian readers...but I'm very glad that I got approved this time.Grayson, of course, is a book about the original Boy Wonder, Dick Grayson. Without a doubt the best Robin ever, the only Nightwing ever, and the best Batman not named Bruce Wayne (it's a short list, but when Bruce was MIA in time and thoug...

"A Hadrian's Woman is like a crossbow. She is drawn and locked, fitted with a quarrel. She is ready and armed......before a target ever walks into her line of sight.Her power is in the tautness of her core. In the tension in her arms. Her power is in her curves."As a HUGE Dick Grayson fan, I have to say I loved this volume.Basically, this is post- Nightwing unmasked by the Crime Syndicate and then "killed." Since Dick was outed, he knew he had to lay low and keep letting the world believe he was...

3.5 stars, to be fair.I was expecting this to be about Dick as Nightwing, but this takes place after Forever Evil. To avoid spoilers for that volume, I'll just say that this is Dick working for a secret agency named Spyral. He's a secret agent in this, alongside Helena Bertinelli (the Huntress).The writing here was good and the artwork was pretty good. The plot felt a little dry to me at times (because I'm not big on the whole secret agent thing), but there were some aspects thrown in that made

I don't have any really strong feelings on this. I liked the Grayson issues fine enough, but the other included issues made the reading experience less enjoying. There were some dick/Dick jokes that seemed out of place, but whatever. I'll continue on to the second volume and see how that one goes.

Is it weird that I've developed a crush on a comic character?I was first introduced to Dick Grayson in Robin Year One. (Okay, that's not true; it was actually Chris O'Donnell in 1997's Batman & Robin but we don't speak of that film. Plus, we don't ever call him Robin). He was this adorable kid with a penchant for terrible puns. Then he became Nightwing and became more of a leader. Now, he looks after the Batfam and he's extremely attractive!Mikel Janin is probably my favorite artist for Dick now...

Mmmmm... not as good as I had been hyped to expect. But I suppose it is hard, being a spy in a world of meta-humans, or a superhero in a world of spies.

Not my favorite. I just can't take spies seriously. The entire premise of Dick Grayson becoming a spy after Forever Evil is too much for me. And while Tom King and Tim Seeley write dick, sex and fart jokes to ease the tension, it didn't do it for me. What I found the funniest was that the Spyral Mobile was a PT Cruiser, and that was a short lived moment. So with a laughable premise, plot oversights, cheesy humor, and sex sex sex, it's not as fun or dramatic as it's intended. And it's difficult t...

Wow, what a light, creative blast this was! Also, a very welcome change from the heavy, depressing slog most of The New 52 has been. I know Tom King has now become Everyone's Favorite Writer, and if this relatively frivolous series is any indication of his talent, I'm very excited to finally catch up with the rest of the world and follow his work closely.I've seen a lot of reviews that point out the James Bond parallels in this series, as well as the double entendres and innuendo. While that is

If you haven’t read Forever Evil (lucky devil!) and don’t want to be spoiled, skip ahead a paragraph.So in Forever Evil Nightwing was unmasked to everyone in the world to be Dick Grayson. But Geoff Johns wasn’t done with his punching bag yet because Dick got a bomb wired to his heart and was “killed”. Except of course he wasn’t and only he and Batman (and several other DC characters) know it.Now Dick Grayson is a “dead man” who’s decided to help Batman infiltrate Kathy Kane’s secret spy organisa...

This did not work out the way I wanted it to. Sadly. I had read the first issue and liked it. A little tongue in cheek spy action seemed like a fine thing to add to the mainstream DCU. But it just didn't come together.Largely, that's because there's essentially no forward momentum in what is meant to be the main story. What is Spyral, exactly, and what, exactly, are their end goals? Do they even have end goals? I don't know, most of the characters don't seem to know, and I'm not entirely convinc...

This comic left me confused and angry.Dick Grayson has joined an (obviously) evil spy organization. Has he lost his damn mind???!! (view spoiler)[No, he's been planted there by Batman. (hide spoiler)]The thing that annoyed me SO MUCH about this book was1.) Dick Grayson's horrible sexual decisions. Seriously. Are men incapable of saying "no" to sex?!!?! I hate HATE when a book has a man, usually an action-hero type, and then an attractive woman approaches him and comes on to him - and she is CLEA...

Meh. Mostly an excuse to make not-that-funny Dick jokes. Still, some Janin art and a little patented Tom King mind-make-lovery salvage it.

I love Dick.. Grayson. :)I am sooooo sorry. I just to throw one out there. Haha.Yes! I love this. After reading The Court of Owls and City of Owls, I've grown quite fond of Dick... Grayson. He's the type of character you can't help but like. He's good at what he does and has this certain charisma about him. He could get a bit cocky at times which, I think, is part of his appeal. THINGS THAT I LIKED: - I really liked Dick... Grayson. Seriously. I like Grayson. Haha. He's quite hot. Sorry. I ju...

Gotta say, I was pretty jazzed about Nightwing turning super-spy - charming, physical and graceful, he's a dreamy guy anyway, and in-the-shadows agent? C'mon, why you gotta threaten my solid heterosexuality like that?Intro is mighty decent - for all that exposition and catch-up, at least it wasn't talking heads on a TV screen, or a protagonist talking to themselves. I don't quite understand the assassination moment (did Matron know or not?), but let's skip ahead to the action shall we?The first

I'm not terribly well-versed in DC history, so I have no idea what happened to lead into this book. By far, my favorite panels are the sequence where he plays chase with the private school girls. Wait. That sounds wrong. Uh, Dick Grayson is a hotass. You should read this.

ARC provided by publisher through NetGalley for an honest review. Dick Grayson, former Robin, former Nightwing, presumed dead, goes to work for the spy organization Spyral as Agent 37. We we discover is things aren't exactly what they seem to me. Dick must decide who he is, who he can trust at the same time trying to keep who he was. The drawings and coloring was spectacular and the action depicted was really cool. But the story itself lacked any real direction. Everything was inferred and ev