Marginally better than Grayson, Volume 2: We All Die At Dawn but not as good as Grayson, Volume 1: Agents of Spyral. The (view spoiler)[reuniting of the batfamily (hide spoiler)] in issue #12 was good, but not enough to redeem this vol as a whole.

Won this in a Goodreads giveaway. Great series in which Dick Grayson (the 1st Robin) is a super-spy who has run-ins with an amnesiac Bruce Wayne, the Bat Family, and a mostly depowered Superman.

They're really embracing the whole Dick Grayson as James Bond in this book. The opening scene could have appeared before an elaborately staged James Bond credit sequence and it's great. It fits in with Dick's tendency to drop quips every time he's in a fight. I've always loved the references to Dick's relationship with Batman, like the exchange with the boy at the start. "I think about Batman when I'm scared, you know?" "Yeah, I know..."It's something I felt was missing in the New 52 reboot, tha...

Honestly it’s all fun and games and then they hit you hard with all sorts of bat fam nostalgia/feelings, it’s p rude. (Seriously though I loved that issue)One thing is sometimes they go a bit *too* far with the Dick’s-butt jokes? Like, I love that as much as anyone, but when it’s coming from an all-male team that also feels the need to reemphasize how straight he is, and make him uncomfortable when Supes carries him etc etc?

Grayson Volume 3 picks up the slack that Volume 2 left behind. Action is all well and good (I mean, this is a comic book), but what gets me invested in a storyline is exploring personal relationships and character development, and that’s exactly what Nemesis relies on. I love the enunciation on Dick’s relationship with Batman and even Superman. I know that a lot of people prefer to put Dick in the category of Batman’s son, but I grew up with the more old school tv show, so I’ve always seen the t...

Hrrm. This series is so hit and miss, but none of the hits hit hard. There was one pretty great issue that ended (paused?) the main story arc, then it ended on an awful issue where Dick has to say goodbye to Gotham before being forced back to work with Spyral. At this point in DC (New 52), Bruce Wayne is an amnesiac, Gordon has started to play Batman in a mech suit, Lois Lane has outed Clark Kent as Superman, and Clark is far less Super than ever (since his creation in the late '30s). For some r...

Another great volume of adventures with Dick Grayson, aka Agent 37.Grayson is being framed as a murderer and it's up to him and a reluctant Agent 1 to solve the mystery. We also get a chapter where Dick goes back to Gotham and meets up with his family. There are some great scenes with each character reacting to the knowledge that Dick isn't dead. The best part, though, is definitely the Annual chapter. It's a team-up between Grayson and a depowered Superman that has tons of action and the fun qu...

I'm still reading some of the older New 52 stuff. In most of the series that I'm reading, I've only made it up to volume 4. This series came out about the time most of the series I'm reading had already released 6 or 7 volumes. I wouldn't have even started this series yet if I had not won volume 2 of Grayson from Goodreads. I'm really glad that I did though because this series is amazing.I really like the character Dick Grayson. Tom King and Tim Seeley handle Dick very well. (Haha!) King and See...

The Batfamily finding out Dick’s alive ❤️ and that Damian/Dick panel! He lives his Batman

I don't know if I'm going to read past this. I love moments of Grayson. In this volume the moments with Grayson visiting a Bruce (who doesn't remember him due to End Game events) or Jason, Tim, or Barbra were all very well done. My favorite one was with Damien, which was such a wonderful reunion. On the flipside, the second half, all the Spyral shit or whatever is so boring, convoluted, and messy. I don't care about any of it. It feels like a shitty Bond or Mission Impossible script. And it make...

I received a copy of this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways. I hadn't read the first two volumes of the series so I nabbed them from the library in order to be up to speed, so you're getting a three-fer in this review! Comics and graphic novels have reached something of a renaissance in recent years, with amazing work being put out through independent publishers. Sadly, Marvel and DC have generally failed to keep pace with the fantastic storytelling arising from the creator-owned sphere

The production values on this are great - the art is slick, flashy and fun to look at. But why do I feel like the story is using sleight of hand and misdirection to distract from a lack of heart? Also, it's always irritating when you have to go digging in other series to find out what's going on - Batman has amnesia? Lex Luthor is in charge of the Justice League? Superman can't fly anymore? What?I'll continue to peek in on this title from time to time - but it's not one of my top picks.

Much better than the last volume! This was a bit of (I thought) a return to the fun feel of Vol 1: Agents of Spyral, which is what sucked me into this title to start with. Vol 2: We All Die At Dawn wasn't nearly as good, with its disjointed and confusing storyline, and lack of the tongue in cheek slickness that volume one had in spades. To say I was kind of iffy about picking this one up would be an understatement.But Chris swore up and down that this volume was great, so I took a leap of faith...

This was pretty good, up until Superman was introduced. He was a parody of himself at best. The rest of the plot was pretty good, and the art was good as well.

The Grayson are thin little collections in a series that didn't really take off fro me, at least not until this volume. Mr. Minos has been replaced as the head of Spyral, and now it is discovered that someone has been killing off other agency counter-agents on Agent 37's missions...

(B+) 78% | GoodNotes: A run of recollecting, milking feels by confrontation, highlight reels and face reveals, but hot and cold in aggregation.

3.5 stars. So, it's hard to pinpoint exactly what didn't work about this volume for me. There were several humorous moments to enjoy. Especially the comments about Dick's most famous feature:I loved the target referring to him as a "common thief with the most beautiful butt I've ever seen." I feel your pain, lady. I really do. The art by Mikel Janin continues to be gorgeous! I love the way he draws Dick's physicality. He's so graceful and skilled and I tend to have a hard time if books don't dra...

Actually, that was really good. I'm very surprised. Glad I didn't give up on this series.

This series should be a lot more enjoyable to proper Batman fans who at least know all the different Robins. For me it was less accessible, but that may also be due to all the jumping around from one scene to another and what I see as redundant scenes, at least for now. The spy game was never more confusing. At least the artwork is solid.Grayson wants out of the spy business, but he is being suspected of killing other agents in Spyral. (view spoiler)[His death was faked to infiltrate him into Sp...

Mikel Janin's art is spectacular. The story meanders some. The stories seem to be written for someone with a short attention span. These are mostly self contained. With Dick dealing with the fallout of Batman's amnesia and teaming up with Superman. Big things happen like Spyral's hypnos getting hacked and by the next issue everything's hunky-dory and the spies are sticking those things back in their eyes without pause. What I don't like about the series is how Grayson is a spy who knows nothing