Nightwing #84 Review

Writer: Tom Taylor / Artist: Bobbi Rodriguez and Adriano Lucas / DC Comics In Nightwing #84, we take a little break from the ongoing story in Blüdhaven with Heartless, and Dick’s promise to make the city better, and we follow Nightwing to Gotham where the Magistrate has a chokehold on the city and all of its inhabitants. If you’re reading Batman, you know what I’m talking about. But if you’re not, you’re likely as confused as Nightwing is when he gets to the city that he was raised in. So, let me break it down for you.  Fear State is an event that spun out of Future State from earlier this year. It was when DC envisioned possible futures for the multiverse. And it’s where we got introduced to a lot of the new characters that we’ve been getting familiar with over the past few months, like Jace Fox. In one Future State story, we see a not-too-distant future where the Magistrate, a paramilitary police force, takes over the city in an effort to protect it. We all know that can never go well. But now when you add Scarecrow trying to control the city by inducing fear into all of its citizens, you know people are mad that they didn’t move when they had the chance. That’s where we find ourselves presently.

So how’s Nightwing tied up in all of this? Well, he gets a call from Oracle summoning him to Gotham. But when he gets there, he finds out it was a trap, and he and Batman have to fight their way through Magistrate drones and regroup to figure out what they’re going to do an…