Batman: Prodigal


With Battle for The Cowl set to begin next month, I finally got around to reading the story where Dick Grayson dons the costume of his mentor after the events of Knightfall.

He overcomes his first Two-Face scenario from his Robin days, which Chuck Dixon uses in Robin: Year One and takes down the deceased Ratcatcher and poor version of The Crooked Man of the nursery rhythm.

After the Jean-Paul Valley incident, Gordon is on the fence on trusting another Dark Knight, while that’s going on his relationship with the late Sarah Essen becomes strained.

Towards the middle, Dick questions what life has handed him. The resolution of reconciling with Bruce and going back to Nightwing is short lived. Which conflicts with a fight scene with Drake against a metallic Sauron since the conclusion happened in a Robin book.

By the end, the artwork turns sloppy. Renee Montoya gets anime eyes. While the story went through the Batman titles, my pet peeve when reading a graphic novel is the art stay consisted from start to finish. In closing, it’s good story of brothers in arms, fathers and sons. Can’t wait for BFTC.