As has been true for a couple volumes now, Nightwing Vol. 4: The Leap feels like this book treading water until it gets to the place where something big can occur. I had been expecting this to be that place, given Nightwing’s 100th issue and also this volume lining up with Dark Crisis, but still there’s a sense of the story biding its time.
Tom Taylor continues to write a great Nightwing, and indeed some of my uneasiness with The Leap must also stem from our knowledge that Taylor will be wrapping up his run a few volumes hence. By the time he’s done, Taylor will have written around 50 issues of Nightwing, though still I wonder if he’s quite set enough foundation that the next team will be able to achieve the same tone. Among the characters here, there’s a lot of “this is what I’m going to do” planning, but it seems to be taking a while to actually do it.
