Nightwing Annual #2 - DC

This is what an Annual is all about. Telling a story that might not normally be told in the regular series, but is just as important to the main character as one of the regular books. This particular story is like a flashback, or remembrance story. But it's also a fill-in, as it catches our character up to date from when the Crisis ended, to the first book of the One Year Later storyline. Basically, right before the Crisis was done, Nightwing was hurt. He was treated, and then Barbara, Oracle, took him to her place to help nurse him back to health. Three weeks later he comes around and starts asking questions. They flashback on, or remember, pretty much all the pivotal points in their relationship. And we get a lot of fill-in, that we had taken for granted over the years, but never actually seen from either persons point of view. Dick regrets some of the things he did, and the decisions he made, and Barbara also regrets the same. But they both know that even though the time has never been perfect for either of them, that they truly love each other. But then, after he's pretty much back in shape, Bruce decides that it's time for them, Bruce Dick and Tim, to take a sabbatical from Gotham and go clear their heads a bit. Barbara agrees with him. She knows that Dick needs to go find himself and become his own man. But they know that the other will always be waiting for them. Very touching story by Marc Andreyko. He really captured both of these characters essence. Right down to their core. Joe Bennett does the art, and it looks really nice. This is definitely an Annual worth getting.