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| NIGHTWING No. 136, May 2026 |
For one thing, Dick Grayson’s alter-ego doesn’t actually do anything in this book apart from attempt to rationalise (and debatably patronise) the erratic behaviour of the Woman in White he picked up from the centre of the road. This attitude towards his distinctly witchlike companion may well irk some readers, but it rather surprisingly puts them in a better position to understand the lady’s plight than the supposed ‘hero of the hour’ – especially once the publication begins depicting her backstory via flashbacks, which clearly shows her death occurring during a much earlier time, maybe even in the dark, puritan days of the country's colonisation by Europe.
This additional knowledge will doubtless have the odd bibliophile shouting at Nightwing to stop underestimating his eerie passenger right up until the moment the Teen Titan is called upon to help evacuate several injured motorists. Admittedly, some onlookers may well argue that the original Boy Wonder wasn’t responsible for the mass pile-up which occurs following him planning to drive his bloody companion to a hospital. But if the super-hero hadn’t badly miscalculated the paranormal powers clearly at work, he might not have deviated from the route to the “crossroads” which the woman was clearly determined for him to take.
Disappointingly, the layouts of “legendary artist Denys Cowan” don’t debatably do the story justice, despite the American illustrator apparently doing his best to make a tale set inside the front of a car as dynamic as possible. What does impress though is the subsequent mass crash which sees various vehicles slam into one another from all sorts of horrible angles. Indeed, one can genuinely hear the screech of tyres, the crunch of metal and the smashing of so many glass windscreens from his well-pencilled panels covering this horrendous event.
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| The regular cover art of "NIGHTWING" #136 by Jorge Fornes |













