Nightwingologyさんのイラストまとめ

Next issue is mostly Dick recovering from his ordeal while Babs takes care of him. It's a bit fan-servicey, and certainly the foundation for a lot of pre-2011 Nightwing fanfiction, but not necessarily in a bad way. It's built on 30+ issues of characterization.

There's this nice balance between Nightwing being a guy that most villains absolutely hate, and being a guy that can actually get them to work together and listen to him in the right circumstances. Just takes the right application of pressure, sometimes literally:

Nightwing gets stuck in the pit in Blackgate with the worst of the worst. Ventriloquist and Scarecrow convince the others not to kill him since he could help them all escape. As luck would have it, they're in what used to be a gunpowder and ammo magazine.

Taser charge in the suit. It's not just a spandex onesie, it's an insulated kevlar/nomex suit with some fun tricks.

I guess he was still mad about Nightwing rag-dolling him.

Another thing this run does well to showcase that Dick is an actual human is have him get sore from all the beatings he takes every night, and catch a cold when he stays out in the rain and cold at night.

Part of Dick's training as Robin included firearms training. How to shoot them, take them apart, even throw them. Comes in handy in police academy.

Dick's time in the police academy can basically be summed up by "he already knows all this, it's super boring for him." At which point, as a reader, I have to ask why he's doing it? I get that he wants to help more people, but his motivations to become a cop are flimsy imo.

#31 is also the issue where Dick enrolls in the police academy. He's been talking about how Blüdhaven's corruption flows from the top down, and working in a cop bar all this time, so I guess this is his attempt to clean it up from the inside, à la Jim Gordon.

We also find out that Clancy wants to be a doctor, and Dick basically ensures she'll get a Wayne Foundation scholarship (though she doesn't know he has those connections).