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Nightwing #70
Bridget Haines |
| Title: |
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Dangled |
| Cover Date: |
August 2002 |
| Story: |
Chuck Dixon |
| Pencils: |
William Rosado |
| Inks: |
Rob Stull / Jesse Delperdang |
| Colors and Separations: |
Gregory Wright / Digital Chameleon |
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Synopsis: (WARNING! SPOILERS!)
This is Chuck Dixon's final issue of Nightwing,
and is an effort to wrap up the
loose end
he left in the 80-page Giant
regarding Hella,
the former cop gone psycho, out
to avenge
the deaths of her family members.
It starts
off following Lunchmeat Deever
through one
of his now unbelievably boring
days under
the witness protection program.
He runs a
dry cleaners in Desert Palms
Arizona. He's
miserable, pleading with the
fed to get him
out of there. He goes into his
shop, and
takes it out on his blonde counter
girl,
who runs out in tears.
Hella arrives, via motorcycle,
followed shortly
thereafter by Dick Grayson in
the Cobra mode
of the Nightbird. He's looking
for Delbert
Carlson, Deever's new persona.
A gas station
attendant tells him thre are
a lot of new
faces in town.
Hella shows up as Lunchmeat locks
up his
shop. He recognizes her as the
one who killed
his son. He dives for cover as
he asks who
sent her. She responds with her
father, her
brother, her uncle. Nightwing
shows up and
flattens her in time for several
of Desert
Palms' newest residents, all
in the witness
protection program, to open fire
on the costumed
folks. Hella opens fire on them.
Deever runs
for his life out into the desert.
Wing tries to stop hela with
gas wingdings,
but she has filters in her mask.
She gives
him a whomping, pulling his mask
off and
leaving him alone surrounded
by hostiles.
Lunchmeat tries to call the US
Marshalls,
but Hella blows up the phone.
She chases
him down into a ditch oof some
sort on her
motorcycle. Deever trips her
up.. He's about
to shoot her with her own weapon
when a wingding
knocks it from his grasp. He
sends Deever
home and carries the unconscious
Hella off.
Deever returns to his shop, to find it full
of gasoline. The counter girl he sent off
in tears is there, and blows the place, and
him in it.
Analysis:
Cover:  (4 of 5cowls)
Michael Golden again improves on his latest
string of covers. The were only two things
I didn't like about it. The first was the
sign. Great idea, wrong name. It's Desert
Palms, not Desert Oasis. That's a boo boo
that should have been caught by the editor.
Second the orange I think might have been
more effective (and been more foreshadowing)
if it was orange and yellow clouds or flames,
to point towards the final scene. Nice detail
on the pile of unconscious thugs, and the
composition of Hella, the bike, and Wing.
Story: (3 of 5 cowls)
Although I have a hard time seeing Dick Grayson
bugging out to save the likes of Lunchmeat
Deever while his adoptive father is being
manhunted for murder, I understand Chuck's
desire to tie up loose ends. This was an
ok one shot story, though I'd like to know
what happened to Hella. The loose end really
isn't tied at all, in fact it just left a
lot of looser ends. Did Lunchmeat die? Did
Hella die or go to jail? I did like the bit
of irony at the end when the airhead counter
girl seemingly does Lunchmeat in. For that
it gets 3 cowls.
Artwork: (3 of 5 cowls)
The art in this issue wasn't bad, but it
wasn't great either. I'm still looking for
the next Land or McDaniel. Frighteningly,
the person most consistently portrayed in
this issue is Lunchmeat, and he was drawn
just as he needed to be, semi repulsive.
The image of Hella on page 6 is very nicely
done. But Rosado seems to have the same flaw
I do. I can draw women and caricatures great,
I can't draw normal guys to save my life.
I'm inconsistent with them. Props to the
inkers though, there were two, and I couldn't
see any notable difference between the work
on the pages, which helped things flow by
story.
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