Future State: Nightwing #1

DC's 2021 "Future State" initiative imagines tomorrow's heroes in striking new contexts, and this first issue plants Nightwing squarely in that unsettling vision. Yasmine Putri's cover sets the mood perfectly — a rain-soaked, lightning-split sky looms over the crumbling, chained gates of Arkham as a crouching Nightwing perches above the wreckage, watchful and tense amid the bare, skeletal trees. With writer Andrew Constant and artist Nicola Scott bringing "Once Upon a Night in Gotham Part 1" to life inside, this is a moody, atmospheric opener that signals something has gone very wrong in Gotham's future.