Nightwing #21

Nightwing stands tall and confident under a full moon, escrima stick in hand, while a seething swarm of rats surges across the rubble at his feet — it's a striking image that perfectly captures the gritty street-level tension of Dick Grayson's solo series. Scott McDaniel and Karl Story deliver a wonderfully dynamic low-angle composition that makes the hero loom large against Blüdhaven's moonlit skyline. Chuck Dixon's "False Starts" promises the kind of grounded, noir-tinged superhero storytelling that made this 1998 run so compelling.