DC Comics & Nightwing #81 Spoilers & Review: Nightwing Unmasked By His Enemy, But There’s A HUGE Twist?!

Spoilers

DC Comics and Nightwing #81 Spoilers and Review follows.

Nightwing Unmasked…

…By His Enemy, But…

…There’s A HUGE Twist?!

The book opens with Melinda Zucco being sworn in as Mayor or Blüdhaven…

…being feted by mob boss Blockbuster, his cronies including the city’s Chief of Police; all corrupt.

At the same time, Nightwing is taking on…

…Heartless who Nightwing underestimates.

Through some decent planning, threating kids on an exploded pier, Heartless escapes as the kids are saved by the Coast Guard or somesuch.

Nightwing wakes up, Oracle and Robin (Tim Drake) are there as is Nightwing’s new pup “Bitewing”; he also briefed up on who Mayor Zucco is.

She is Mob Boss Tony Zucco’s daughter, her dad killed Dick Grayson’s parents, so the history is deep; despite her not growing up with the Zucco Crime Family she was raised by equally corrupt Maroni Family.

Nightwing decides to have a talk with Mayor Zucco, but he’s taken out by her henchwoman and the Mayor herself.

He is then tied up and unmasked by her!

However, she has a secret too; she isn’t a Zucco, but a Grayson; she’s Dick’s sister?!

The Pulse:

Two intriguing plots and one startling cliffhanger.  I wonder if Mayor Zucco’s rap sheet with FBI is even real; is she an agent? Curious to see where this goes. Great art too. 9 out of 10.

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