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This was a nice quick read. It's a mobster crime story. Nightwing and Huntress have to prove who is the guilty party, but there is also the attraction between them. Very nice art on the series. Overall, if you like comics, you will probably like this. ( )

I read this more for the Huntress angle than the Nightwing one. This is my third graphic novel with Huntress listed in the title credits, and my eighth with Huntress as a lead character (the other four being Worlds' Finest volumes 1-5). Then there are two additional graphic novels wherein Huntress cameos. Nightwing, on the other hand, has only been in four prior graphic novels I've read as a lead character (plus two more wherein he cameoed).

Nightwing, though, has always been Dick Grayson in these graphic novels I've read. Huntress has been "played" by two different people. The five volumes of Worlds Finest, plus Huntress: Crossbow at the Crossroads, have involved Helena Wayne, daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle. This graphic novel here, and Huntress: Year One involved Helena Bertinelli, daughter of a mafia crime family. The two women kind of look like each other, both have, at times, been Huntress, and both have a criminal connection (Helena Wayne's being the daughter of Catwoman, if using Selina Kyle's name didn't tip you, whoever "you" might be, off). Otherwise, they're backstories are not the same. Helena Wayne is from Earth Two, while Helena Bertinelli is from whichever mainstream DC Universe earth might be (Earth 1?).

This four issue story involves a woman found dead in a mafia member's hotel room. A hotel room that was supposed to be used as an alibi. Frankie Black, that mafia member, was attempting to break free from the mafia so he needed an alibi in place so he could sell some guns (there's some mixed up way this would get him out, but meh). He wants out because he fell in love with a woman outside the mafia families.

Meanwhile, Nightwing has been shadowing Frankie Black. So he knows Black didn't do the crime. Separately, Huntress was . . . well, something. She was at the hotel when she learned the woman was killed and that the police believe that Frankie Black did it.

Nightwing, with a certain amount of reluctance, teams up with Huntress in more ways than one. Way one: they investigate together. Way two: they fuck (what, they didn't sleep together, no sleeping was involved).

Just to toss in: Batman's away "for the week", and Oracle keeps popping up to scream at Nightwing about how insane Huntress is or something like that.

Interesting enough story. I've never been that interested in Nightwing, and I wasn't that interested in seeing him "hook up" with Huntress. But the story was good enough to pass the time.

I've mentioned Helena Wayne before, so I suppose I should mention that (1) she's using the Huntress name in the current DC Universe (well, she was in New 52, New 52 is over now so . . . ); (2) she also used Helena Bertinelli's name as an alias. Meanwhile, the original Helena Bertinelli is supposedly (1) assumed dead; (2) turned up in another Dick Grayson series that came out recently, this time called "Grayson". Haven't read it so it's just "supposedly" at the moment.

ETA: Oh. I just realized I've actually read Devin Grayson before. She wrote a series called "User" back around 2001 that I read. And hated. I'm glad I didn't remember that before reading this graphic novel here, heh. ( )