Nightwing #70 (2016) second print

'Joker War' starts here! Kinda!


Unlike many 'Prelude to' or 'Road to' or 'Journey to' or 'One to', Nightwing #70 makes one major non-mistake: It actually includes the Joker. It's not really a tease when he's in 5 out of 22 pages.


Where the problem comes in, and there is a problem, is that the storyline currently going on involves Dick's memories being manipulated by a magic crystal used by the Court of Owls. If you say that out loud, it will go down a little bit easier than the written version, but will still have the phrase 'magic crystal' in it. Marianne Williamson sold seperately.


So, we weigh: 5 Joker pages, Ryan Benjamin/Scott Hanna art that has a distinctly Rick Leonardi feel at times, and a story that can be caught up on starting here against some awkward Dan Jurgens' dialogue and the Joker holding a, oh jeez...'magic crystal'. I'd say its a coin flip, but Two Face is no where in sight. The excitement for 'Three Jokers' pushes it to a 6.