YMMV / Nightwing (Rebirth)

• Arc Fatigue: The Ric Grayson arc lasted for two years, and multiple creative teams. Most fans were calling for the story to end after the first year, if not earlier.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: Dick losing his memories and becoming Ric Grayson. This was exacerbated by the fact that DC Comics co-publisher Dan Didio was well-known for considering Nightwing his Creator's Pest: the whole premise seemed to fans to be just the latest in a long line of attempts to destroy the character.
• Awesome Art: As much distaste as there is for Lobdell and "Ric", Travis Moore's art is stunning.
• Broken Base:
  • There are those who want Dick Grayson to be an international spy and those that want to see him tackle street-level crime in Bludhaven. Writer Tim Seeley attempts to mend the divide by alternating between globetrotting arcs and Bludhaven arcs.
  • Issue 15, where the relationship between Dick and Shawn is developed, split reception for people, much of which is due to shipping, but the crux is the decision to have a single issue chronicle a two-month long period of their relationship, cutting out everything in-between to fit this development into one story. For some, telling the whole story in a single issue was a terrible way to go about it as it made them feel artificial. For others, it was a relief to see such development dealt with so quickly instead of slowly stretching it out across multiple issues, and the attention to their ups and downs in this time period allowed them to make it feel real despite the short nature.
  • Damian's handling. Some like that his brotherly relationship with Dick is further developed (culminating in Damian admitting his fears of things changing and him losing Dick as brother/father figure) and that he's written in a lighthearted and snarky way. Others feel that this ruins him in more dramatic and serious scenes, and that certain scenes, such as when he jokes about killing Dollotrons (especially notable, as one of his first failures as Robin involved not being able to save one), feel more than a bit out-of-character, as he seemingly has lost a lot of his development.
• Contested Sequel: To Grayson. While some fans and critics enjoyed Tom King's writing and the previous series' experimental take on the spy genre, others prefer Nightwing for being a traditional superhero comic.
• Continuity Lockout: It's necessary to read Robin War and, by extension, Night of the Owls to understand why Nightwing is working for an organized crime group during the first arc. Additionally, the second half of Seeley's run follows up on the events of Grayson, with that book's supporting cast becoming much more involved as Spyral gets entangled in the Bludhaven conspiracy. This is lampshaded by an editor's note:
  "Be one of the cool kids and go read Grayson!"
• Die for Our Ship: In response to shippers calling for her death, writer Tim Seeley bluntly stated "no" to killing off Shawn Tsang anytime soon. To give a reference for how bad the hate for Shawn is from Dick/Babs and Dick/Kori shippers, but by 2022, people were still bashing her character/the decision to introduce her.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: A group of regular people taking up the mantle of Nightwing while Dick was out of commission during the Ric storyline came across to some as a retread of We Are Robin.
• Mis-blamed: Tom King gets incorrectly blamed for the much-hated Ric Grayson storyline: although it was King's idea to have Dick shot in the head, the idea of him getting amnesia came from Scott Lobdell.
• Seasonal Rot: Issue 50 took a really sharp turn downwards as this is the start of the infamous Ric arc that lasted for more than a year.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: The development of new love interest Shawn Tsang in Nightwing complicates an already contentious shipping war with both Starfire and Barbara Gordon, both of whom have shared Ship Tease with Nightwing across different titles in DC Rebirth. This is somewhat alleviated by Nightwing writer Tim Seeley writing both women as being understanding as opposed to petty, taking an Amicable Exes approach with the former, and an I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy approach with the latter. That, and Shawn is already becoming something of an Ensemble Dark Horse among fans who aren't heavily invested in one particular ship.
• The Scrappy: Dick's somewhat new personality as Ric is heavily disliked by fans thanks to his Wangst and Darker and Edgier bad boy attitude, his Jerkass treatment to the Batfamily and he took up taxi driving for a living. It was to the point that fans were begging for DC to bring Dick back as soon as possible.
• Vocal Minority: Shawn Tsang gets a lot of vitriol, to this day, from some fans simply for existing and not being who they want Dick to be with. For people who don't care enough either way about Dick's shipping preferences though, she was one of the best parts of the run. This in itself extends to Tim Seeley's run as a whole; most Nightwing/Batfamily fans remember it quite fondly and it was considered one of the stronger Rebirth titles, but some fans (again, mostly shippers), claim the run was an example of everything wrong with how Dick has been treated by modern DC because he came off as a "womanising playboy" for having Dick start a monogomous, serious relationship with a woman he loved who loved him back, and Shawn Tsang was "proof of Tim Seeley's misogyny" because she was a love interest to a male character, despite how Shawn had her own arc, friends, and Character Development away from Dick.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Bea Bennett was considered by many to be one of the best parts of the Ric storyline, especially due to her volunteer work in soup kitchens and as an advocate for the homeless. This would have made her fit very well with Tom Taylor's run, with its themes about wealth and poverty, but she was Put on a Bus after Dick got his memories back.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: During the "Blockbuster" arc, Tiger Shark assembles Superman and Green Arrow's rogues galleries to hunt down Nightwing aboard his ship. Although this made for many interesting moments as the villains either work together or butt heads against each other, there is surprisingly no interaction between Shado and her sworn enemy Count Vertigo, who meet for the first time since she escaped his dungeon back in Green Arrow (Jeff Lemire).

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