Read a lot of Tom Taylor’s runs on Nightwing and Superman Son of Kal-El from a few years ago, and they’re excellent. Taylor is a writer who’s very good at getting to the core of characters and presenting them succinctly and consistently, as he first showed in his Injustice (yes, the fighting game based on an alternate DC continuity where Superman’s a fascist and Batman is a broken revolutionary) comics, where this made the Injustice comics far, far better than they had any right to be. And here, he gets to the heart of both characters extremely well.
Nightwing isn’t just a younger and more acrobatic Batman, he’s a genuinely optimistic hero who’s seen the worst of what the DC universe has to offer and still sees the best in everyone, and is thus just a much better leader, hero, and friend than his mentor; his main storyline (he uses his inheritance from Alfred to do what Alfred would actually have wanted and make Bludhaven a better place one block at a time) works fantastically well for this. Jon Kent draws equally on both his parents to see the best in everyone but also to see the truth, refusing to rush to confrontation but instead make peace and offer compassion in ways that even his father can’t do. The inclusion of Jay Nakamura, Jon’s boyfriend who is an investigative reporter with a secret identity, and the Revolutionaries, characters from Taylor’s short-lived Suicide Squad run who are basically honest superhero antifa*, are both delights. It’s great to see someone doing something genuinely fresh and new yet classic and positive with superhero comics.
*The Revolutionaries are a rare rejection of that superhero trope where “people who want to overthrow the status quo are wrong, manipulated, or just evil” and instead are mostly just right about everything.
