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Chuck Dixon continues his run with the latest collection of classic Nightwing stories in NIGHTWING VOL. 7: SHRIKE.Life for Nightwing has never been this good! He's starting a promising career as a Bldhaven police officer, he's dating longtime crush Barbara Gordon, a.k.a. Oracle, and he is systematically dismantling the criminal empire that infests his new hometown. But Dick Grayson has made a potentially fatal mistake, and that mistake's name is Blockbuster. Down but not out, the kingpin of Bldhaven has hired the ultimate assassin to kill Nightwing: the villain known only as Shrike. This costumed killer has an advantage over all the other hired goons whom Blockbuster has sent against Nightwing; Shrike knows that Nightwing is Batman's former sidekick, Robin, and the two young martial artists trained together when they were teenagers.
About the Author
Charles "Chuck" Dixon is an American comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs on titles in the 1990s. His earliest comics work was writing first for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going series) , on which he worked with his then-wife, the artist Judith Hunt. His big break came one year later, when editor Larry Hama hired him to write back-up stories for Marvel Comics' In 1986, he began working for Eclipse Comics, writing with artist Tim Truman. Continuing to write for both Marvel and (mainly) Eclipse on these titles, as well as launching with artist Tom Lyle in August 1987 and with artist Paul Gulacy in October 1987, he began work on Carl Potts' series for Marvel's Epic Comics imprint, under editor Archie Goodwin. He also produced a three-issue adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's for Eclipse with artist David Wenzel between 1989 and 1990, and began writing in June 1989. His (August, 1990) led to him working on the monthly (and later, more monthly and occasional titles) , and also brought him to the attention of DC Comics editor Denny O'Neil, who asked him to produce a mini-series. The mini proved popular enough to spawn two sequels - (1991) and (1992) - which led to both an ongoing monthly series (which Dixon wrote for 100 issues before leaving to work with CrossGen Comics) , and to Dixon working on from #644-738 through the major Batman stories (for which he helped create the key character of Bane) , and . Much of his run was illustrated by Graham Nolan. He was DC's most prolific Batman-writer in the mid-1990s (rivalled perhaps in history by Bill Finger and Dennis O'Neil) - in addition to writing
