Books like Nightwing, Volume 2: Night of the Owls

The Court of Owls stuff is laid on really thick. I wish I could have enjoyed it more, because Nightwing is one of the more important books in that event. But it's weighed down with such horribly thick layers of inept symbolism that it just never really takes off.When Higgins is left to his own devices, though, this is a great book. Dick feels like the character I know, which is quite a different person than Bruce. And he should be. Yes, his book is slathered with the same "Gotham is DARK!" tones that make all the Batfamily books so grim, but he himself isn't really that grim in the middle of things. Serious about his role as Nightwing, of course, but not grim. It's nice. There's also a great zero issue that retells Dick's origin. This was really needed, after all the tweaks that have been made to his background. And really, more of the New 52 books, especially the Bat-books, should have done this. Flashpoint's sort of reset is a little confusing, as far as figuring what actually happened and what didn't.I liked the first volume of Nightwing, and I feel bad that I sort of forgot about looking up the second one. I have a lot of catching up to do now.