Nightwing (Volume 4) #110 is an issue of the series Nightwing (Volume 4) with a cover date of March, 2024. It was published on January 16, 2024.
Synopsis for "Nightwing: Beast World"
On the first day of the Beast World event, a big game hunter turned serial murderer known as Apex Ava is imprisoned in Arkham Tower for her crimes. She is terminally ill with Sakutia and expected to die within days. A spore comes into her cell and she breaks off a spoke from her wheelchair and stabs it through the eye. She bites a chunk off the spore and eats it, her eyes glowing green. When an orderly comes in she murders him and escapes.
Three days later, Nightwing calls Jon Kent and tells him that Damian Wayne is missing. They meet up in Gotham and Jon scans for Damian's heartbeat but can't hear it, meaning he is either dead or has changed so that his heartbeat is no longer recognisable. They go to the Iceberg Lounge looking for information, and the Cobblepot siblings tell them about "The Pit", a literally underground arena where Beast-People are forced to fight.
Damian goes to the Pit in disguise while Jon hangs back to avoid being possessed. Damian, transformed into a cat, is set against a bear and is initially viciously beaten. However, just as Superman and Nightwing are about to intervene Apex Ava, who is now green and possesses the power to control the spores, orders him to fight. Damian viciously attacks and overpowers the bear, and is just about to kill it when Jon and Dick both swoop in to stop him. They carry Damian up to the surface and destroy the spore when it leaps out to possess Superman.
Apex Ava and the Pit's customers attempt to evacuate, but Nightwing and Robin collapse the tunnel in and beat them up while Superman carries the arena to the surface. Ava gets away by transforming into a bird, revealing that she has shapeshifting powers like Beast Boy, but the heroes turn the rest of the people in the Pit over to the authorities, and deliver the Beast-People to Gotham Zoo to be held until they can be treated.
Appearing in "Nightwing: Beast World"
Featured Characters:
- Nightwing/Robin (Dick Grayson)
- Robin/"Mister Mittens" (Damian Wayne) (Transformed) (First appearance as Mister Mittens)
- Superman (Jon Kent)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Apex Ava (Name revealed) (Flashback and main story) (First full appearance)
- Beast Boy/"Garro" (Garfield Logan) (Behind the scenes)
- Star Conqueror Spores (Flashback and main story)
- Beast-People
- Gail the Slayer (Single appearance)
- Beast-People
- Star Conqueror Spores (Flashback and main story)
- The Pit's host (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
Other Characters:
- Addison Cobblepot
- Aiden Cobblepot
- Arkham Tower staff (Flashback only)
- Kenneth (Single appearance) (Dies in flashback)
- Gotham City Police Department (Cameo)
- Amanda Waller (Mentioned only)
- Gotham Blades (Mentioned only)
- Commissioner Montoya (Mentioned only)
- Ra's al Ghul (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth 0
- United States of America
- Bludhaven (Cameo)
- Titans Tower (Cameo)
- Gotham City (Flashback and main story)
- Arkham Tower (Flashback only)
- Gotham Blades arena/"The Pit" (First appearance)
- Gotham State Penitentiary
- Gotham Zoo
- Iceberg Lounge
- Metropolis
- Daily Planet (Cameo)
- Bludhaven (Cameo)
- Australia (Mentioned only)
- Lamumba (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
Items:
Concepts:
- Beast World
- The Cataclysm (Mentioned only)
- The Red (Behind the scenes)
- Sakutia
Notes
- This story takes place after the events of Titans: Beast World #4.
Trivia
- The cover of this issue is a reference to the Woman Yelling At A Cat meme.
See Also