Grayson #16
Tom King, Tim Seeley (w) Mikel Janin (a)
DC Comics

Liz says: Grayson is my favourite ongoing series. I love it for a million reasons, the main one being that I have no idea what it is I’m going to love about it next. There are issues where the stakes are high and the suspense is killer. There are issues where it plays my heartstrings like the love-theme from Titanic. And there are issues, like this one, where it’s just pure, pure joy.

The past few issues have ratcheted up the ante for Dick Grayson. Having resolved to take down Spyral, Dick and his cranky partner Agent 1 are on the run and going after their fellow agents. There’s great tension as Dick’s former partner and current head of Spyral Helena Bertinelli decides how to neutralize her rogue agents, and when Dick turns to an unexpected source for help. But the real five-star moment of this issue, in what could have been a montage of rote action sequences, is when we get… a montage of action sequences, with Dick Grayson singing his own spy theme over the top of it – and it is absolutely glorious.

What I’ve loved most about Grayson is that it is constantly shifting and moving in surprising, unpredictable directions. The only thing I can ever expect from it is the unexpected, and that it’s going to be the most unforgettable thing I’ve read all week.