Re: Lack of Supervillians
I started reading Nightwing during the Dixon/Land run, and always saw the lack of supervillians as a feature, and not a bug.
Between the hyper-realistic style, the focus on gang issues and corruption it seemed to me the book was very much about a spandex hero in a town with problems more complicated than spandex. Problems that were more likely going to be solved (as much as they were going to be solved) within the Police force than on a rooftop.