Issue Nightwing 17 Subtitle The Stalking Skies Date February 1998 Writer(s) Chuck Dixon Artist(s) Scott McDaniel, Karl Story storyline Dudley Soames awakened from his coma and learned it was impossible to ever be "straight" again. After stopping two people trying to shoot the man-bat down, Nightwing visited Francie Langstrom. He promised that he'd bring her husband - Dr. Kirk Langstrom - the Man-Bat - home. He and Man-Bat were both shot down with tranquilizer by Deathstroke.