Nightwing Lives! Becomes Secret Agent!
Looks like we were right: Dick Grayson is going to survive Forever Evil! But it seems he’ll be giving up the superhero lifestyle to become a spy.
For some reason.
He’s OK with guns now
Revealed by USA Today, Dick will be the star of a new series called Grayson, because apparently somebody finds that more marketable than Nightwing? Maybe?
According to the interview, Batman knows Dick is alive, and orders Dick to become an undercover spy for the agency Spyral. The new writers hope it will be an international caper sort of book, with Dick dodging bullets and fighting bad guys. The writers are Tim Seeley and Tom King, himself a former CIA agent.
Of the new series, King says:
“He’s doing something that’s going to cause pain to his friends and family, but he believes in the cause. That tension between having to do something good but having the cost of it being pain to his family, it drives him a little crazy.”
The new series will start in July.
I’m not sure what to think about it. Definitely an interesting direction to send Dick Grayson, but then DC gave Dick half a dozen new directions in his short-lived New 52 series. Remember when his moving to Chicago was supposed to be a big deal? Dick Grayson definitely needs a solid, permanent status quo. He needs some grounded storytelling. Is this the answer? I have no idea. It’s kind of insane, really. Dick Grayson as a random super spy? I mean…I guess. It’s really all going to come down to the quality of the work itself. There’s almost no predicting how this series will be at this point. Either Seeley and King write a good comic or they don’t.
I’m sure Dick will be back to being Nightwing before too long.
Posted on April 14, 2014, in Batman, Comics, DC, Robin and tagged Dick Grayson, Grayson, Nightwing. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
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Ugh, on the one hand I can see the potential drama that can come out of this: Dick is used to working by his own rules so he would struggle working within he system, plus there’s the whole pretending to be dead thing (that means he can’t call Babs whenever he needs cheats?).
On the other hand, it’s Nightwing, he wears tights spandex and makes quips. What’s he gonna do now, seduce drug ladies and spy on the Russians?
Guess I should just be grateful the reboot-trigger-happy writers didn’t manage to off him.
You make some good points. Is this going to be like every other spy story that ever existed? I really hope the writers have some legitimately good ideas for this and aren’t just going to do the most generic spy stories imaginable.
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