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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 7/12/14
Do any of you lovely readers know the best way to treat a sprained muscle? I pulled something in my calf and I’ve been limping around all week because I’m an idiot. And I don’t trust doctors, what with their voodoo and medical degrees. So anyone with a magical, non-voodoo cure is welcome here!
Fortunately, I don’t need my leg to read comics! We’ve got a somewhat light week this week, mostly because a lot of books I’ve already given up on were out this week, like Nightcrawler, Fantastic Four and Justice League United. Fortunately, we’ve got All-New X-Men, Captain Marvel and Batman Eternal to keep us company.
Not to mention the first issues of the New Suicide Squad and Grayson, which wins Comic Book of the Week for actually being pretty good (and because I couldn’t get my hands on the new Lumberjanes). Despite all the setbacks he’s faced, Dick Grayson at least keeps getting good, solid writers behind him in the New 52.
I guess now we know why Nightwing was blonde at Batsgiving
Comic Reviews: All-New X-Men #29, Batman Eternal #14, Captain Marvel #5, Grayson #1 and New Suicide Squad #1.
You can also check out my review of Spider-Man 2099 #1 at Word of the Nerd!
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.
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