Dick Grayson To Become Nightwing Once More, Jason Todd Gets Own Title Too.
There’s something to be said for interesting storylines. Having Dick Grayson ascend to the Cowl while Bruce Wayne was off tripping the time stream fantastic was an excellent run. Having him wrestle with the concept of donning a mythos and making it his own while not wanting to fail his mentor gave me some of the more enjoyable moments of the past few years. But eh, who cares! Not DC, as they continue revealing their post-Flashpoint world.
It seems like it sucks.
Nightwing #1. Written by Kyle Higgins. Art by Eddy Barrows.
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Nightwing #1, a new ongoing series written by Kyle Higgins with art by Eddy Barrows, finds Dick dealing with the return of Haley’s Circus to Gotham City — the same big top attraction that he once performed under with his parents. In DC’s official announcement, the publisher confirms that Dick’s time as the Dark Knight is still relevant. It reads, “After a tenure as the Batman of Gotham, Dick Grayson resumes his mantle as Nightwing! As Dick embraces his identity, Haley’s Circus, the big top where he once performed with his family, returns to Gotham — bringing with it a history of murder, mystery and superhuman evil. Nightwing must confront friends and enemies from his past as he searches for the source of an even greater evil.”
Dick isn’t the only former Robin to be returning to the big time though, as the one and only Jason Todd gets an ongoing title of his own. Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 will be written by Scott Lobdell and drawn by relative newcomer Kenneth Rocafort. In it, Jason Todd finds himself as a leader of a team of antiheroes — including “Green Arrow’s rejected sidekick Arsenal and Starfire, a former prisoner of intergalactic war.”
“He’s proven to be such a popular character over the last several years with our DVD and also the recent limited series,” Marts said of Jason Todd. “The success of those stories helped in earning him his own new title and we’re lucky to have Scott Lobdell writing that storyline and Kenneth Rocafort on art, who is a great new talent that we’ve brought into the DC fold. Jason Todd’s group will have several different exciting characters from the DC Universe — some we’ve seen before and some we haven’t.”
Red Hood and the Outlaws #1. Written by Scott Lobdell. Art by Kenneth Rocafort.
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Thoughts?