So, your logic is the next:
If Didio hates Tim, he wouldn't allow the superstar Bendis works on Young Justice with Tim (a profitable idea). Although it was Bendis idea to work with Young Justice and he has superstar power.
However, Didio hates Dick, but he allowed the talented (not superstar) King, Seeley and Janin to take Grayson. Although they had not superstar power at that time, so it would be easier to stop them (and the other option was Tynion).
The other option wasn't Tynion--he doesn't like the character and doesn't want to deal with him regardless. Didio doesn't hate Tim; thus he indulged Tynion to write all the "love letters" he wanted as long as Defective sold enough copies--he probably wouldn't have cared whether he wanted to write Nightwing or not as long as he could keep Defective on schedule. As far as Bendis goes, Didio is going to going to let The Big Superstar write anything he wants--he wouldn't stop him if he wanted to write Nightwing. But he doesn't--Bendis wants to write Timmy Wimmy. Therefore: Dick, Jason, and Damian need to be edged away for Tim's Big Royal Re-Rollout so that the company can pander to The Big Superstar Ego with all the accompanying fanfare. Bendis is a BIG DEAL, maybe rightly so.
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Titans is really showing how great it is when Dick leaves the Bat family. I feel the comics should follow and make Dick be more to the Titans than the Bat family. The Bat family does not treat him as an equal to Bruce, but in the Titans he is the leader and the guy who holds it together. In the Bat family, he is either just the moral compass or the hostage to make Bruce mad. His Titans role fit Nightwing better.
But DC hates the Titans in the comics. So we the fans are still screwed.
The Blonde Dick Grayson was planned for Batman Eternal. He was in the Batgivings picture they used to tease the event. This was before the delay of Forever Evil #7 and Nightwing #30 where they changed plan. Once they decided on the secret agent, he's taken off from the event.
I was hoping that blond Nightwing would come up in here again recently. I was thinking about it (for some reason) and the idea hit me...
Do we know that that was Dick? Given that he was a blonde, and that Tynion would've been writing it, what would've been the chances that it was supposed to be Calvin Rose?
It's the Dynamic Duo! Batman and Robin!... and Red Robin and Red Hood and Nightwing and Batwoman and Batgirl and Orphan and Spoiler and Bluebird and Lark and Gotham Girl and Talon and Batwing and Huntress and Azreal and Flamebird and Batcow?
Since when could just anybody do what we trained to do? It makes it all dumb instead of special. Like it doesn't matter anymore.
-Dick Grayson (Batman Inc.)
I thought it was Calvin Rose from the very beginning. It never occurred to me it might be Blond Grayson. IMHO, the problem with Waid wasn't that he was too big for Nightwing--he wasn't big ENOUGH to insist on what he wanted and actually get his way--like Bendis is doing. There is only a handful of writers with that much clout--Bendis, Gaiman, Ennis, Morrison, maybe a few others.
The blond guy is definitely Dick. Even Grayson #1 has a reference to this idea.
Yeah. I hear something about that.
Blond Dick would appear on Eternal (by Tynion). This would happen after Forever Evil, when Dick lost his Nightwing identity.
I wonder what would happen with the solo of Dick at that time. Maybe it would be cancelled for a time.
However, the idea of blond Dick and his presence in Batman Eternal were discarded. DC decided to use Grayson.
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