Dick Grayson: Robin / Nightwing Appreciation 2020

[Se7en]

That Agent 37 preview was great. Man, what a step down Nightwing was. Would be cool if he becomes a Spy again but i won't hold my breath :/

[Ascended]

Agent 37! Man I miss that book so much.

Right? So good! My son and I just started watching Young Justice season 3 again (nobody is going too far these next few weeks, need some way to pass the time) and between that show and this preview....man, I'm missing my awesome badass super spy Grayson right now.

Sounds like the Justice Society. And we know what happened to them first chance Didio had.

I doubt Didio planned on the Titans generation having even as much presence as the JSA did. But Didio is gone, plans are changing, and the industry might very well find itself with some extra lead time, if distribution shuts down like everyone else. So who knows what we'll actually get come this fall? The odds might still be slim that anything substantially better will happen for Nightwing, but those odds are better now than they were a few months ago, and I'm gonna hope for the best.

[Digifiend]

the industry might very well find itself with some extra lead time, if distribution shuts down like everyone else.

Even if print distribution stops, nothing's stopping digital releases continuing on schedule.

[WonderNight]

That Agent 37 preview was great. Man, what a step down Nightwing was. Would be cool if he becomes a Spy again but i won't hold my breath :/

Tell me about man. I love nightwing but outside of the name and costume it has nothing. Grayson gives dick an entire genre and corner of the DCU to play with. So much potential.

[Jackalope89]

Tell me about man. I love nightwing but outside of the name and costume it has nothing. Grayson gives dick an entire genre and corner of the DCU to play with. So much potential.

That whole corner has been co-opted by Bendis and Leviathan.

[WonderNight]

That whole corner has been co-opted by Bendis and Leviathan.

well I never said dick would own the corner I said play in it.

[AmiMizuno]

So get rid of Nightwing everyone is saying? Can't he both be Nightwing and a Spy? I mean Nightwing is more popular than having him be a spy. There are already too many spies in the media in movies and in comics. What makes him stand out. I know the same can be said about him being a costumed hero. But still. You get the right person and it's easy. The spy thing can just be bad in the wrong hands. I mean Dick already has training in Espionage. So really he can be a spy with or without working for an agency. I mean wasn't be doing that in Young Justice? Using Haley's Circus as a cover to look around?

[WonderNight]

So get rid of Nightwing everyone is saying? Can't he both be Nightwing and a Spy? I mean Nightwing is more popular than having him be a spy. There are already too many spies in the media in movies and in comics. What makes him stand out. I know the same can be said about him being a costumed hero. But still. You get the right person and it's easy. The spy thing can just be bad in the wrong hands. I mean Dick already has training in Espionage. So really he can be a spy with or without working for an agency. I mean wasn't be doing that in Young Justice? Using Haley's Circus as a cover to look around?

He should be a spy as nightwing.

And so what if nightwing is more popular, it's most as a support character to batman and dick as robin is more popular than both. So should he go back to Robin?

Yes there are alot of spy's in media (because it's a cool concept) but how many of them has the crazy DCU as there playground?

The argument that Grayson or nightwing as a spy doesn't work because it could be bad in the wrong hands so why bother. I dont get that argument. You can say that about nightwing (I mean ric grayson anyone) superman, batman, wonder woman, justice league any book. Should dc not push those characters and book also or its just Grayson it has that problem.

Grayson is just better than nightwing.

[Drako]

DC will not get rid of Nightwing and you are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Nightwing #70:
spoilers:

Joker got that crystal macguffin with Dicks memories. It's even more clear now that he'll get his memories back at the end of Joker War.

end of spoilers

[Darkcrusade25]

DC will not get rid of Nightwing and you are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Nightwing #70:
spoilers:

Joker got that crystal macguffin with Dicks memories. It's even more clear now that he'll get his memories back at the end of Joker War.

end of spoilers

Wooww this is getting dragged to 2 yrs at this point. What did we do to deserve this

[Ascended]

Even if print distribution stops, nothing's stopping digital releases continuing on schedule.

That's true. Production can be done from home, so I don't really see current events throwing a wrench into things as far as comics go, but you never know. But even then, 5G isn't supposed to hit until close to the end of the year, so any awful, Didio-fueled 5G plans for Dick could be changed before it hits the pages.

Wooww this is getting dragged to 2 yrs at this point. What did we do to deserve this

We liked a character Didio didn't.

Oh, and put me down for "Nightwing: Super Spy" too. It's a great niche, DC barely does anything with it, and it fits Nightwing nicely. I don't know why DC backed off the idea. I get putting him back in costume; that was necessary, but dumping the entire spy angle seems like a massive waste.

[WonderNight]

DC will not get rid of Nightwing and you are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Nightwing #70:
spoilers:

Joker got that crystal macguffin with Dicks memories. It's even more clear now that he'll get his memories back at the end of Joker War.

end of spoilers

When did I say dc should get rid of nightwing? I said nightwing should be more than a name and costume. But I guess alot of fans them some over glorified sidekick status quos.

[Godlike13]

The only thing worse then actually having read the inexcusable lazy trash of a story that is Ric, is having these bum writers explain it over and over every damn issue. I couldn’t imagine trying to read this lazy trash in trade form.

Ugh, anyway the issue was just more of moving at a snails pace. Most of the issue consists of telling readers the story so far, from Ric, to Talon, to the crystal. There is only like 4 pages that actually moves the plot along. Which is more or less how every issue under Jurgans goes.

[Gotham citizen]

The only thing worse then actually having read the inexcusable lazy trash of a story that is Ric, is having these bum writers explain it over and over every damn issue. I couldn’t imagine trying to read this lazy trash in trade form.
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Like Joker said: «If you have to explain a joke, there's no joke!»

[Godlike13]

The Robin anniversary on the other hand, I loved it. It was more the story of Nightwing then of Robin. I have to give it to them, the way it was set up and presented was well done. And I’ve been hard on all those years at one time or another, but I thought they did a cool job a presenting a snapshot of Nightwing and Dick’s progression from the days of Wolfman to Seeley/Grayson. Which was hilarious btw.