Dick Grayson: Robin/ Nightwing/ Agent 37 Appreciation 2021

[Pohzee]

I take it back for all the times I told Godlike that costume changes were bad because they were too radical and the changes I wanted were incremental. This is pretty much perfect.

[Drako]

Is that a costume redesign I see? Arms stripes, no boot swishes, boxing wraps, and a backpack none of which are seen in the current issue. Perhaps an Oracle inspired upgrade is in the works.

I didn't even notice the arm stripes! I liked a lot too!

[Avi]

The tiny backpack plus magnetic stripe is cool. Maybe a small costume change is why they teased the "Dick in front of his costume" panel.
Would be nice if we saw him tinker on it himself. Alfred just called him a problem solver after all.

A little sad that Dick's apartment complex is just gonna be empty. It makes more sense though, I guess, and he can still have noisy and interesting neighbors.

[Grayson - The Dark Heir]

I don't like that we're going back to Dick looking nude from the chest down again, but the other additions are super cool. Here's hoping that's an actual redesign concept and not just a scrapped concept for one (Bernard Chang had his own Nightwing redesign concept for Humphries run that went unused).

[Frontier]

I don't really think about where Dick keeps his escrima sticks that much but the backpack is pretty cool .

[dropkickjake]

I’m here for the arm stripes and boxing wraps. Hope those make it in. Boxing wraps would be a new take on his look for sure.

Re-the apartment not being the one from Dixon days. While this is likely true, nothing we’ve seen so far precludes this. There are almost certainly other tenets in the building as he specifically mentioned not wanting to raise the rent even though he was strapped for cash. And it looks like we are looking at two floors of the building there. In the issue Babs mentions being three floors up. So we likely aren’t looking at the full interior there, just a large two floor suite.

[Drako]

Nightwing #81

written by Tom Taylor
art by Bruno Redondo
cover by Bruno Redondo
Pride card stock variant cover by TRAVIS
MOORE $4.99 US| FC | DC
variant cover by Rafael Grassetti
card stock variant cover $4.99 US | FC | DC
ON SALE 6/15/2021
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC

Dick Grayson trades out his escrima sticks for a magnifying glass and a sleuth hat to investigate Blüdhaven’s new mayor, Melinda Zucco, and find out how the daughter of the man who murdered Dick’s parents came to power in Nightwing’s city. But his investigative adventure is cut short when he comes face to face with the most horrendous villain in the history of Blüdhaven—HEARTLESS.

[Drako]

Future State: Gotham #2

written by Joshua Williamson AND
Dennis Culver
art by Giannis Milonogiannis
cover by LADRÖNN
card stock variant cover by Derrick Chew
ON SALE 6/8/2021
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC
card stock variant cover $4.99 US | FC | DC

Tragedy has brought Gotham City to its knees. Countless people are dead, seemingly at the hands of the Next Batman. Gotham demands justice, and Red Hood has vowed to answer their call. Even if that means beating his way through Nightwing and the rest of the Bat-Family to do it.

[Restingvoice]

Nightwing #81

written by Tom Taylor
art by Bruno Redondo
cover by Bruno Redondo
Pride card stock variant cover by TRAVIS
MOORE $4.99 US| FC | DC
variant cover by Rafael Grassetti
card stock variant cover $4.99 US | FC | DC
ON SALE 6/15/2021
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC

Dick Grayson trades out his escrima sticks for a magnifying glass and a sleuth hat to investigate Blüdhaven’s new mayor, Melinda Zucco, and find out how the daughter of the man who murdered Dick’s parents came to power in Nightwing’s city. But his investigative adventure is cut short when he comes face to face with the most horrendous villain in the history of Blüdhaven—HEARTLESS.

First cover, it looks like he's interrupted in the middle of a dance number
Second cover, nice details but his whole arm and shoulder looks like he's made of rubber

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[Rakiduam]

So...Jason is going to beat him up too? ....Wow. This brand, new direction is doing wonders for Nightwing, really A list material.

[HsssH]

Taylor probably can't really influence what is happening in Future State title.

[byrd156]

BrunDo's design notes. A tiny backpack with magnet to hold the escrima sticks

It's Wingding, B

Inside his apartment, which is different than old Clancy's. By the looks of it, and how Dick is comfortable hanging out without mask outside the building, there's no other tenant or superintendent.


https://stxleslyds.tumblr.com/post/6...ightwings-suit

Such a great redesign.

[Badou]

He still has that bad looking bird head on his chest that looks so awkward to me. They need to get rid of that and do something with his legs where it isn't just all black from his chest down where it can look weird artist to artist. Making the escrima sticks do more is nice. They desperately need to give Dick more interesting equipment to spice up his encounters and allow for more creative fights and problem solving. Just having him do little flips and kicks gets so dull after a while, but having the escrima sticks turn into grappling hooks, nunchucks, and maybe even a bo staff or spear/blades in the future would help fix that some. Basically just turn them into some kind of multitool since they refuse to give Dick a utility belt.

Also it looks like from the solicits that Detective Comics #1038 isn't going to have anything to do with Robin or Dick's character. It is the 1000th anniversary issue of Dick's first appearance in Detective Comics #38 back in 1940 but it doesn't look like DC cared enough to do anything special for it. Feels like a missed opportunity there.

[Rac7d*]

I originally ignore syndercut discussions becuase I knew they had taken Dick Grayson off the board. It be nice if the flash movie could bring some version of him to us.

[WonderNight]

I originally ignore syndercut discussions becuase I knew they had taken Dick Grayson off the board. It be nice if the flash movie could bring some version of him to us.

That's what I'm hoping fo, bring dick back in flashpoint. Especially with batman on his why out of the dceu, it's the perfect time for nightwing to step up.