Dick Grayson: Robin, Nightwing, Agent of Spyral - Appreciation

[TheCape]

Since the Chuck Dixon they've laid the groundwork repeatedly for a strong supporting work and then destroyed in a major crossover or jettisoned by a new creative team.

You had Clancy, John Law, Hogan, Amy, and Amygdala then Devin Grayson blew up 1013 Parkthrone killing most of them off and then they sent him to New York.

Higgins had the nice beginnings of a supporting cast with the circus then killed them off with Death of the Family and sent him off to Chicago. Then with Joey, Michael, you have a nucleus of a new supporting cast, but his run ends with the destruction of his identity in Forever Evil and it is implied the duo was killed when his apartment building was blown up.

In Grayson you have Helena, Tiger, the Skull Girls, Ashemore, etc. and then powers that be send him back to being Nightwing.

New Nightwing you have again the ground work with the Run-offs, Svobada, but I doubt Humphries will make use of any of them.

I would love to see the Run-offs stick around with Svobada, perhaps bring back some oldies like Clancy (maybe make her a resident med student who ends up patching him back together when he needs it.) Bring the Skull Girls to Bludhaven with the idea they want to become Nightwing vigilantes and want him to teach them how. There are so many possibilities.

Yup, Dick suffers from the "Wonder Woman Syndrome" , none of the attempts to create a world around don't seem to stick.

[WonderNight]

See I told you nightwing/wonder woman fit make it happen dc

[WhipWhirlwind]

God no.

It is pretty terrible. The team have no purpose, they can barely handle minor threats, there is a lot of forced drama. Booths art is painfully bad. Dick is written as a generic leader type, Garth a generic strong man etc. Plus, we now have the JL putting them on a timeout, which would be demeaning to the Teen Titans, let alone a team of young adults.

Wow, really hard to believe this.

[WonderNight]

not really, DC still views nightwing and his generation as sidekicks. which is dick biggest problem of all. dickbat and agent37 didn't have this problem.

[Fergus]

Agent 37 burns Lex and Kite Man

[Fergus]

Robins

[Rac7d*]

Is this a good time to pick up Titans now?

The arc just completeed s if you wanted to get caught up
Its kinda like MTVS the real world combined with superheros.

Their an anger about them being Local in caomparison to the JL but that what they are suppose to be, to fill the need when the time arises. So they get to be more laid back and fun. They been dealing with less external conflic and more internal, considering so many of thease chracters have been locked away developing them as chracters now is a must. Thats not a bad thing. Donna never been solid and WW ignores her so figure ut who she is now is nice. They do seem to regress to teenagers when they get together I personally find it funny and I think it speaks to their familarity with one another since they have know each other since. Garth and Roy are defintly more serious when guest staring in theor mentors solos. Lilth is an odd piece, her purpose on the team is necessary but she feels distant sometimes. Karen is also seems placed for diversity, I would trade for Starfire honestly in a heartbeat

[Frontier]

Agent 37 burns Lex and Kite Man

This seems kind of in bad-taste in light of the recent reveals about Kite-Man...

[Fergus]

This seems kind of in bad-taste in light of the recent reveals about Kite-Man...

I don't acknowledge the Kingunity that's going on in Batman.

[Aahz]

teams are only as big league as it's roster and the has "big hitters" A-B listers and the titans minus nightwing and flash have all C-D listers. titans needs some more higher proflie heros to be a big league team.

The thing is just, that there aren't really many "higher profile heroes" that you could put on titans (especially if you don't want to bring in "siblings" of the current members).

The only ones can thing of are Kyle Rayner (or alternatively maybe one of the new Lanterns) and maybe Supergirl (the current version might be a little bit to young), everybody else is either to young, to old or also not really much more popular than the classic Titans (and having the classics together gives the whole thing at least some additional nostalgic value).

[yohyoi]

Yup, Dick suffers from the "Wonder Woman Syndrome" , none of the attempts to create a world around don't seem to stick.

Dick does have a Wonder Woman Syndrome. It's so weird for these characters, even with hundreds of solo issues, to not have their own permanent place and lore.

[Godlike13]

not really, DC still views nightwing and his generation as sidekicks. which is dick biggest problem of all. dickbat and agent37 didn't have this problem.

Dick was Agent 37 in Titans Hunt and Batman and Robin Eternal.

Dick does have a Wonder Woman Syndrome. It's so weird for these characters, even with hundreds of solo issues, to not have their own permanent place and lore.

Except here we are 10+ years later with Bludhaven.

[yohyoi]

Except here we are 10+ years later with Bludhaven.

It took a while to get back in Bludhaven. We aren't even sure if DC will sideline Bludhaven again, so Dick could do other stuff or be DickBats/Agent37 again. If we do 4 years without removing Dick from Bludhaven, then maybe we can say Bludhaven is there to stay.

[oasis1313]

It took a while to get back in Bludhaven. We aren't even sure if DC will sideline Bludhaven again, so Dick could do other stuff or be DickBats/Agent37 again. If we do 4 years without removing Dick from Bludhaven, then maybe we can say Bludhaven is there to stay.

I liked Bludhaven better when Chemo spit on it.

[Pohzee]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMRW1Wu5rGo
Interview with Humphries.

Takeaways:

-Some people here guessed right. Dick’s job will be spoilers:

a gym owner and trainer.

end of spoilers

-More interestingly, Humphries said that while he believes that Dick would probably get a Blue Lantern ring, he personally views him as a Red Lantern. That probably gives us more insight into his take on the character than any other promotional info we’ve been given.