>Tim Seeley, who wrote Nightwing’s mask-less spy adventures in the pre-“Rebirth” series, “Grayson,” is reunited with the character, and will be writing from a slightly more “super” perspective.
>“The original design of [Dick Grayson] is so perfect, he really does translate into so many different genres and potential stories,” Seeley told The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs. “I think that’s what’s made him such a fan favorite.”
>In the “Rebirth” issue of “Nightwing,” which debuted on July 13, Seeley said the character hasn’t left his spy days behind him.
>“That’s Dick’s [discovery] via my own revelation having worked on ‘Grayson’ and finding out that this character works so well in espionage related genre. We’re adding that skill to [Nightwing’s] repertoire,” Seeley said. “I think because the Batman characters tend to be so Gotham-focused, there’s some real value in having one of their members who is pretty good at globe hopping and he’s so adaptable that he can go to all of these places and instantly charm his way in.”
>“With the Parliament [of Owls], the idea was to expand a lot of what [the Court of Owls] ideas were, but into this new context of elitist, rich, international cabal that believes they shouldn’t have to follow the rules and laws of the rest of the world because they’re just that much better,” Seeley said. “These are people that want to create their own country to not have to deal with the riffraff of the world.”
>While convincing the Parliament of Owls that he is working for them, Nightwing will be forced to work with their muscle, a masked man called Raptor, a character Seeley said is a darker version of Nightwing.
Samuel Rivera
It's a lettered preview user.
Sauce: WaPo
Nathaniel Fisher
>“The relationship we want to play with there is that Raptor will sort of be a reflection of Dick’s relationship with Batman,” Seeley said. “He’s someone that is actually more like Dick in a lot of ways than Batman is, but philosophically he’s going to be the opposite.”
>Batman and members of the bat-family will play a more prominent role in this series, with Nightwing once again having a brotherly bond with Batman’s son — who is also the current Robin the Boy Wonder, Damian Wayne — and continuing to be flirty at times with Barbara Gordon/Batgirl.
>“It was important to re-establish those relationships right off the bat and to see how that effects the way Dick is handling going out on his own and making his own choices, and how does that affect his desire to be connected to all these people he cares about,” Seeley said.
Asher Johnson
>Seeley also plans to explore what it means when someone has been a crime-fighter his entire life, as is the case with Nightwing.
>“We’ll ask how much of [Nightwing’s] life is still influenced by being that kid from the circus who never really had a permanent home, who didn’t live the standard life of the American teenager before being taken in by Batman” Seeley said. “Dick really is sort of the only character who comes into being a superhero as that being the [only] job he knows.”
>The title of the first issue of “Nightwing” is “Better Than Batman,” a title Seeley hopes fans will think about.
Luis James
>“It’s supposed to be a question to a degree. Is this about Dick being better than Batman? Is it about Raptor being better than Batman?” Seeley hinted. “I hope that as [the series] goes on we start to question how many different ways someone can be better than Batman. Is that question of a better friend, father, mentor, superhero? All those things hopefully come into focus as we go on to the first several issues.”
> “That’s Dick’s [discovery] via my own revelation having worked on ‘Grayson’ and finding out that this character works so well in espionage related genre. We’re adding that skill to [Nightwing’s] repertoire,”
> While convincing the Parliament of Owls that he is working for them, Nightwing will be forced to work with
HOW CAN HE BE SO BASED
Ethan Bennett
>that "enter your email to continue reading this article" bullshit Thanks anyway: archive.is/1R7AQ
Lucas Russell
>with Nightwing once again having a brotherly bond with Batman’s son — who is also the current Robin the Boy Wonder, Damian Wayne — and continuing to be flirty at times with Barbara Gordon/Batgirl. Yes, perfect
Parker Wright
Posting the variant (textless though) right away to finally end this lettered preview (which WaPo didn't include).
Jacob Anderson
>Council of the Parliament
Well that's just redundant
Joshua Williams
>(which WaPo didn't include) It applies to the variant to avoid confusion with my previous post.
Connor Perry
>and continuing to be flirty at times with Barbara Gordon/Batgirl Ew
Jace Lopez
Isn't she in China getting frisky with some Chinese dude? And wasn't she with Duke before that? Does Dick want to be turn down a second time?
Seriously, enough is enough. Dick and Babs suck together in multiple continuities. The only way they work together is if the writers acknowledge that they're two shameless sluts who are aware of that fact.
Nolan Clark
Neil Patrick Grayson
Jace Hall
DICK
Jack Cruz
This art is very Scott McDaniel esqe.
Ian Lewis
>And wasn't she with Duke before that? Duke is a teenager. All black guys are the same to you?
Noah Mitchell
why does he have fetal alcohol syndrome
Caleb Hall
>and continuing to be flirty at times with Barbara Gordon/Batgirl.
disgusting
Dominic Gonzalez
>Paying off student loans Offcourse you don't need to worry about that if your guardian is a fucking billionaire.
Adrian White
They should have made him a complete Talon. If it was just about the clothes or the title, why couldn't they have turned him into agent Nightwing of Spyral.
Zachary Gomez
It's been a while since I've read a comic that uses narration boxes that doesn't disrupt the flow of the story. The writer here just uses them to establish a frame of mind, and connect different scenes together. He still lets the artist depict the events that happen in the comic itself.
Compare that the Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, which has to explain every single little thing. Or one of those shitty Red Hood books.
Lincoln Barnes
Seeley was the one to come up with the idea to ditch the caption boxes for Grayson, IIRC.
Seeley really is a good writer.
Isaiah Gomez
I give some slack to the BoP writers since they're new, they can evolve their style as they gain more experience
Anthony Taylor
So Barbara is gonna get DICKED again?
Christian Clark
Hopefully never Dick/Babs is an awful pairing
Joshua Scott
But Dick/Helena MFW
Gavin Walker
Kek shit fucking taste confirmed. Maybe New 52 Barb but normal Barb and Dick work great cause shes the pupil Batman didn't want at first, always trying to prove herself and takes herself seriously.
Dick is the pupil Batman wanted, raised him to be the best, but Dick doesn't take himself seriously at all because of this.
They are opposites of the same coin and work great together when written properly.
Jeremiah Garcia
Should I read this?
Samuel Robinson
Unh... no? She was with the David guy, right? The Batwing fella?
Oliver Collins
>Maybe New 52 Barb but normal Barb and Dick work great cause shes the pupil Batman didn't want at first, always trying to prove herself and takes herself seriously.
No, Dick/Babs is awful. Fuck you.
Logan Perry
Yeah it was good.
Jonathan Watson
Kek thats all you can say after I just stated why they were a good pair.
Fucking idiot fagelo.
Carson Wilson
DCAU Bruce go back to bed.
Cameron Cooper
Dixon YOU go back to bed
Caleb Stewart
Luke Fox, the second Batwing, I think.
Hudson Foster
This is shaping up to be the best Rebirth book aside from Batman and and maybe Deathstroke. Seeley has REALLY grown as a writer.
Jordan Moore
He's at his best when he gets to plot out his stories. His indie work like Hack Slash and Revival are good. Grayson was mainly full of his ideas. His New Suicide Squad was really fun. His stuff on Eternal was underwhelming because he was just following Tynion's design.
Luke Adams
Did you mix up Batman and Green Arrow in this post or something?
Landon Roberts
No, Batman has been really good. Green Arrow hasn't. What's there to mix up?
Andrew Perry
>Batman has been really good. Green Arrow hasn't.
peak pleb
Blake Miller
Oh look it's a shipperfag. "Oliver and Dinah are together again! Everything has been fixed!"
Daniel Johnson
my man, ironic shitposting is still shitposting
Josiah Johnson
...
Zachary Davis
Thinking that "You will not objectify me, I am a weapon!" is good writing is also shitpoting
Juan Clark
I hope Helena cucks Babs again by getting to Dick first
Jose Gomez
>who is pretty good at globe hopping and he’s so adaptable that he can go to all of these places and instantly charm his way in.
you mean like literally every other bat-character around
Henry James
>>The title of the first issue of “Nightwing” is “Better Than Batman,” a title Seeley hopes fans will think about. >>“It’s supposed to be a question to a degree. Is this about Dick being better than Batman? Is it about Raptor being better than Batman?” Seeley hinted. “I hope that as [the series] goes on we start to question how many different ways someone can be better than Batman. Is that question of a better friend, father, mentor, superhero? All those things hopefully come into focus as we go on to the first several issues.”
Cringe, Nightwing fans really are desperate for relevance. How pretentious can you get.
Cooper Williams
most of the batfamily don't even leave gotham and if they do, hate it and want to go back to gotham
Carson Thomas
Timm get some sleep
Elijah Ross
Dick, Barbara, and Damian are all leaving Gotham (for now)
Angel Hall
Really not liking Seeley's writing so far.
The narration and dialogue both have a lot of exposition that just doesn't flow naturally. I just feel like nothing in this preview really works, the "parliament" name joke is terrible and it's followed by really generic villain dialogue.
One of the biggest disappointments of Rebirth so far for me. It feels like such a step down from the Seeley/King run.
Aaron Morales
Do you have trouble with reading comprehension or something?
Michael Williams
Like, a repeat of that scene where Dick is facetiming Barbara in the middle of the night in Helena's kitchen?
Because LOL.
Ayden Cooper
sure why not
Michael Ramirez
Don't know how to break this to you brah but Babs already cucked Helena in Grayson.
