@Squalleon said:
@SmoothJammin said:
@Squalleon said:
Bludhaven is destroyed so that's not choice anymore.
I don't think that Nightwing should move to other town again.He finally got some roots in Gotham with the circus and the "Gray-Son"
Will the circus want to stay in Gotham, even after what happened in issue 16?
Will Dick even want to coexist with Bruce who withheld so much from the batfamily for that matter?
Will the circus be alive after Issue 16 is the right question :-P
Yeah i think that Dick will get some roots in Gotham and that Higgins didn't Build the Circus just to destroy it in one issue.I don't know what they have planed for the aftermanth but from the solitics it doesn't seem that Nightwing has any intention of leaving gotham.Probably he will retrain himself and will cut his ties to Bruce once again.
Well, in Kyle's defense when talks of DOTF got rolling I remember an excerpt Scott made about this event being a big welcoming party for Joker. Given the nature of the crossover if the character was to be used within other titles writers were to treat it as if this was their one shot at writing a definitive Joker story. New 52 Joker quickly became a wrecking ball. His existence lend itself to tearing the heroes world apart until there was nothing left standing. To writer Kyle Higgins it meant pulling out all the stops, at the expense of losing Raya, Jimmy, Amusement Mile and possibly Haly's Circus he's made well on his end of the deal.
Recently the way Nightwing's been put through the wringer it wouldn't surprise me if we we were hit with a tragedy on par with Chemo at the end, it's just the nature of the beast when you decide on collaborating with a maniac like Scott Snyder. The aftermath will deal with Dick drawing upon his innate ability to find hope in the darkest recesses of his self and overcoming unlike Bats who will be haunted by the attacks made on his family by his ghastly nemesis forever. Even it means soldiering on and leaving Gotham for a new locale I'm betting Dick will enable a complete payoff from this much like Black Mirror where at the finale he found his identity(something he couldn't say from the beginning)and ultimately came out stronger.
@Goldenboy_Prime said:
I chose other. Some guy on CBR came up with some amazing Vegas concept. It was brilliant. Most of the cities listed are easy to write as grim and Nightwing should be written in a different tone than Batman. Vegas is an entertainment based and vice laden city, a showman like Grayson would fit that scene pretty well. Also, I don't recall that city ever being heavily used in comics if at all.
I know they was no vote or response to this but, why would anyone got to Metropolis? Aren't Superboy and Supergirl based out of there along with Superman? I mean you should at least leave some lowly cannon fodder for the police to catch, you know show their worth.
Anyway if I can find that post I'll repost some of it's excerpts over here. Realistically though, I don't even care if he stays or leaves. I just a good direction to drive the freaking story and for them to stop tanking the character and mutilating his history. Am I asking for too much?
Haha yeah I've heard the Vegas pitch a couple times. I'll agree it crossed my mind when I created the topic I just didn't know how it would resonate among viners. What an opportunity both major companies are missing out on by not cashing their chips in on a marketable locale like sin city eh(zing!)? So much symmetry you can make within the context of the story and it's hero, it's an inversion of Gotham in many respects. I can see Nightwing ebbing and flowing with the tide of Vegas' crooked infrastructure.
The Metropolis touch was a product of my own curiousity. I figured since Supes was a huge inspiration for him growing up the first thing Dick would have on his mind as he left Batman's turf was visiting his cool relatable uncle, and reclaim some of the wholesomeness he lost whenever he decided to mainstay Gotham as Nightwing and forget about his Titan friends. Of course the general consensus would argue, in a city full of metahumans/supervillains what role can NW possibly play that isn't grasping at straws..? Allow me to break a couple options down.
A.) Metropolis very own vigilante hero. The city's southside hosts a crime ridden area so infested with gang activity and high murder rate even Superman can't bring himself to wipe it all out. This is of course known as Suicide Slums. My line of thinking was since Nightwing has experience in dealing with organized crime and working with the police this is the perfect backdrop for him. Many heroes have taken up residence there at some point in their costumed careers but none of those guys had the track record Grayson does. Superman's hands are usually full dealing with heavy hitters, the least Nightwing can do is extinguish the lower level threats inhabiting the lesser guarded projects. Every once in a while maybe you can even throw in a tango with Lex Luthor.
B.)Form up with Steel and have him work on an upgrade to the current costume, transitioning him into a Batman Beyond of sorts.. Doing so allows Grayson the freedom to combat rogues alongside Superman and maintain a semblance of uniformity to Metropolis' futuristic tone(i.e. the batman of tomorrow) It would be groundbreaking if it happened, and undoubtedly a huge turning point for the character in future issues. As a result the disparity in skill between Bruce and Dick's will dissipate from the current Mentor/sidekick dynamic it almost feels like nowadays. Leaves room in Gotham for Tim to come back and shift the focus on Batman's younger Robins development.
Idk man I dig it. Lets not forget, Snyder will eventually be moving to Superman. Both writers have been known to exchange story ideas and work together well on projects so I really think this could work. Dick Grayson is probably the only hero who has enough creative leeway to hop between titles without fear of scrutiny.
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