Preview for Nightwing #7

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Courtesy of Newsarama

As Dick finds out what happened to Raymond/Saiko years before





Odd that Dick doesn't seem to be using his escrima sticks, they'd be useful when fighting someone with hand blades, no?

But anyway....



The raw rat diet is looking pretty good by comparison.

The Court of Owls are indeed bastards of the first water! (I may have my little quirks, but that's too extreme for me thanks)

Comments

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Don't get me started on the mess that was Flashpoint, for both our sakes. :) Presenting the shiny new universe as being a good thing because, simply put, Barry Allen fucked up the entire timeline, seems bizarre to me. FIXING the timeline should be the focus, not celebrating the half arsed job that St Barry did of it. That's like thanking Parallax for Zero Hour, or the Anti-Monitor for Crisis.

I think you're assuming I'm conflating the general and the specific. The fact the history overall has been changed, I have no real problem with, but altering fundamental concepts does annoy me. Certain truths hold to be self evident; Superman came from Krypton because it was blowing up, Batman became who he is because his parent's were shot in front of him, and Dick Grayson was a kid whose parents were killed by a mobster's protection racket and his idyllic exciting life in the circus replaced by a new life with Bruce Wayne as Robin.

Changing it so that he's a 16 year old is approaching the painful to start with and seems to highlight the sense of actual embarrassment some senior staff at DC have with their own history, making it so that his circus was actually run for the benefit of an evil hive of child torturing monsters is going way too far.

I'm not quite sure whether the Court of Owls existence before Flashpoint has any bearing on anything to be honest. This is the new "This is how it always was" status quo, and they are a part of it.