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Nightwing #122 this week adds a passing encounter to Dick Grayson's past.
The end of issue #121 promised that with the likelihood that Dick's latest enemy - Olivia Pearce, super-weapons company CEO aggravating the conflicts of Blüdhaven and profiting thereby - was someone from his Robin past.
The run so far's had Pearce in the company of the " Cirque du Sin " and its mask-faced representative - the reason why not yet apparent.
Pearce has been an obvious challenge to Dick's current role in Blüdhaven, but not in a way immediately complementary to the Cirque du Sin as presented so far - to its face that casually exceeds whatever spatial bounds the scene so far's set.
Issue #122 opens on the effects of Pearce's dealings in Blüdhaven - on Nightwing meeting with the mayor Melinda Grayson-Lin and the commissioner of police Maggie Sawyer.
The latter described Nightwing in #121: " You assaulted an officer last night.
" You aided the Teddy Gang's escape from the law. "
(Another example of this run's neat engagement with the previous - the bit from the latter where Sawyer the supporting character in Superman books being appointed as Blüdhaven's police commissioner was considered a good thing.
This isn't contravening that - she's still shown as better than Blüdhaven's typical badge-wearing crooks - but it's alloying it by extrapolating her " hard cop " personality out to " fine with the collateral effects of giving Blüdhaven's not-criminally awful cops laser guns and jetpacks to fight crime ".)
Nightwing'd called a meeting with the two to explain whom he'd realized Pearce was - with a story from his Robin days, obscured enough to not link the two identities.
Back then, Batman and Robin'd met a Cirque du Sin - met a circus that'd taken some of Gotham's " rich and wealthy " for an audience and then just butchered them.
Batman handled most of them - Robin peeled off after one of their acrobatically talented members.
" Call me Colombina. " she said from her vantage point.
She laughed at him trying to understand " The point?
" .. The circus exists outside a ' point '!
She laughed at Batman's sidekick criticizing her " being taken in by a dark protector ".
(Even before the " adopted into a dangerous life " parallel, Colombina's blue complements Robin's red.)
(The Zanni is Olivia's looming acquaintance, continuing the " commedia dell'arte " motif by referring to a subset of its characters.
" Little circus boy " is the phrase Oracle found in Olivia Pearce's files that made her think about this past encounter of Nightwing's.)
Robin was left dazed - Batman, having dealt with the rest of the circus, found him and helped him up.
" Where's the girl? "
" Sh-she must have dosed me with something..
" We have to find her. "
" Don't worry, son..
" We never found a trace of her. " Nightwing said in the present.
" Until now. "
(Deftly done - until this bit, " Helios " just seems like the kind of mythological name people love to give weapons technology.
The early Christian Tertullian did not directly claim that Circe is the root of circuses, but he did relate the claims of those who did in his argument about the un-Christianity of enjoying " public shows ":
" Those who assert that the first spectacle was exhibited by Circe, and in honour of the Sun her father, as they will have it, maintain also the name of circus was derived from her. Plainly, then, the enchantress did this in the name of the parties whose priestess she was — I mean the demons and spirits of evil. "
Pagecount here's 3 and a little more than 9/10ths of 22 from Nightwing #122 this week.
Writing's Dan Watters, art's Dexter Soy, colors're Veronica Gandini, and letters're Wes Abbott.
Publisher's DC.)
The run so far's had Pearce in the company of the " Cirque du Sin " and its mask-faced representative - the reason why not yet apparent.
Pearce has been an obvious challenge to Dick's current role in Blüdhaven, but not in a way immediately complementary to the Cirque du Sin as presented so far - to its face that casually exceeds whatever spatial bounds the scene so far's set.
Issue #122 opens on the effects of Pearce's dealings in Blüdhaven - on Nightwing meeting with the mayor Melinda Grayson-Lin and the commissioner of police Maggie Sawyer.
The latter described Nightwing in #121: " You assaulted an officer last night.
" You aided the Teddy Gang's escape from the law. "
(Another example of this run's neat engagement with the previous - the bit from the latter where Sawyer the supporting character in Superman books being appointed as Blüdhaven's police commissioner was considered a good thing.
This isn't contravening that - she's still shown as better than Blüdhaven's typical badge-wearing crooks - but it's alloying it by extrapolating her " hard cop " personality out to " fine with the collateral effects of giving Blüdhaven's not-criminally awful cops laser guns and jetpacks to fight crime ".)
Nightwing'd called a meeting with the two to explain whom he'd realized Pearce was - with a story from his Robin days, obscured enough to not link the two identities.
Back then, Batman and Robin'd met a Cirque du Sin - met a circus that'd taken some of Gotham's " rich and wealthy " for an audience and then just butchered them.
Batman handled most of them - Robin peeled off after one of their acrobatically talented members.
" Call me Colombina. " she said from her vantage point.
She laughed at him trying to understand " The point?
" .. The circus exists outside a ' point '!
She laughed at Batman's sidekick criticizing her " being taken in by a dark protector ".
(Even before the " adopted into a dangerous life " parallel, Colombina's blue complements Robin's red.)
(The Zanni is Olivia's looming acquaintance, continuing the " commedia dell'arte " motif by referring to a subset of its characters.
" Little circus boy " is the phrase Oracle found in Olivia Pearce's files that made her think about this past encounter of Nightwing's.)
Robin was left dazed - Batman, having dealt with the rest of the circus, found him and helped him up.
" Where's the girl? "
" Sh-she must have dosed me with something..
" We have to find her. "
" Don't worry, son..
" We never found a trace of her. " Nightwing said in the present.
" Until now. "
(Deftly done - until this bit, " Helios " just seems like the kind of mythological name people love to give weapons technology.
The early Christian Tertullian did not directly claim that Circe is the root of circuses, but he did relate the claims of those who did in his argument about the un-Christianity of enjoying " public shows ":
" Those who assert that the first spectacle was exhibited by Circe, and in honour of the Sun her father, as they will have it, maintain also the name of circus was derived from her. Plainly, then, the enchantress did this in the name of the parties whose priestess she was — I mean the demons and spirits of evil. "
Pagecount here's 3 and a little more than 9/10ths of 22 from Nightwing #122 this week.
Writing's Dan Watters, art's Dexter Soy, colors're Veronica Gandini, and letters're Wes Abbott.
Publisher's DC.)