Well, it's official - Interview with Grant Morrison confirms new Dynamic Duo ID's

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(Sadly it's not the pairing from my icon, but you can't have everything)

From new interview with Grant Morrison at IGN here

IGN Comics: So let's talk about the new team of Dick Grayson and Damian. What's their dynamic like?

Morrison: There's just real friction between them. Damian doesn't respect Dick Grayson at all, and Dick Grayson is kind of this consummate superhero. The guy has been Batman's partner since he was a kid, he's led the Teen Titans, and he's trained with everybody in the DC Universe. So he's a very different kind of Batman. He's a lot easier; He's a lot looser and more relaxed. At the same time Damian is pretty hard to deal with. The characters are just amazing fun to write. Sparks fly all around them.

IGN Comics: You've said this is all part of the greater Batman story you're telling. I'm assuming you knew you wanted to bring Dick and Damian in once you took Bruce Wayne off the map with RIP and Final Crisis. I think some fans are wondering why you didn't want to tell the story of how Dick assumed the mantel of the Bat?

Morrison: I wanted to just come in – I know some fans don't like this approach – but I like to just come in when the story is underway and the fun has started. I thought that background stuff could be taken as read. Tony Daniel's dealing with those details in Battle for the Cowl, and the basics have been laid down. Apart from that, everything you need to know about the intervening time and how Dick and Damian got together gets explained over the next year of Batman and Robin anyway. It's all in the story. I just didn't want to front load it with expository material, because I wanted to jump straight into action with the characters, to be honest.

For legality, a couple more upcoming JG Jones Batverse covers

Comments

[ladymirth.insanejournal.com]

What was wrong with Dixon's run?

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I believe it might be more a reference to Dixon's statement that he doesn't feel that overly-sexualised relationships have a place in mainstream comics (homosexual or heterosexual, but possibly, and it's a matter of how you read it, moreso for homosexuality than heterosexuality)

This is a quote from here (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showpost.php?p=6887288&postcount=258)

So I maintain that inappropriate material featuring homosexuals in mainstream superhero comics is problematic. I object to a lot of what I see in mainstream superhero comics (sorry to keep using this term but I need to be specific). There’s far too much sexual material and particularly violent sexual material in these books. I’m a guy who avoids that stuff as much as possible when writing the iconic superheroes. I think you can count on one hand the times I ever showed Dick and Babs in even an innocent romantic clinch during their big romance. Not like another writer who made it clear that Dick Grayson was sleeping around even to the point of showing open condom packages by his bed.
And, I’m sorry if this offends, but the depiction of homosexual material presents complications of its own. Mainstream superhero comics are meant to reach the broadest base of readers. That includes kids. I know that most of you will use the argument that kids don’t read comics any more. I concede that. But the whole industry acts like it’s a good thing the kids have gone to bed so we can be more adult at our big superhero comic book party.
It’s not. Chasing the kids away and keeping them away with material featuring promiscuity, rape, torture and other “mature” subjects is suicidal for a medium that relies on kids finding and enjoying comics as they come to reading age. Every time a story appears on TV saying that “comics aren’t for kids anymore” the medium waves away a new generation of readers.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Oh, and I would recommend reading more than just that post, as the thread is fascinating in it's own right, with several clarifications, and further conflict.

[ladymirth.insanejournal.com]

Oh, I know his opinions are pretty fucked up. But at least he's never fucked up any Bat-character he's written, so I don't really give a damn what he thinks as long as he doesn't go apeshit on the characters. I personally love his run on Robin and I'll forgive him a lot for his spectacular BoP writing.

Thanks for the link though.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

His Nightwing was such a missed opportunity though... He spent ages showing how Dick was essentially Batman, with a city to protect (which just happened to be WORSE than Gotham) and the like, when the whole point of Dick becoming Nightwing was showcasing how DIFFERENT he was from Batman, he'd never really been tied to a city before, so his sudden burning desire to do so was irksome, as was his complete and utter isolation from the heroes who weren't just his allies, but his friends (this was apparently my editorial mandate, but still ridiculous)

Plus the villains were deplorable. He kept recycling the same half dozen no-hopers who Dick should have put out of action in about four minutes (This was a guy who fought Two Face, Scarecrow, the Joker and all their henchmen when he still pre-pubescent for heavens sake). No metahumans beyond Blockbuster (Again, this is a guy who fights the Fearsome Five for laughs) and just managed to make him look serially incompetent.

[runespoor7.insanejournal.com]

Dixon's Nightwing was at his best when the villain was Blüdhaven itself and when he interacted and created bonds with inhabitants of Bludhaven, I think. The thing with the police and how they were the true difficulty Dick encountered, that was interesting. Plus Dixon wrote Dick Grayson as a cop.

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

Nothing, it's just his Tim is so gay that he likes boys.

[interrobamf.insanejournal.com]

I thought that was Geoff Johns?

[ladymirth.insanejournal.com]

This is a bad thing, how? *g*