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scans_dailyAuthor Benjamin Percy is starting his run as writer on Nightwing in May, joined by new artist Chris Mooneyham. There's an article up about it at Entertainment Weekly
"The best way to approach Nightwing is as a high-octane, adrenaline-fueled mystery and adventure.
Consider how Gotham and Blüdhaven are shadow-soaked, crime-ridden environments. One of the things I love about Nightwing is his irrepressible optimism. This joy—a love of the game, a showman’s theatricality—is tonally essential to my approach. I see it as a necessary counterweight to material that might otherwise feel oppressively grim. In this way, Grayson really captures the hopeful maxim that has defined the Rebirth era."
“Back in August, [DC co-publisher] Dan DiDio gave me a call. He had heard of my novel The Dark Net, and he was interested in me taking the research I had done and amplifying it to make it a significant event in, and threat to, the DC Universe,” Percy tells EW. “The dark web, for those who aren’t familiar, is a place for file-sharing, weapons trafficking, human smuggling, terrorist communications, anything nasty or forbidden that people don’t want other people knowing about. There’s no greater weapon right now than information and vulnerable data. We all know about identity theft, this is secret identity theft. The dark web is coming to the DCU. It is at first going to affect Dick Grayson, and then it is going to affect the entire DCU. This is something that will be relatable to our audience, because of all the things to fear right now, cybercrime is chief among them. It already makes our readers anxious."
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I’m trying to insert as best as I can a sense of humor to offset the tension,” Percy says. “You’ll see it from the very first issue. You’ll smile by page two, and you’ll be grinning by page six. There is romance alongside the adventure, and right on the first page, you’ll see graffiti ‘Butthaven’ scratched into the wall. There’s a hat-tip to one of Dick Grayson’s greatest ass-ets.”
We see what you did there!
Interesting, Dick used to be pretty tech-savvy when on the New Teen Titans, and probably still is, but when Oracle was on hand (and indeed, Tim) it wasn't one of his specialities, running the New Teen Tt
Some art samples from Chris Mooneyham, I'm guessing Wyrm is a villain from the Dark Web story,
And a couple of character studies
"The best way to approach Nightwing is as a high-octane, adrenaline-fueled mystery and adventure.
Consider how Gotham and Blüdhaven are shadow-soaked, crime-ridden environments. One of the things I love about Nightwing is his irrepressible optimism. This joy—a love of the game, a showman’s theatricality—is tonally essential to my approach. I see it as a necessary counterweight to material that might otherwise feel oppressively grim. In this way, Grayson really captures the hopeful maxim that has defined the Rebirth era."
“Back in August, [DC co-publisher] Dan DiDio gave me a call. He had heard of my novel The Dark Net, and he was interested in me taking the research I had done and amplifying it to make it a significant event in, and threat to, the DC Universe,” Percy tells EW. “The dark web, for those who aren’t familiar, is a place for file-sharing, weapons trafficking, human smuggling, terrorist communications, anything nasty or forbidden that people don’t want other people knowing about. There’s no greater weapon right now than information and vulnerable data. We all know about identity theft, this is secret identity theft. The dark web is coming to the DCU. It is at first going to affect Dick Grayson, and then it is going to affect the entire DCU. This is something that will be relatable to our audience, because of all the things to fear right now, cybercrime is chief among them. It already makes our readers anxious."
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I’m trying to insert as best as I can a sense of humor to offset the tension,” Percy says. “You’ll see it from the very first issue. You’ll smile by page two, and you’ll be grinning by page six. There is romance alongside the adventure, and right on the first page, you’ll see graffiti ‘Butthaven’ scratched into the wall. There’s a hat-tip to one of Dick Grayson’s greatest ass-ets.”
We see what you did there!
Interesting, Dick used to be pretty tech-savvy when on the New Teen Titans, and probably still is, but when Oracle was on hand (and indeed, Tim) it wasn't one of his specialities, running the New Teen Tt
Some art samples from Chris Mooneyham, I'm guessing Wyrm is a villain from the Dark Web story,
And a couple of character studies
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Date: 2018-02-22 12:52 am (UTC)Also, any other book written by the same writer, and no one else ever.
*cough*
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Date: 2018-02-22 09:37 am (UTC)I'm also digging that they have been experimenting a lot with his character of late.
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Date: 2018-02-22 11:17 pm (UTC)I like this quote.
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Date: 2018-02-24 06:13 pm (UTC)I tried to think of a good reBUTTal but alas have not had enough coffee.
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Date: 2018-02-24 02:28 am (UTC)Oh God no, not another Evil Internet story.
right on the first page, you’ll see graffiti ‘Butthaven’ scratched into the wall. There’s a hat-tip to one of Dick Grayson’s greatest ass-ets.”
....ha ha! Ha. Christ.