Dark Crisis #7 Preview: Dick Grayson And Slade Wilson

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[numeronone]

"Pariah showed me we're all better off...in the DARK."

(He slowly and carefully dons a second eyepatch)

[tcampbell1000]

:-D

[scorntx]

"Uh... Slade? It's supposed to go over your other eye."

[mastermahan]

Magnificent.

[icon_uk]

Though I question the importace of Slade as a villain, this seems like an interesting choice, and nicely contrasts Dick and Slade, who are a far better set of mirror images than Slade and, say, Batman or Wonder Woman. (And Superman would be a very unequal power balance for a final conflict)

One an optimist, one a pessimist

One defined as a good son, the other defined as a bad father

One became a hero to seek justice, and because it was the right thing to do, the other became a villain for money.

One brightly coloured, other other in darker shades.

And gosh Dick is looking pretty here!

[mastermahan]

They're Nightwing and the Slade
Yes Nightwing and the Slade
One has a great ass, the other's inane
To prove his merc-y worth
He'll kill the multiverse
They're Nightwing
They're Nightwing and the Slade, Slade, Slade, Slade
Slade, Slade, Slade, Slade

[super_fly]

One can enjoy films in 3D, the other can't...

[blues32]

That just gives me a mental image of Slade going to I-Max theaters and such, wearing those glasses they give out. He's sitting there with his arms crossed, glowering at the screen while everyone is cheering and hollering. "Oooo, it's coming toward us!"

Then over time, he gets so fed up with it he decides to destroy the world. Put it in darkness so that nobody gets to see the hand reaching out of the screen.

[bruinsfan]

(And Superman would be a very unequal power balance for a final conflict)

I dunno, we've seen in the past that an individual's power is insignificant in the face of the Great Darkness, up to and including the Spectre's. But there have been in-universe references to Superman being the keystone of DC's reality to match his metatextual importance to superhero comics as an industry. I could see the writers doing a symbolic Light/Great Darkness, creation/nothingness thing with him and Slade representing the forces behind those concepts.

But it's better for Dick to be the standard bearer, as he and Slade have so much history.

[blueprintstyles]

I want a longtime before there's another event. If they have to justify a big crossover, I want there to be no big bad. We just see what heroes do on vacation: Batfamily road trip, Supermaily at a pottery class. No more Cosmic gibberish.

[tcampbell1000]

I have also thought this! If I were given the job of doing a crossover event for DC or Marvel, my first pitch would be two words: "Romantic comedy."

[bradygirl_12]

Ah, the old classic costume. ☺️

[starwolf_oakley]

INFINITE CRISIS had scenes like this. Kal-L and Superboy Prime saying “This is a terrible Earth and the heroes are terrible people.” In retrospect, it is less the villains having a point and more DC insulting people who didn’t like Identity Crisis.

[windleopard2]

I see it more as DC wanting to.have their cake and eat it too.

[scorntx]

Not quite following the logic all the way on that one.

[icon_uk]

Given that Infinite Crisis specifically used Dick Grayson as Batman's multidimensional moral benchmark comparator, and Kal-L admitted that, okay, you got me, your Dick IS just as neat as mine (and I am SO glad they didn't phrase it like that because the innudendo potential is off the charts), not sure that's quite how I read it.

[akodo_rokku]

As much as I am exhausted by a decade of DC Multiverse events, it IS long past time that Dick Grayson was the big damn hero of one.

[thumbs13]

I'll never say no to the classic costume, but I thought Dan Mora's Teen Robin redesign was gonna stick for everything.

[icon_uk]

Nothing sticks forever in the DCU. It exists in whatever pocket of Hypertime/Omniverse/Whatever terminology we're using this time which had Kara as Supergirl growing up and working with Dick whilst he was still Robin, which is something that SHOULD have happened, but even in the Silver Age didn't.

And if we're doing a New Teen Titans Robin vs original Deathstroke, I think we have to base that off the Perez run looks.

[leahandillyana]

I hate that Deathstroke is being advertised as the cool villain. I hate that Nightwing is advertised as the goodest purest hero. I wish both of them just died and stayed dead for some time.

[icon_uk]

Wishing characters dead, just because you don't like them, is not cool in a place where they may be other's favourites.

[shakalooloo]

This is just an extended version of the fight from Infinite Crisis, where Slade's motives weren't really explained.

[bradygirl_12]

If I had to bet on any hero to save my universe, it'd be Dick Grayson.

[dan_ingram]

"Believe in Dick!"

[blues32]

...well, at least Slade has his old hair back. That mohawk thing was just not doing it for him. Too mid-life crisis. Dark Mid-Life Crisis.