DC has supplied ComicBook.com with an unique preview of Nightwing #58, from author Scott Lobdell and artist Christopher Mooneyham. The preview, seen within the connected picture gallery, incorporates a cowl by Mooneyham in addition to a variant from Tyler Kirkham. Within the concern, The Joker’s Daughter is again! Or is she? Whereas she wasn’t shot within the head like Nightwing, Duela Dent is likely to be going through an identification disaster much more traumatic than Ric Grayson’s. Thankfully the brand new Nightwings are doing their finest to guard Blüdhaven—studying as they go—permitting Ric to attempt to assist steer Duela away from the lifetime of a homicidal zealot of the loopy Clown Prince of Crime!
This could possibly be a very fascinating story, because the transition between Robin and Nightwing all these years in the past was marked by the choice to tell apart and separate himself from his father determine (Batman), and right here he has an opportunity to encourage the sometimes-good, sometimes-bad Joker’s Daughter to do the identical. Additionally fascinating: probably the most widely-read story to function the Joker’s Daughter lately was seemingly Countdown to Ultimate Crisis, which centered largely round Jason Todd, the opposite Robin to stroll away from Batman.
Grayson has not too long ago undergone plenty of transitions — first from “Grayson,” a largely un-costumed spy within the make use of of SPYRAL throughout the pre-Rebirth comics from writers Tim Seeley and Tom King; after which later, from Dick Grayson to Ric Grayson, following a traumatic head damage that left him coping with an identification disaster that author Scott Lobdell has been exploring in his run on the character.
Timing-wise, this looks like an fascinating alternative, because the complete “Ric Grayson” factor popped up simply as Titans was set to debut, with a extra conventional model of Dick serving because the sequence’ point-of-view character. In fact, it is not going to be till the second season, anticipated later this 12 months, that Grayson takes on the Nightwing identification, having been both Robin or utterly out of costume for the whole thing of Titans’s first season.
The actual query is whether or not, in his compromised state, Grayson can deal with the problem of a shattered thoughts just like the Joker’s Daughter.
Nightwing #58 might be available in shops and on-line on Wednesday, March 20.