Accommodates spoilers for DC vs. Vampires: All-Out Battle #1!
Dick Grayson’s title has been given a brand new darkish which means, pushing him additional away from his heroic Nightwing mantle. Nightwing is now king of the vampires, having contaminated or killed most of his fellow heroes to put in a brand new world order. Now, his undead servants are bringing again a reputation with twisted connections to his origin.
Throughout an try to revive Batman with a Lazarus pit, in DC vs Vampires: All-Out Battle #1 (by Guillaume Singelin, Alex Paknadel, Matthew Rosenberg and Pasquale Qualano), numerous survivors of Nightwing’s new world order encounter a vampirized Azrael, who claims to be a member of the Order of the Grey Solar – speedy servants of the vampiric regime. This new title is an fascinating selection, since not solely does it reference the actual fact the vampires have efficiently blocked out the solar, but in addition calls again to Dick’s unique villainous future within the DC Universe.
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Nightwing grew up in a circus, however this circus had a darkish secret – it was truly run by the Court docket of Owls. The Court docket would decide probably the most gifted acrobats from Haly’s circus and take them in, coaching them to turn out to be the following Talon, an enforcer for the Court docket. Whereas that is already dangerous information for Dick, there was a fair larger connection that he personally needed to the court docket. Dick Grayson’s great-grandfather, William Cobb, particularly gave his son the title ‘Grayson’ as a result of Cobb wished the Owls to simply accept him because the “Grey Son of Gotham,” as seen in Nightwing #9 by Kyle Higgens, Eddy Barrows, and Andres Guinaldo.
This reveals that all through his household line Dick Grayson was actually bred to be a killer. Rising up, Dick was meant to finally be a part of the Court docket and turn out to be their biggest Talon. Dick prevented turning into the brand new ‘Grey Son of Gotham’ in DC’s mainstream actuality, however now because the vampiric Grey Solar, he is lastly claiming a model of the mantle that Bruce Wayne helped him keep away from. Nightwing is such a hero that his good nature is definitely a multiversal fixed, however there may be nonetheless darkness in his previous all the time reaching for him. His new title reveals that on this actuality, his fall is not random, however the achievement of his meant origin as a killer supreme – albeit one who guidelines Earth relatively than serving the Court docket.
In turning into the Grey Solar, Dick Grayson has each embraced and defied his meant destiny – as a substitute of being one thing that was meant to designate servitude, the title is used for somebody who guidelines over all. Nightwing‘s new energy is past something the Court docket of Owls dreamed for him, and but the tragic fact is that Dick Grayson has justified their twisted plans for him by exhibiting simply how excessive he can rise as soon as he embraces evil.
DC vs. Vampires: All-Out Battle #1 is obtainable now from DC Comics.