Tremendous cute fan artwork by illustrator Helen He reveals Robin on patrol with one among Nightwing’s closest (and furriest) woman pals.
Haley, a three-legged gray pitbull lately adopted by Dick Grayson, is Damian Wayne’s companion within the art work. Hooked up to a blue leash and seeming completely able to hop throughout rooftops alongside the Boy Wonder, Haley appears like a crime-fighting canine in coaching — an ideal match contemplating “Bitewing” is the nickname given to her by Barbara Gordon and different members of the Bat Household.
Nightwing first encountered Haley throughout author Tom Taylor and artist Bruno Redondo’s first situation of his sequence, Nightwing #78. Dick saved the pet from a gaggle of males who had been harming for her enjoyable and, after she instinctually bit him in response, he mirrored on the darkish nature of the town he had chosen for his house. “Blüdhaven would not have the insanity of Gotham…it is simply merciless,” he explains. “And the issue is cruelty teaches cruelty… This poor woman has come via rather a lot and would not belief anybody. I do not forget that nicely.”
Dick initially deliberate to show Haley over to the pound, however the pup rapidly turned his shut companion and a fan-favorite character amongst Nightwing readers. She is way from the primary canine related to a member of the Bat Household, as she is preceded by Ace the Bat-Hound, who first appeared in 1955’s Batman #92, and Titus, a Nice Dane who debuted in 2011’s Batman and Robin #2.
Damian Wayne, specifically, has proven an important fondness for animals, typically getting together with them greater than people. Grant Morrison’s runs on Batman and Robin and Batman Included within the late 2000s and early 2010s confirmed Damian inviting numerous creatures into the Batcave, notably a cat that he named Alfred Pennyworth and a cow he saved from Professor Pyg and dubbed “Bat-Cow.” In his 2015 solo sequence Robin: Son Of Batman, Damian additionally adventured alongside a dragon bat — a large winged beast named Goliath who most lately reappeared in Robin #4. With all of those animal companions beneath his belt, it is solely pure that Damian would leap on the probability to dogsit Dick’s new pet.
He’s a visible designer and illustrator from New Zealand presently primarily based in Melbourne, Australia. Apart from her Bitewing fan artwork, she has additionally illustrated quite a few photographs of Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man and the assorted Robins of the DC Universe.
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