The DC Universe might be getting yet another alternate future this summer season, when Dick Grayson, the primary Robin, decides that it’s time for regular, baseline human beings to be accountable for saving the world.

Screenrant revealed the brand new six-issue miniseries — written by Kyle Higgins, with artwork by Trevor McCarthy, Dean White and Clayton Cowles — in the present day. Higgins and McCarthy are each no strangers to Dick Grayson, having labored collectively earlier than on the character’s New 52 relaunch ebook, Nightwing. Nightwing: The New Order will happen at the least a decade into the attainable way forward for the DC universe, in a setting the place having superpowers, particularly utilizing them to commit, stop or avenge crimes, is illegitimate.

Preview pages launched by DC to Screenrant give us only a trace as to how the DCU might have gotten thus far, and it appears to be like an terrible lot prefer it a part of it entails Nightwing single-handedly taking out the Justice League and a number of other huge supervillains.

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Nearly all of the occasions of the comedian happen twelve years after this second. Right here’s the official abstract:

NIGHTWING: THE NEW ORDER is the story of a future world with out “weapons”—the place superpowers have been eradicated and outlawed. The person accountable? None aside from Dick Grayson, a.ok.a. Nightwing, now chief of a authorities job power known as the Crusaders who’re charged with searching the remaining Supers. However when occasions transpire which flip the Crusaders’ purpose towards Grayson’s circle of relatives, the previous Boy Wonder should flip towards the very system he helped create, with assist from the very folks he’s been looking for years—the final metahumans of the DC Universe.

Different preview pages depict Dick Grayson, unmasked, in a police-like uniform searching down Arthur Gentle (in any other case often known as the supervillain “Physician Gentle”), aided by closely armed, Batman-masked troopers. You’ll be able to see all of the pages and two covers at Screenrant.

The announcement of Nightwing: The New Order instantly drew comparisons between its plot line and Marvel’s summer season crossover occasion of Captain America turning evil and destroying the Avengers in a fascist authorities takeover. However there are a number of main the reason why DC could not catch the type of flack that Marvel has.

For one, there’s the absence of Hydra or one other longtime-comic-book-stand-in-for-Nazis in Nightwing: The New Order. For an additional, the miniseries is ready in an alternate way forward for the DC Universe, not its essential setting. And eventually, the place Marvel preserved the secrecy of the “twist” ending on its story till final week, even The New Order’s very first official abstract makes it clear that will probably be a narrative about Dick Grayson realizing that he was incorrect and what occurs subsequent, quite than Grayson doing incorrect issues.

The trace that Grayson’s flip towards the superhuman ban might be motivated by his household coming below fireplace instantly conjures photos of the remainder of the Bat-Household — the opposite Robins and former Robins, Batgirl and different characters — however we would truly need to look someplace extra mundane.

“In my view, Dick Grayson is the center and soul of the DCU,” Higgins defined on his Twitter account, including that that the story might be framed by Dick Grayson’s relationship together with his personal son, who’s struggling to reconcile the superhero his father was with who he’s now.

In different phrases, who desires to wager that the Dick Grayson of The New Order has a son with superpowers?