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As Nightwing leads a brand new Justice League within the nightmarish DCU of Dark Nights: Demise Steel, his previous Titan pals find out about his Ric Grayson persona.
Dick Grayson has had an particularly tough couple of years, shot within the head by the KGBeast within the pages of Batman earlier than having his reminiscences tampered with by the Courtroom of Owls and the Joker to type the extra risky Ric Grayson persona. And as Nightwing finds himself main a ragtag Justice League crew in the course of the crossover occasion Dark Nights: Demise Steel, a reunion along with his previous pals from the Teen Titans means he’ll should confront and clarify his latest, traumatic historical past.
Justice League will function a five-issue tie-in story to Demise Steel launching subsequent month, helmed by Joshua Williamson, Xermanico, Robson Rochoa and Daniel Henriques. Titled “Doom Steel,” the story arc has Cyborg and Starfire be a part of the brand new roster because it navigates the DC Universe’s nightmarishly reimagined hellscape on a mission to topple the Batman Who Laughs and Perpetua. The mission will provide the crew the possibility to catch up, and for Nightwing to recount his controversial character arc whereas reintegrating firmly with the broader DCU.
“It brings Nightwing again into this world,” Williamson teased in an upcoming interview with CBR. “Nightwing has been out of it for the final two years, coping with all of his stuff. He is form of been on the skin of what is been happening within the DCU and this was a chance to deliver him again into the DCU and get to see all of it.”
Williamson went on to specify, “There is a scene in difficulty #54 — Half 2 of ‘Doom Steel’ — the place Nightwing and Cyborg and Starfire get to really discuss for a minute. They’re crossing this valley of Starros however they should do it quietly in any other case they might get up the Starros. So that they’re making their approach throughout they usually simply form of discuss it: They discuss the truth that they have not seen one another for awhile, that they’ve modified, what they’re doing. There’s even a second the place Starfire appears to be like at Nightwing and she will see he has this scar on his head and he or she’s like, ‘The place did this scar come from?’ and he has to speak about it.”
Regardless of serving because the basic iteration of the Titans, the heroes have since been preoccupied with their very own drastically totally different instructions the previous a number of years. “Doom Steel” will give them a uncommon alternative to acknowledge how far every of them has are available in a uncommon quiet second within the insanity throughout them.
“All of those characters have gone by way of these huge adjustments,” Williamson noticed. “With Cyborg, Starfire and Nightwing, in case you return and have a look at them in Titans versus now, they’ve all gone by way of these large adjustments they usually have not had a second to acknowledge the truth that they’ve all modified since they noticed one another final, as they’re standing in a valley of Starros within the Steel-Verse.”
Written by Joshua Williamson and illustrated by Xermanico, Justice League #53 kicks off “Doom Steel” on Sept. 15 from DC Comics.