COMICS: Former Robin Sheds NIGHTWING Identity In New Ongoing Series GRAYSON

......*point at picture*.....gun????......wwwwwhhhhy?

NOW ANNOUNCE ROBIN RISING:OMEGA DC!
OR THE BODIES START DROPPIN!
GIVE ME DAMIAN BACK!

The art looks good so far, I'll want to check out a preview for it.

Agree Knightrider...we already have Red Hood...Robin doesnt use a gun

it actually sounds pretty cool,i was alittle thrown back by him using a gun but making him a secret agent sounds cool

Dick Grayson is trading his superhero suit for secret-agent cool.

Batman's former sidekick embarks on a new life as an undercover superspy in the comic book Grayson, an action-adventure series premiering July 2 from DC Comics. It's written by Tim Seeley (Revival) and Tom King, a former CIA counterterrorism operations officer.

After a career of being overshadowed by his cape-and-cowled father figure, this is a chance for Grayson "to take off the mask and step out on his own in a world where he's not simply being another hero like the hero he grew up with," King says.

A character who first appeared in 1940, Grayson was the original Robin to Bruce Wayne's Dark Knight. He went solo as Nightwing in the 1980s and also served as Batman for a time, when Wayne was thought dead.

The current Nightwing series ends with Issue 30, due May 28. In the current Forever Evil event series, Dick Grayson has been outed in a villain-infested landscape as Nightwing and captured by the Crime Syndicate of Earth 3. (He's also seemingly murdered, but it doesn't take.)

Batman, though, wants him to transition to a different heroic life for the greater good — it's "a hard sell," Seeley says — and tells him why he needs his former partner to stay dead, not only to the world at large but to Batgirl, Alfred Pennyworth and the rest of the "Bat-family."

"Obviously, he's a part of a legacy," Seeley says. "He's been Robin, he's been Batman, and now he's out in the cold by himself."

Adds King: "He's doing something that's going to cause pain to his friends and family, but he believes in the cause. That tension between having to do something good but having the cost of it being pain to his family, it drives him a little crazy."

Grayson's new employer is the international spy agency Spyral, an organization created by writer Grant Morrison for his Batman, Incorporated series. King sees it as representative of today's intelligence community: They're the people who stop bad guys from doing bad things, yet to do that, they employ questionable tactics such as mind erosion.

"He has to save the world, but he's dealing with an organization that may go beyond his comfort zone," King says.

Seeley likes putting Grayson in this strange position, working for a group "that purports to be on the side of the angels, but clearly, there's some weird stuff going in. Their penchant for manipulation instantly makes them nefarious."

King, who started working for the CIA after 9/11, intends to bring to Grayson the emotional feel for what it's like to work undercover, have bullets shot at you and cope with the the inherent pressure of being an intelligence agent.

"It's bliss to serve a higher cause and save people," he says, but "the hard part of it is it's tough to go home and lie to your family and pretend to be a different person."

For the supporting cast, Seeley is planning to reintroduce some familiar DC characters but also to create a new mythos for Grayson, including his own archenemy.

"He's always been a character who hasn't had a villain associated with him," King says. "We want to give him his Lex Luthor, his Joker."

Also, Grayson is one of the few superheroes "who is considered a sex symbol by ladies," Seeley says. "We're leaning into that."

At the very least, he is getting a wardrobe makeover, courtesy of Grayson artist Mikel Janin: Gone is Grayson's mask, and his new outfit reflects the blue-and-black color scheme of his Nightwing togs and features a "G" on his chest, reminiscent of the old "R" from his Robin days.

In terms of tone, Seeley describes Grayson as a "world-hopping" action comic, and King wants every issue to feel like a TV episode of Mad Men or Breaking Bad in that it causes a conversation.

"It's DC's The Americans," King says. "This is something where, at the end of it, you have to go and talk about it."

He's carrying guns? I hate to complain but...didn't we get past the rebellious teenager phase?

Dumbest shit ever. Bring me back to the days prior to the new 52

Glad they're acknowledging his status among "the ladies", but there's more to him than that. Here's to new ideas.

Sounds good I'll be reading this !

Okay, I know this is a universe where the public is SO dumb a pair of glasses apparently constitutes a disguise, but that at least has the excuse of being a throwback to the days when these books were written for 8-year-olds. It's sacrosanct. That doesn't mean you have to pile MORE stupid on the wagon. HOW exactly does someone (anyone) read "Bruce Wayne's adopted son turns out to be Robin" in a headline without drawing the obscenely obvious conclusion? Blehhh...

And the gun's stupid.

Sooo... they didn't KILL Nightwing... they made him a secret agent?

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WHY?!?

That's just such an ODD choice for the character. And tying him to an organization that GRANT MORRISON created?

You're skating on thin ice with me, DC...

Z

Hmmmm, I like this, although I think it would have been better if he were an agent of ARGUS.

Definitely not a fan of this.

Unless the man under Batman is like Tony Stark or Steve Rogers, it would be easier for somebody to deduce Batman is Bruce Wayne.

Is Spyral DC's SHIELD?

So is he just male Black Widow now?

Take me back to before flashpoint fricked everything up

I'm not really sure how I feel about this. First of all, Bruce Wayne adopted Dick Grayson, and everyone knows Nightwing was the first Robin. Now that everyone knew Dick Grayson was Nightwing, you mean to tell me that no one can put 2 and 2 together that Bruce Wayne has as many adopted sons as Batman has sidekicks? They said they wanted him to break out of Batman's shadow and be known as something else. But basically they've just turned him into another secret agent. Dude above is kind of right, he's really just like a Male Black Widow now. I'll probably check the series out, but the premise does not make me very enthusiastic.

Dumb! Dumb! DUMB!!! [frick] DC...just create new characters that are actually just ripoffs of already established characters...ya know, as opposed to this....CRAP!!! Ugh.

I never thought I'd say this, but looking at this shit, I wish they just killed him