Tag: Tom DeFalco

Nightwing Past, Present and Future

Nightwing #0 courtesy DC Comics

  I think Dick Grayson is one of the greatest heroes in all of comics books. Like Barbara Gordon, Dick has no super powers. He’s a guy who believes in justice. You think you know the origin of the original Robin but this is the one year anniversary of The New 52, so there’s room for expansion on the story. I welcome it.

  This week’s Nightwing #0 shares the past and peeks into the future of the young man who was once Robin. It should have been called Robin #0. Tom DeFalco joins creative team Kyle Higgins and artist Eddy Barrows. From the tragedy at Haly’s Circus that left Dick an orphan to his first time in the Robin costume we learn the tragic and triumphant story of a young man so similar yet so different from Bruce Wayne.

Dick’s first encounter as Robin marks the New 52 debut of Lady Shiva – her return is long overdue!. Tom DeFalco is writing the next two issues of Nightwing featuring a reunion between the assassin and Grayson.

 

Nightwing: The Lost Year courtesy DC Comics

  My one critique is this should have been called Robin #0 but I would enjoy reading Nightwing #0.2 revealing Dick’s transformation from Batman’s sidekick into becoming his own man and his own identity.

  One artistic homage I really enjoyed what seeing the Graysons in costume remembling the Nightwing blue look – still my favorite look!

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A DC Villainess Enters the New 52!

Nightwing #0 courtesy DC Comics

Lady Shiva makes her DC Comics The New 52 debut going up against Dick Grayson. Legendary creator Tom DeFalco unleashes the assassin during this two-part story in Nightwing #13 and #14.

DeFalco tells The Bat Signal on Comic Book Resources how he got to be the writer to bring back the martial arts master.

“You know, I’m not really sure. I think we had a big discussion — the people I was talking with were Brian Cunningham and Katie Kubert, and the three of us sat around and tossed out all sorts of possibilities and discussed different characters, what would be interesting, which character should we use, this or that. I remembered Brian said at one point, “You know, the character I always loved was Lady Shiva.” And then Katie talked of a different character with a ponytailed weapon. She described it to me and I said, “Wow, that is a really cool weapon!” [Laughs] So Brian made the call to give Shiva that other character’s weapon to make her more a visual threat. Then, I guess Brian discussed it with Mike Marts and the other Bat people and we decided to go with Lady Shiva.”

DeFalco says the story begins with Nightwing #0 and “this Lady Shiva is very different, but has the same traits in this completely new version of the character.”

Artist Andres Guinaldo will join DeFalco on the story.

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