Whereas Future State presents DC followers a glimpse at one doable future for the DC Universe, Tom King’s Batman/Catwoman is providing one other one. As readers have already seen within the first two problems with the sequence, the world of Batman/Catwoman is one wherein Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle have had a daughter, Helena Wayne, the place Bruce has died, and the place Selina is able to settle a really outdated rating with The Joker. In Batman/Catwoman #2 she does what Batman by no means would enable and kills the diabolical outdated villain who has retired to Florida, however on this week’s Batman/Catwoman #3 the story shifts again to Gotham and the invention of that homicide and divulges the destiny of one of many key members of the Batfamily — Dick Grayson/Nightwing.

Warning: Spoilers for Batman/Catwoman #3 beneath.

Within the challenge, Helena as Batwoman responds to the Batsignal a lot in the way in which her father would have besides the individual working the sign here’s a acquainted face many readers will not count on: Dick Grayson. Dick informs Helena {that a} physique that matches as much as the outline of The Joker was present in Port Orange, Florida. Whereas she is skeptical that it’s The Joker, she finally ends up investigating with him and, finally, confirms that it’s certainly him.

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The reveal that Dick is now police Commissioner in Gotham Metropolis is an attention-grabbing one and it opens up fairly a couple of questions. The suggestion right here is that, in some unspecified time in the future, Dick retires from being Nightwing and finds one other approach to assist combat crime in Gotham Metropolis. It isn’t fully out of character for Dick to decide on a profession in legislation enforcement, both. At numerous factors in comics historical past, Dick has labored with the police, albeit in Bludhaven.

What’s additionally attention-grabbing is that as a result of Dick has expertise working with Batman and being a vigilante himself, his working relationship with Helena’s Batwoman might be considerably stronger than Batman’s with Commissioner Gordon. There’s one thing attention-grabbing in regards to the thought of the previous Nightwing working inside the system whereas Batman’s legacy continues with Helena that seems like a becoming approach of constant Batman’s work in a approach that may simply make Gotham all the higher for it.

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