Dick Grayson is a central member of the Bat-Household and the unique Robin. However, this week, he is headed for some harmful territory in Nightwing #66. Current occasions have led the crimefighter in some unusual instructions. Batman #55 noticed the hero in a relatively routing rooftop assembly with The Dark Knight and Commissioner Gordon. On the tail finish of that assembly, the whole lot went fairly horribly fallacious as Grayson took a literal bullet to the pinnacle. When the hero got here to, he was confused by all of his environment and understandably needed some solutions from the “strangers” round him. It seems KGBeast was the one behind the taking pictures below the path of Bane, however there are much more sinister plots at play with the hero’s new establishment. Nightwing Annual #2 lined the whole lot concerning the incident with Grayson revisiting these moments the place Batman tried to get his previous companion to recollect who he was and what his life was like earlier than the gunshot wound. However, it seems that Nightwing is not involved in returning to that life for the time being. *Spoilers for Nightwing #66 are arising.*

So, Dick has been going by Ric Grayson as of late as he downright refuses to purchase into something from his previous life as of proper now. He nonetheless has retained that martial arts coaching from Batman and can assist out these in want when responsibility calls. However, he isn’t placing on the Nightwing swimsuit any time quickly. Even weirder, he will get unusual desires and visions of his previous life that urge him to kind of keep in mind what was and Grayson has no intention of listening to these ideas both.

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The younger hero’s been going to remedy to take care of these developments, after which it turns into clear what’s actually happening. Unbeknownst to Grayson, the Court docket of Owls has been behind this complete ordeal. They used a drug routine and psychological manipulation to maneuver the crimefighter into place for the subsequent a part of their scheme. There was by no means any amnesia to talk of solely their darkish affect hovering over the whole charade. Now, they’re prepared to offer him false recollections to be able to get him to be the brand new Talon.

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That is proper, the Court docket of Owls has their new chief in the interim. Talons have solely been inflicting increasingly more issues for the Bat-Household and their allies in recent times. Dealing with off in opposition to one in every of their very own once more would possibly make issues a little bit bit tougher to take care of. Ric Grayson isn’t any extra and solely the cutthroat Talon stays. They’ve rewired all of his recollections to place the Court docket of Owls in Bruce Wayne’s stead. His grandfather William Cobb has the higher hand and issues are going to boil over in an enormous approach earlier than 2020 brings much more modifications for the character.

Nightwing is written by Dan Jurgens and drawn by Ronan Cliquet, and you may take a look at the official description of the problem beneath.

“William Cobb has taken the Nightwings down one after the other, leaving Ric on his personal in a Blüdhaven that’s actually aflame. Cobb provides Ric an opportunity to save lots of his metropolis by ultimately fulfilling his legacy because the Grey Son and turning into the brand new Talon and main the Court docket of Owls into a brand new age.”

Nightwing #66 is in comedian shops now.