The next incorporates spoilers for Nightwing #94, now on sale from DC Comics
The DC Universe has been altering lately on a whole lot of ranges, with the cosmic scope of tales like Dark Crisis setting large battles in movement. All of the whereas, the challenges introduced to heroes nice and small carry large potential repercussions of their very own, as Dreamer simply highlighted to Superman. Even the easy act of reuniting a basic duo might change the trajectory of a whole main metropolis.
Nightwing’s strikes in Bludhaven outcome within the metropolis needing a brand new police commissioner and in Nightwing #94 (by Tom Taylor, Geraldo Borges, Adriano Lucas, and Wes Abbott), Maggie Sawyer is appointed to that place. She’s additionally bringing Dan Turpin together with her, recreating the Put up-Crisis/DC Animated Universe with a brand new mission assertion in thoughts.
Nightwing’s current actions in Bludhaven have radically modified the panorama of the town. Beforehand the area of corrupt cops and the gang lords like Blockbuster, it was some of the corrupt cities within the DC Universe. However because of the huge inflow of funds made obtainable by Dick Grayson, the town has been going by means of some adjustments. This consists of the police pressure, with Nightwing and Oracle working alongside Grayson’s sister (and present mayor of Bludhaven) Melinda.
Because of their profitable seize of Commisioner Gil Maclean, the Bludhaven Police Division obtained an overhaul. In the end, Maggie Sawyer is introduced as the brand new Commissioner for Bludhaven, with the lawyer basic making the announcement publicly. Sawyer rapidly embraces the place and declares that she’ll even be joined by Dan Turpin, who will assist her root out any corruption within the metropolis’s police division.
Maggie Sawyer was launched in Superman #4 by John Byrne as one of many main additions to the collection after Crisis on Infinite Earths. She rapidly discovered her position within the DC Universe, serving as an initially reluctant ally to Superman and different heroes. Within the post-Flashpoint DC Universe, she turned a main love curiosity for Batwoman earlier than transferring from Gotham again to Metropolis throughout DC Rebirth. Notably, her friendship with Dan Turpin, which originated within the comics, was later dropped at her appearances within the Superman: The Animated Sequence.
There, the pair have been companions on the metropolis police pressure and did their greatest to assist. Maggie is smart as a super individual to set into this place and coincidentally it means she’s gained the identical form of promotion that is been lately provided to DCAU veteran, Renee Montoya. Maggie has been constantly proven to be a pushed and in the end heroic character, and he or she might grow to be an important ally for Nightwing to depend on. Alongside Dan Turpin, Maggie might grow to be one thing of a James Gordon-stand in for Nightwing, that he can attempt to depend on in sure conditions.
Maggie’s particular expertise with superheroes and vigilantes means she would possibly even be prepared to work alongside him extra rapidly than different commissioners, permitting Nightwing to proceed his work slightly than persuade a whole police pressure to belief him. Their relative significance and connections to the hero neighborhood additionally means it is much less probably somebody as harmful as Blockbuster will simply be capable to make Sawyer or Turpin disappear. This implies they could be precisely the individuals Nightwing wants to assist him cement his plans to uplift the town he is spent years combating for.