Dick Grayson receives a invaluable ally within the type of a well-recognized face on the corrupt Blüdhaven police pressure in DC’s Nightwing sequence.
Dick Grayson will get some much-needed help in Blüdhaven as Maggie Sawyer turns into commissioner of the town’s police pressure within the upcoming Nightwing #94, hopefully changing into a pressure for good similar to Gotham’s Commissioner James Gordon.
Written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Bruno Redondo, Nightwing #94 guarantees battle as Maggie faces off in opposition to the immense corruption current in Blüdhaven, which is sort of utterly within the pocket of the villainous Blockbuster. With Maggie much less prone to kowtow to the gangster’s calls for as her predecessor, Blockbuster places new stress on metropolis mayor Melinda Zucco as an alternative. Melinda, by the way, occurs to be Dick’s half-sister, with whom he just lately allied.
Launched within the pages of 1987’s Superman #4 as a devoted Particular Crimes Unit detective, Maggie Sawyer has switched between the Metropolis and Gotham Metropolis police forces a number of instances in her comedian profession, making her look in Blüdhaven a contemporary job change. Notable moments in Maggie’s life as a cop embrace serving as a central character within the short-lived 1994 sequence Metropolis S.C.U., starring within the fan-favorite Gotham Central police procedural comedian following the mid-2000s “No Man’s Land” arc, and receiving a wedding proposal from Kate Kane — also referred to as Batwoman — within the pages of 2011’s Batwoman #17. The character was portrayed in live-action by Floriana Lima within the Supergirl tv sequence.
Blüdhaven — a metropolis described by Dick Grayson as “corrupt to its core” — has lengthy wanted a virtuous police commissioner. In author Chuck Dixon’s run on the Nightwing sequence of 1996, Blüdhaven’s police division lacked a proper commissioner after the place had been eradicated in an anti-corruption probe, and Dick Grayson ended up becoming a member of the pressure himself in an effort to scrub up the town through authorized means. Dick incessantly butted heads in opposition to Police Chief Delmore Redhorn, who acted as a commissioner in all however title and repeatedly did enterprise with Blockbuster in a convention that has been carried by Commissioner Maclean, the present head of police in Taylor and Redondo’s run.
Except for gaining his equal of Commissioner Gordon, latest problems with Nightwing have seen Dick beginning a basis devoted to Alfred Pennyworth, elevating the lovable three-legged pet nicknamed “Bitewing,” serving as a mentor to Jon Kent and testing the waters in a brand new romantic relationship with Barbara Gordon, higher often called Batgirl and Oracle.
Nightwing #94 goes on sale July 19 from DC.
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