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Warning ! Contains spoilers for Nightwing # 116 !
Summary
Nightwinghas been doing great lately : he ’s in a lie with relationship with Barbara Gordon , he ’s using his wealth to repair and improve the life of everyone in Blüdhaven , and he ’s once again the leader of the Titans . It seems like Nightwing is truly on top , but his villain Heartless is finally quick to organize his farsighted fall to the bottom , as render in a chilling new variant cover .
A new variant binding for July’sNightwing#116 by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo unwrap that Dick Grayson ’s futurity may be even more barren than fans expected . Tirso Cons ' 1:25 variant binding , as shown in the creative person ’s X post below , features a beardedNightwing wearing a coating , clearly incognito , leading his dog " Bitewing " through a dark railroad train post . The tangible bleak kicker is that Bitewing seem to be unsighted .
After the intoxicate event ofNightwing#113 by Taylor , Marv Wolfman , Daniele Di Niculo , and Redondo , Heartless has decided that it ’s the perfect prison term to bring Dick Grayson down for sound . Heartless has been watching Nightwingfor nearly a year at this point , and he ’s presently the big threat to Nightwing ’s life . With everything in place , Heartless enacts a plan that will seemingly live Nightwing alone and homeless , as depicted on this book binding .
A new prevue for Nightwing vamp that Heartless will reveal himself to Dick Grayson ( who has no idea the fresh villain is his true foe in Blüdhaven ) .
Nightwing’s “Fallen Grayson” Arc Could Lead to a Truly Dark Future
Heartless Is Plotting Nightwing’s Downfall
Heartless ' programme will have a devastating effect on Dick ’s life .
NIGHTWING # 116 ( 2024 )
Release Date :
July 17th , 2024
Writers :
Tom Taylor
Artists :
Bruno Redondo
Cover Artist :
Variant covering :
Rian Gonzales , Vasco Georgiev , Tirso Cons
Everything Dick Grayson has build is decay around him . His life is spiraling out of control and Heartless is at the plaza of all of it . Now Nightwing must leave his city . Can he take back the power he ’s lose ? Or will Blϋdhaven and its citizen be lose to Heartless eternally ?
Heartless has been the inscrutable baddie in Blüdhaven for most a class now . Very little is have it off about Heartless other than the fact he seems to be a dark reflexion of Bruce Wayne : a psychotic youthful male child who killed his parent with the help of his pantryman . Heartless also witnessed the death ofNightwing ’s parents in Haly ’s Circus . This event has relate the two characters , with Heartless being a repeat reference in Dick ’s life , even bullying him in school , though it ’s unlikely Dick remembers him . Heartless want nothing more than to destroy Nightwing , and it seems he ’s finally moving into berth to do so .
The " Fallen Grayson " arc get withNightwing#114 , and it marks the beginning of the end of Taylor and Redondo ’s award - succeed run on the title .
Heartless has been a brutal villainand has kill oodles of innocent civilians by ripping out their nub , but his interactions with Nightwing have been surprisingly minimum . Despite Heartless haunting the street of Blüdhaven for almost three long time now , he has only confront Nightwing directly a handful of times . This is in the end going to change as Heartless promises to take about the fall of Dick Grayson , and moot the variant cover forNightwing#116 shows a homeless and disheveled Dick Grayson , with a apparently now unsighted Haly by his side , it seems thatHeartless ' program will have a annihilative effect on Dick ’s biography .
Heartless Finally Strikes Out At Nightwing
Will Dick Grayson Survive?
Nightwing has face plenty of adversity in the retiring few month , specially from Amanda Waller during theBeast Worldevent , but he ’s derive out on top every metre so far . Nightwing ’s life sentence has been in a just and more unchanging position than it has in year — which is why Heartless is also at his most life-threatening . It ’s possible that Heartless intentionally waited for Nightwing to be at his peak of happiness , and now he ’s going to last strike out at Blüdhaven ’s poor boy and do everything he can to make sureNightwing’sfall is very public and as devastating as potential .
Nightwing#116is available July 27th , 2024 , from DC Comics !
Source : Tirso Cons
Nightwing is the superhero nickname taken up by Dick Grayson , upon his aging out of the Robin role and becoming a superhero of his own . Inspired by the original Kryptonian hero of the same name , Grayson has risen to comical Bible immortality with the identity , realise deference as one of the greatest leaders in the DC Universe .
