DC has announced the creative team of Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo, who've worked together on Injustice: Gods Among Us and Suicide Squad, will join Nightwing following Future State.
"Despite, awkwardly, killing him twice (in Injustice and DCeased), I'm a huge Nightwing fan," Taylor said. "And I couldn't be more excited to take on a hero I’ve always considered a DC A-lister. Our series is about showing that. It’s about putting Dick Grayson back on that pedestal where he belongs."
"It’s also about taking everything Bruno and I love about Nightwing and testing him in a completely new way," he added. "Exploring how Dick reacts when faced with impossible odds, and with a life-changing opportunity which comes his way in our very first issue."
"I’m not holding anything back from this project," Redondo said. "Nightwing means kinetic potential, evolution, and a positive assertiveness more than any other character I’ve worked on...and that’s the kind of hero we all need right now. Working with Tom on Nightwing is the perfect evolution for us as a team! We have incredible ideas for Dick Grayson’s new adventures."
"This is the perfect time for a Nightwing story," Taylor continued. "It’s the right time for a charming, entertaining, positive force for good standing with the underrepresented, and pushing back against corruption and greed."
In Taylor and Redondo’s Nightwing run, Blüdhaven has elected a new mayor with the last name Zucco, which can’t be good for DC’s first sidekick and former Robin—but is it good for Blüdhaven? When Nightwing enlists Batgirl’s help in investigating the politician bearing the same name as the man who murdered his parents, she unearths details that will shock and fundamentally change the hero.
And appearing in the first issue of Taylor and Redondo’s new Nightwing comic is a potential new sidekick for Dick Grayson—a three-legged puppy that he shields from harm in Blüdhaven’s alleys! Will Nightwing adopt this nameless mutt? And will she warm fan’s hearts as fast as Nightwing kicks her tormentor’s butts? Meet her for the first time on March 16 in Nightwing #78!
Nightwing #78, by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas and Wes Abbott, goes on sale March 16 from DC.
Source: DC