Scott Snyder is not done with Gotham yet. The DC writer talked briefly about a pitch he had featuring Dick Grayson, better known as Nightwing. Snyder's pitch would see Grayson once again take up the mantle of Batman.
Snyder is no stranger to writing Grayson, having penned the acclaimed "Black Mirror" arc of Detective Comics before the New 52 initiative. During a Zoom call with Newsarama, Snyder expounded on his love for Grayson as a character, and how he differed from Bruce Wayne.
"He’s the character that more than anyone else in the Bat-Family wears his heart on his sleeve," Snyder said. "He’s not the best detective from an empirical standpoint, but he’s the best emotional detective out of all the former Robins, in my opinion. He’s someone who understands human psychology; he understands empathy."
Snyder went on to say, "There are mysteries Bruce wouldn’t do as well on as Dick and he sometimes gets shortchanged in terms of people thinking of him as Batman-light. But I don't think of him that way. I think of him more as someone with a very different skill set as a detective and Gotham would look very different under his mantle."
Snyder said that there was a very strong chance that he would get to go through with the project, and that he was excited to see it through.
Snyder's next comics project is Dark Nights: Death Metal, which reunites him with his frequent collaborator Greg Capullo.