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admonition : SPOILERS forNightwing # 66
Fans did n’t know what they were in for whenNightwingwas shot in the head– surviving the attack , but suffering acute store exit as a result of his nous injury . Fast ahead weeks and months of recovery subsequently , and the ego - named’Ric ' Grayson was a altogether different personwanting nothing to do with his adopted family , or their Bat - identities . Now the accuracy of that transformation has been unwrap as the first step in turning Nightwing into DC ’s deadliest bravo . And in his latest issue … Dick Grayson completes the summons , becoming the new Talon , in every elbow room that matters .
The secret behind Rick ’s supposed ' blackout ' was eventually reveal in the recentNightwing Annual # 2 , as part of an elaborate program hatch and action by the Court of Owls . And not just following the assassination effort , either . TheAnnualrevealed Dick had been subliminally groomed and programmed from childhood , with triggers and memories in effect plant , hold off for the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. when the Court would have their opening . An opening like a brain injury , for instance , to remake Dick Grayson into the manhis bang-up - gramps , the Talon William Cobbdreamed he would be . And inNightwing # 66 , Cobb completes the bequest ( against Dick ’s will ) .
TheAnnualrevisited Dick Grayson ’s rehab to reveal the medical and psychological blocking put into place by his motor hotel - loyal doctor , but Dick himself is still in the dark . As far as he ’s concerned inNightwing # 66 , he ’s still fighting off a moonstruck claiming to be his immortal ancestor , determined to make him accept his fortune as Talon , the Court ’s great cat’s-paw . That is , until William Cobb stupefy the upper hand on his great - grandson , and applies the final piece of Dick ’s brainwashing .
The goggles land all of Dick Grayson ’s mental triggers and blocks into place , using the liveliness he lived to take form a new memory , and a new pedigree story . One in which Bruce Wayne ’s part is meet by Cobb , and the calling of Nightwing replaced by Talon . And one in which Dick ’s bond with Bruce is subvert , by giving him the faux computer memory of murdering the billionaire ( explain any memory of conflicted impression ) . It may be betray , but it is paying off years of back fib since the Court of Owls debuted in DC ’s New 52 . Can the conditioning be broken , and Dick forced to see the truth instead of the Court ’s clouding of his mind ?
That is the question sports fan will be asking for the come weeks and months , as Dick ascends to the part of Talon , and face even more identity crisis along the way . For now , readers can pick up this issue for themselves , and find the plot abstract and cite below :
Nightwing # 66is usable now from your local comic Good Book shop . The full debut of Ric Grayson in his persona as the new Talon will likely arrive inNightwing # 67on December 18th , 2019 .
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