Batman 75 Year in Review: Grayson

Batman’s 75th Anniversary draws to a close, so we here at Caped Crusades intend to fill these twilight days talking about the year that was. A lot of big Batman moments happened this year, so let’s review them as many as we can before the festivities end!

Another big change to the Bat-family came earlier this year when Dick Grayson hung up the Nightwing mantle and picked up a handgun. Strange, I know.

In the ongoing series Grayson, the former Robin went into a new line of work.

"Batman’s former sidekick embarks on a new life as an undercover superspy in the comic book Grayson, an action-adventure series premiering July 2 from DC Comics. It’s written by Tim Seeley (Revival) and Tom King, a former CIA counterterrorism operations officer.The current Nightwing series ends with Issue 30, due May 28. In the current Forever Evil event series, Dick Grayson has been outed in a villain-infested landscape as Nightwing and captured by the Crime Syndicate of Earth 3. (He’s also seemingly murdered, but it doesn’t take.)Batman, though, wants him to transition to a different heroic life for the greater good — it’s “a hard sell,” Seeley says — and tells him why he needs his former partner to stay dead, not only to the world at large but to Batgirl, Alfred Pennyworth and the rest of the “Bat-family.”"

This is what we had to say at the time:

"The Bat-Family is getting pretty crowded and Grayson has always been one of the great, constantly evolving legacy DC characters, (something that Marvel is better known for). Nightwing was a great step forward, as was his brief stint as Batman himself, but if you are going to keep a character growing, change has to happen."

If you’d like to read some early reviews of the series by our blog and more Dick Grayson news, check out this link here.