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Contains spoilers for DC vs. Vampires : All - Out warfare # 1 !
Dick Grayson ’s name has been given a newfangled dark import , pushing him further aside from his heroicNightwingmantle . Nightwing is now king of the vampires , having infected or killed most of his fellow poor boy to instal a novel world order . Now , his undead handmaiden are land back a name with misrepresented connections to his origin .
During an attempt torevive Batman with a Lazarus colliery , inDC vs Vampires : All - Out War # 1(by Guillaume Singelin , Alex Paknadel , Matthew Rosenberg and Pasquale Qualano ) , various survivor of Nightwing ’s new Earth social club encounter a vampirized Azrael , who claims to be a member of the Order of the Gray Sun - straightaway handmaiden of the vampiric government . This new name is an interesting choice , since not only does it cite the fact the vampire have successfully blocked out the sunlight , but also calls back to Dick ’s original nefarious luck in the DC Universe .
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Nightwing grow up in a carnival , but this genus Circus had a dark secret - it was actuallyrun by the Court of Owls . The Court would clean the most talented acrobat from Haly ’s genus Circus and take them in , train them to become the next Talon , an hatchet man for the Court . While this is already spoiled news for Dick , there was an even bigger connection that he in person had to the motor lodge . Dick Grayson ’s great - grandfather , William Cobb , specifically give his son the name ' Grayson ' because Cobb wanted the Owls to have him as the"Gray Son of Gotham,“as seen inNightwing # 9by Kyle Higgens , Eddy Barrows , and Andres Guinaldo .
This exhibit that throughout his family agate line Dick Grayson was literally bred to be a sea wolf . Growing up , Dick was mean to eventually unite the Court and become their greatest Talon . Dick avoided becoming the novel ' Gray Son of Gotham ' in DC ’s mainstream reality , but now as the vampiric Gray Sun , he ’s finally claiming a variation of the blanket that Bruce Wayne helped him debar . Nightwing is such a herothat his good nature is actually a multiversal constant quantity , but there is still dark in his yesteryear always give for him . His novel title shows that in this reality , his gloaming is n’t random , but the fulfilment of his specify origin as a killer supreme - albeit one who rules Earth rather than serving the Court .
In becoming the Gray Sun , Dick Grayson has both embraced and defied his intended destiny - rather of being something that was mean to designate servitude , the name is used for someone who rules over all . Nightwing ’s new power is beyond anything theCourt of Owls dreamed for him , and yet the tragic truth is that Dick Grayson has excuse their twisted program for him by showing just how gamy he can rise once he embraces evil .
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DC vs. Vampires : All - Out War # 1is available now from DC Comics .
