Category: Nightwing

If you like Batman comic series, you will like to read comics about adventures of Nightwing but to understand their connection, the entire concept should be revealed. This pseudonym was used by several characters from DC Comics universe. The story begins in the city of Gotham with a twelve-year teenager, Dick Grayson, watching how his whole family was murdered in front of him and the half of their city. His parents were prominent acrobats called the Flying Graysons, and Dick was the member of the troop. The circus owner was owed money to a dangerous crimelord who decided to teach him a lesson – his bandits snapped the wire on which the Graysons were performing. After this tragic loss, Dick was placed in a juvenile establishment, and he got in trouble with other children. After being beaten several times, he was sent to a Catholic asylum where orphans where taken care of and he met Bruce Wayne.
He was a very lonely and sometimes weird billionaire with a little secret – he was Batman, a superhero saving people and punishing villains. He adopted Dick from the position of his official ward and in the end revealed him this little secret. After that, Dick made a promise to become as strong as Bruce and to fight criminals. That was appreciated with Bruce who needed a sidekick, so he taught Dick himself, and that’s how a new superhero was born – Robin. They gave a mutual oath to fight together against evil and crime. Dick had to pass a complicated test after his training was over to prove that he can protect himself and other people. Well, he succeeded and even jailed a couple of criminals. He also becomes the leader of a superteenagers group called the Teen Titans whose members were famous Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl and others.
Batman and Robin were destroying criminals’ plans and intentions during some fruitful years until Robin was practically killed by a villain Two-Face. This criminal captured Batman and a police officer in a tricky pit. Robin couldn’t save the officer and was horribly beaten by Two-Face in front of his teacher. Eventually, Batman saved them – unfortunately, Robin’s attitude towards the superhero enterprise changed completely. He had no desire to work as Robin anymore, so he went for advice to his friend Superman. After serious considerations, Dick decided to work on his own under the name of Nightwing to gain more independence plus confidence. This is the name of a superhero from Krypton, native planet of Superman.
His relationships with Batman deteriorated – they even weren’t speaking with each other for some time. But when Bruce was seriously injured and needed time to recover, he asked Nightwing to unite with new Robin to stop villains in Gotham. He was even substituting Bruce as Batman by wearing his costume and doing his duties on few occasions. And Dick got the chance to say his gratitude to him for his saving. The son of one of the most ardent Batman’s foes, Alexander Luther, attacked him with a new deadly weapon and Nightwing shielded him taking the terrible injury. A lot of months passed before he could turn back to his ordinary and superhero life. But something broke inside of him after that accident. Dick decided to leave his costume to Batman and to try living the life of an average citizen. Maybe, that would have worked, if Dick hadn’t found new information about his parents’ death and that person who had been responsible for the murder. He connected Batman to get his assistance, and they set off to establish justice.