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May 14, 2010 19:37

This post at Comics Alliance about race in DC at the moment is really good. Someone in the comments made the really cogent thought that this is basically what happened on Batgirl in the last couple of years - Cass Cain, a Batgirl who was clearly part of the grim & grittier, (more) modern school of comics, and a character of colour, left her own ( Read more... )

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ethrosdemon May 14 2010, 18:08:10 UTC

Yeah, idk. Dick is white. He has always been pale with black hair and blue eyes, just like Bruce. That was the whole idea--he looked like Bruce.

You know that when they killed Kon it was 50/50 that they were going to kill Dick? The vote was between the two of them. So, again idk, I think they could very well kill him.

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labellementeuse May 15 2010, 08:26:05 UTC

Actually DC prefers to kill characters that people actually like. "Oh, you're upset that we killed that character? We must have been doing our job right!" (This almost sounds plausible but trust me, it ain't.) However, Dick hatred isn't true of any corner of the fandom I've ever hung around in. Presumably there is some somewhere (but then again, everyone I know hates Superman.)

I think a reason they probably considered Dick a few years ago is because his then-identity, Nightwing, wasn't really super familiar - he wasn't part of the JLA, he didn't have much of a profile outside people already pretty familiar with the medium - but Dick Grayson the person had been around basically forever and knew everyone in the DCU, had been in basically every team book other than the JLA/JSA, had had around a million girlfriends, etc. Basically, cheap grief for everyone!

labellementeuse May 15 2010, 08:21:33 UTC

Yeah, I think that's probably the overall feeling, which is what really counts for a character like Dick. OTOH I think in a way part of the post holds - that killing Dick/returning him to the Nightwing costume is basically regressive storytelling of a piece with the regressive storytelling across the DCU at the moment. (Although I suppose in that context Dick has really been one of the characters with the most enduring growth - i.e. he grew up went to college went to Bludhaven etc - Robin is a legacy role that has actually, you know, had a legacyHm. I'd still be really surprised if they killed Dick because by this point I feel like he might as well be a character that it's not sustainable to kill, he's just been around way too long, but he would also be really hard to plausibly bring back - like 85% because we already had two Robins come back to life in what, the last 5 years? I feel like the fact that they went with Kon is indicative of this - they must have known that they'd be bringing him back (and Kon is, IMO, a less significant ( ... )