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Nightwing Secret Files - A "Lost" NTT story

Feb 09, 2009 00:49

It's not often you find ALL the original pages of a story, but it helps when it's only four pages long.

This is the original art for a story from Nightwing Secret Files and Origins #1. Snagged from the Comicartfans.com pages of Michael Lovitz, whose art collection has me whimpering in desirous envy every time I peruse it.

( Big time Robin woobies! )

robin, dick, art: phil jimenez, teen titans

Comments 3

sistermagpie February 9 2009, 01:19:52 UTC

There's nothing I love more than stories that draw that great distinction between Robin!Dick and Bat!Rest of the family. I know he changed his costume to blend in with the night more and all, but he is always a robin at heart. It's not that he can't do the lovely mourning in the rain dropping blue roses into the night sky from his perch atop the gargoyle--he can and does. He just does it in the freshest stages of grief. Then he moves through it to a different stage. Only because he now lives in current continuity he was raised in Batman's Gothic House of Emo!Pain it took him a while to accept the Grayson Way of Mourning. And I'm ridiculously proud of him when he does it.:-D

icon_uk February 9 2009, 01:31:48 UTC

I don't think you can sell short Batman's influence here. Even the modern era version Batman believed that if Dick grew up to be as UNLIKE his mentor as possible, then he'd count his time as father figure well spent; he ensured (against his own wishes sometimes) that Dick embraced the things that Bruce had never allowed himself; friends, social contacts etc. Though he perhaps hadn't counted on him growing UP and moving out the way Dick wanted to do, which did lead to some conflict.

Bruce is probably, at some level, jealous of Dick's ability to process and move beyond tragedy, because he never really has.

sistermagpie February 9 2009, 02:11:34 UTC

Oh yes, very true. I think any thoughts that Dick has about how it should be done come from himself watching Bruce. It's like he said at one point, he tended to want to be like Bruce because he saw him as a great role model, and Bruce just let him be who he wanted to be. He never told him to be more like him.

If anything I think Bruce tried to learn from Dick and is thrilled that he's not the same. Even in current continuity he's said that's what he's most proud of in his life.