Ha ha ha ha ha!

[lithera]

As of Nightwing #115....

Devon Grayson will no longer be writing it.

I'd been hearing rumors of it but now it is official.

Excellent. I can start buying it again.

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[terrasias.livejournal.com]

As of the One Year Later... event, a lot of the writing teams will be changing...

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah.

But this one makes me super happy.

[ocicat.livejournal.com]

I know you're a huge Nightwing fan (and I'm not, so I haven't read her Nightwing run) but I'm curious: why do you hate Devon so much?

You have my permission to rant.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Well, it didn't start out too badly. But it has invovled the biggest Mary Sue in all of comics. She doesn't think her fans are worth talking to. She had her Mary Sue /rape/ Nightwing (and I mean that literally) and pretty much ignored some important points of continuity.

I didn't like him being written as a clueless moron half of the time, unable to defend himself emotionally or think about the consequences of his actions.

[apestyle.livejournal.com]

Devon enjoyed high-drama and messing with people's minds.

Personally, I kinda liked it.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

There were parts of it I liked. There were parts of it I couldn't stand. It got to be way too much.

[apestyle.livejournal.com]

The part I didn't like? Dick mooning over Barbara so much that he...*shakes head*

Dick should be the mack, he shouldn't be so hung up.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

While Dick is someone that all the women want the charming part, the best part, is how he never seemed to notice. I liked him and Barbara together. For being so 'mack' he's only ever really had like three girls in his life.

[apestyle.livejournal.com]

I'm just saying as he's written now, he's so limp and powerless. I dislike it, I think he could be a lot more than he is now.

I wouldn't mind him and Barbara if she you know, reciprocated without being so damned back-and-forth about it.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

She was. He was being just as back and forth as she was. It was a moment of misunderstanding.

I dislike how Devin writes him as wishy-washy and indecisive. That or the other way he's written in The Outsiders is far, far too close to Batman, except apparently with no self-control and flying off the handle at people all the time.

It sucks either way.

[sausage-boy.livejournal.com]

Son of a...
And I just quit NW.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee.

[samy.livejournal.com]

I may start reading again too.

Dick's supposed to be the well-adjusted guy. Not an angst machine like Devin writes him, nor an obsession machine like Bruce. Not reckless or immature either. He's...*normal*. Weird as that might be for a superhero. He's actually sane and centered.

I hope the next writer gets this. And also is someone who equally enjoys Dick's Titans ties to his Bat-ties. That's why I dropped the book during Dixon's run again; it seemed mandated to ignore any and all Titans references, and pull Dick kicking and screaming to re-become sole property of the Bat-ghetto.

The whole point of Dick is that he's 50/50 Batverse/DCU; he's like the linchpin that fits equally well into both worlds.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Agreed.