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Warning : spoilers for Detective Comics # 1039 are ahead .
Nightwinghas set up himself as aDC Comicshero independent of his former mentor , Batman , and nowhere is this more percipient than in his move to Blüdhaven from Gotham City . Just a few miles away from Gotham , Blüdhaven is a former whaling citywith exchangeable problems of offence and violence , with an even more disturbing level . While Gotham ’s villains are said to be consumed by a type of " folly , " the villain in Blüdhaven are roughshod for the rice beer of being cruel , as Nightwing points out in Tom Taylor , Bruno Redondo , Adriano Lucas , and Wes Abbott’sNightwing#78 . And while Gotham City ’s baddie problem has necessitate the existence of Batman and other heroes who help protect the city , Blüdhaven is protected mostly by Nightwing only . As one might imagine , leaving the safety of a city in the hands of just one human beings comes with its own circle of risks , which a back - up story inDetective Comics#1039 has finally revealed .
The Life & Times of Hue Vilefrom writer and creative person T. Rex , colorist Simon Gough , and letterer Dave Wielgosz delves into the personal history ofGotham City ’s New villain . After becoming infect with a leechlike hemipteron that feeds off of violence when he was a tike , Hue Vile move to Gotham City to best take vantage of the city ’s existing problems . As Hue Vile border closer to his plan of making Gotham his feeding ground , he made use of goods and services of the fact that Blüdhaven was so often left assailable by Nightwing whenever Dick Grayson was called back to Gotham City by Batman . With Nightwing off from Blüdhaven , Vile could more easy feed himself while stay hidden from authorities .
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This secret history that Hue Vile has with Blüdhaven strike on some longstanding tensions between Nightwing and Batman related to Dick Grayson ’s move aside from Gotham . WhileNightwing has been one of Batman ’s closest alliesfor several decades now , there is a monetary value that Blüdhaven pays whenever their main defender is called aside by Batman . Though Blüdhaven is a much little metropolis than Gotham , the scope of its job can not be ignore , and the agony of its people are every bit important to consider .
Currently , in Nightwing ’s solo serial , he has devote himself to becoming Blüdhaven ’s " safety earnings , " and while this is an come-at-able goal for him , it is one that he needs to be capable to prosecute without being taken out of his city once again by Batman . Becoming a billionaire overnightafter receiving an heritage from Alfred Pennyworth , Dick Grayson now has the unprecedented opportunity to do for Blüdhaven what he has always thought Bruce Wayne should have done with Gotham City . But if Batman bear on to call Nightwing back in for assistance in Gotham City , he will never be able-bodied to fully protect innocent masses in Blüdhaven , because there is a body numeration entrust behind by his absence .
Gotham City looms prominent in DC Comics because of its repute as a place infested by some of the universe ’s worst outlaw , but asDick Grayson ’s activity in Blüdhaven demonstrate , Gotham is far from the only position that is in need of the great unwashed to protect its innocent citizens and address its systemic inequalities . While the situation in Gotham is dire , the currentNightwingrun has demo how so many of Blüdhaven ’s problem fly under the radiolocation , because the urban center does not get the same type of tending that Gotham does . This makes Batman calling in Nightwing from Blüdhaven even more egregious , because not only is he his metropolis ’s chief vigilance man , he is also base in a city whose problem would never get address without him being there in the first plaza . From this , it is clean that in order forNightwingto be the Italian sandwich Blüdhaven want , he must leave behind his reproducible loyalty to Batman .
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