The Titans replace the Justice League - what you need to know about Nightwing #100

DC didn't exactly kღeep it a secret, but here 𝔍are the details about how it went down and the questions it raises

Nightwing #100 art
Nightwing #100 art (Image credit: DC)

DC hasn't made it a secret that in 2023, it is positioning the Nightwing-led Titans as its premiere superhero team, leaving the Justice League disbanded as they rethink their mission statement in the wake of📖 Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths.

In real-world terms, that means the publisher is giving the Justice League title a bre🌜ak for a little while before it inevitably returns in a triumphant relaunch sometime in the foreseeable future.

But for now, it will be Titans, and DC has also made no secret these plans would be formalized in January 17's extra-sized milestone issue Nightwing #100 by writer Tom Taylor and artists Bruno Redondo, R💎ick Leonardi, Scott McDaniel, Mikel Janin, and Javier Fernandez.

In the f🍬irst, visiting the empty remains of the destroyed Hall of Justice (which happened during Dark Crisis on💦 Infinite Earths), Wonder Woman and Superman ask Nightwing to lead while they're "discussing the future of the Justice League."

"You want me to guard the planet?" Dick asks Superཧman, "We do, replies the Man of Steel." After Dick quips "Right, No pressure," Superman responds "We can't think ofꦦ safer hands for our world to be in."

That scene ends with Nightwing saying he has to think it over because Blüdhaven still needs his help so much. After a much more p🍌ersonal seq♌uence with Batman that we covered in greater detail here, Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, and the DCU get their answer in the issue's fi🔯nal pages.

Short story shorter, as opposed to rebuilding the prison, Dick (who's now very, very wealthy thanks to inheriting Alfred's estate), decides to buy it, and in a mission statement that recognizes boౠth his commitment to Blüdhaven and the planetary leadership role he's been asked to fill, he determines that the towering former prison🍌 will be symbolically rebuilt into the latest iteration of the T-shaped Titans Tower (which frankly seems to get destroyed and rebuilt very frequently), and instead of taking over as a new Justice League leader, Blüdhaven will become the Titans' new home.

Nightwing is joined at a press conference announcing these details by the same Titans line-up that joined him earlier in the issue, so it appears as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Newsarama predicted early last year, that classic and deserving Titans line-up will indeed re♍place the Justice Leaguཧe … though as we say, likely for just a brief time being.

But for the imm💧ediate future, the remaining questions are will the Titans get a new series in the new Dawn of DC era ♛befitting their elevated status quo; and if so, will there be any additions or changes to their line-up?

More answers may come in next month's Nightwing #1ꦐ01, or perhaps as early as DC's April 2023 solicitations, due later this month.

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