Tim Seely & Tom
King “Grayson Volume One: Agents of
Spyral” (DC Comics, 2015)
Word is that DC has slowly started doing a few titles with a
different style than their normal house style.
I’ve never been a big Dick Grayson fan, but that change in tone &
style is more than enough to get me checking it out.
There’s some big convoluted nu52 backstory, but I don’t know
that it matters a whole bunch. All you
need to know is that Dick Grayson is no longer a superhero, now he’s a
spy! He’s working with Helena Bertinelli
(who is NOT the Huntress) for some super agency called Spyral (get it “spy” and
the leader’s face is a spiral! Yes, I’d
groan if I didn’t feel sad & somehow dirty about the whole thing.)
Basically I felt like this was a big mess. Apparently Dick is really undercover for
Batman, because…. (Batman has to be in every title?) I don’t really know. Or more importantly care.
This is such a weird book.
On the one hand, it’s clearly not for adults—look at the groan worthy
names, villains, etc… It’s like a Bond story written by a 13 year old. Yet for all its childishness, it never
actually feels fun or playful. It’s
adolescent all the way down.
Grayson is
absolutely professionally executed, but I don’t know that in a crowded marketplace
that means a lot. If I want a spy book,
Velvet is a much better one and it doesn’t have the odd superhero baggage that
this title seems to carry with it.
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