To say that a lot’s changed since the first time Dick Grayson teamed up with Batman is like saying Gotham’s crime rate is slightly higher than average. Masked superheroes are outlaws in Gotham with orders to be shot on sight. The GCPD has been cobbled, with the fascist Magistrate given authority over keeping the peace. And the Batman that Dick knows—who raised him after the death of his parents—is now believed to be dead, and it’s unclear if Nightwing knows that he’s actually still very much alive.
In a word, things in Gotham have gone thoroughly to hell.
But not everything’s lost.
