So, we may now know who the people in the Nightwing and Flamebird costumes are...
Okay, that means nothing to you. Um. Nightwing (Dick Grayson, the first Robin) was originally inspired by the Kryptonian story of Nightwing and Flamebird as told to Dick by Superman, when Bruce told him he wasn't Robin anymore because he'd picked up a hustler in Crime Alley (I love Jason, I do, but OMG Bruce is cruel). So Dick took the name Nightwing, and much later Bette Kane (yes, the old pre-Crisis Bat-Girl) started calling herself Flamebird. There's also been a few times, in various continuities, that Superman has taken the identity of Nightwing, along with a partner calling his or herself Flamebird (Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane have both filled the role).
Anyway, they've cancelled half the bat books, and we were getting teasers in the back with pics of a young man and woman who looked suspiciously like they ought to be called Nightwing and Flamebird - they've got very Kryptonian garb, and winged/flame symbols rather than "the S" ... And I'd been getting a bit flaily in anticipation of the big reveal.
Now we've got this. (please leave aside the incredible stupidity of the "forced evolution" thing. Evolution: You're Doing It Wrong!)
No conclusive proof of anything, of course...but there's only one character in the DCU, EVER, to have Tactile Telekinesis as a power. A certain Kryptonian/human hybrid we haven't seen in a while, due to his being DEAD and there being a HUGE GOLD STATUE of him that FALLS OVER ...
I'm hopeful and apprehensive and confused and flaily.
HE TOOK APART THEIR GUNS! HE!
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