a question about the new Nightwing...

[ratcreature]

I'm really hoping here that it wasn't Giz and Mouse who blew up Dick's building. I really like the two, and they always seemed fairly sane villains, with a preference for non-violent techno crime. And after all they asked Blockbuster whether the building would be empty. I hope that is to be interpreted that they turned him down, but then who else blew up the building? (If Tarantula is to be believed that she didn't do it, but wanted to save John Law.) What do you make of it? I want to think that it was someone else from Blockbuster's costumed villains group who did it, and that Blockbuster did not manage to pressure Giz and Mouse to blow it up with people inside. I mean, Giz and Mouse are the only ones of those "supervillain" bozos Blockbuster hired to wear down Nightwing whom I care about.

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[buggery.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing you've gotten your hands on #90 by now...

It does, indeed, look like they did the bombing. They all but admit it, protesting when Dick catches up to them that the building was supposed to have been empty, but... that's weak. You saw Blockbuster's body language; if he did say that (and I'm inclined to think he didn't bother coddling them with a lie) they should've at least doubted him enough to check for themselves.

For that matter... it's hard to imagine how they could've set the explosives without it being inescapably obvious that the building was occupied.

Maybe it'll turn out that Blockbuster leveraged some heavy pressure on them, to get them to go along. Because otherwise... man, the kids in that building. I mean, I'm personally grieving more for Yoska, but... the families. John Law. All those people.

And the detonation trigger is another issue. Blockbuster clearly wanted Dick not to be killed in the explosion, the better to make him suffer. Which raises uncomfortable questions about who exactly pushed the button, and from where.