For the last few months, Richard Grayson aka the first Robin aka the human Nightwing has eschewed his usual short form, Dick, in favor of calling himself Ric Grayson. The story is… something, but I’m not sure if going by Ric-with-no-k is actually any better than the possibly crude nomenclature he’s used since 1940. It reminds me of a guy I used to work with in radio who insisted on going by his ill-fitting air name (as opposed to a lot of people for whom their alias was more or less their real name) and undermines a little bit of the drama of his traumatic brain injury, leading to today’s roc-n-rol query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) also thinks that Ric will age as badly as (and much faster than) Dick ever did, asking: Is changing the former Robin’s name to “Ric Grayson” any improvement to your ear?
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No, just makes me feel like “New Coke” kinda thing.
No. It sounds like an editorial edict built on time worn tropes of amnesia.