Story: Forever Hold Your Peace
Writer(s): Devin Grayson
Pencils: Greg Land
Inks: Bob McLeod
Characters:
Dick Grayson / Nightwing, Emily Claire Washburn
Minor Characters / Guest Appearances:
Bruce Wayne / Batman, Tim Drake / Robin III, Alfred Pennyworth, Barbara Gordon / Oracle, Wally West / Flash III, Linda Park, Donna Troy, Roy Harper, Lian Harper, Dennis (Emily's son from her first marriage), Annelise Schubert (childhood friend of Annelise), David Schubert (Annelise's father), James Stridham (Emily's deceased ex-husband three; son of a WayneCorp executive), Douglas (owner of Douglas Auto Salvage), Mr. Fulson (off-screen, business man who wants to dump chemical waste illegally), Harry (one of Fulson's two thugs )
Synopsis:
Dick marries Emily Washburn to find out whether she killed her prematurely deceased previous husbands. It turns out her childhood friend Annelise is framing Emily to avenge her father David Schubert, who is in Blackgate, because he took the fall for Emily's first husband in a counterfeiting operation and Emily's husband got away with the money.
Dick Grayson Character Details:
- Dick enjoys spending time with Emily's kid Dennis, they go to the zoo, the circus [p. 12, 31]
- when Dennis wants to play Superman and Batman ("Look! Look! I'm Superman! You be Batman, okay?") Dick declines ("Uh, no, thanks. But how about I help you fly?") [p. 12]
- Dick's mother was a dental assistant from the East Coast before she fell in love with Dick's father and married into the circus life. [p. 13]
- Dick's father was Romany. [p. 13]
- Dick is horsing around with Tim on a rooftop when Batman and Robin visit, acting a lot like a big brother [p. 41]
Bruce Wayne Character Details:
- Bruce says he wants Dick to inherit WayneCorp some day. [p. 11]
- Bruce uses Alfred's concern as an excuse to look after Dick ("Alfred asked me to see if--"), but Dick sees through that ("You can tell Alfred that I'm a big boy [...] ...and it's nice to see you too.") [p. 40]
Romances:
- although a minister marries Dick and Emily, Dick asks Donna to destroy marriage certificate, thus the marriage never became legal [p. 16]
- Dick actually sleeps on the couch during the "marriage" and skillfully arranges separate rooms for their honeymoon (with the help of "Oracle Travel"), so it's implied that he never actually sleeps with Emily. She proposes marriage counselling.
- Dick cares about Emily and offers to "start over" after he had cleared her name, but he's not in love with her, and Emily doesn't want to continue a relationship. [p. 53]
- There is some romantic tension between Dick and Barbara [p. 14ff]
Trivia:
- Dennis watches Superman cartoons on tv.