Kyle Higgins talks Nightwing The New Order

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Kyle Higgins talks Nightwing- The New Order
Kyle: [00:06] I came to be aware; oh Dan [unintelligible 00:00:09] told me, at one point they were looking for kind of like the next like Superman Red Son, like he wanted to do like an Elseworlds kind of story. Not Elseworlds exactly, like they weren’t going to bring that name back, but like do an Elseworlds type story. And so, I was like; oh, I want to do that, you know, and so, I was thinking about stuff and I had done 40 issues of Batman Beyond 2.0 with Alex Antone, who’s one of my favorite editors and a very good friend. [00:32] And it was going to be in his, to putting these projects together, was going to be kind of in his jurisdiction. And so, I remember one day I was like thinking out different stuff and different ideas. And the low hanging fruit idea that was just sitting there for me was like doing some sort of like, almost kind of like Dark Knight Returns for Nightwing. And I asked him, I was like, “is this stupid?” Like, “is that such a low hanging fruit idea?” Like…

Omar: No one’s done it.

Kyle: Yeah, but like I wrote Nightwing, but now I'm going to do, like can I just, you know, it's like; God, can Higgins not do anything, like can he do something other than Nightwing for God’s sake?

Omar: [01:03] But you love it, I mean it’s…

Kyle: But I do. And we both agreed like it needed something else, you know, and so, I built out this whole world in this premise that in a lot of ways kind of an allegory about gun violence and control and things like that. But ultimately not really because there's human

Omar: Character…

Kyle: Well, there's like big moral questions that don't map one-to-one as an allegory, you know, like the powers that you're trying to outlaw are tied to human beings, so it's not, it's not the same thing. [01:35] But the starting point is similar; proliferation of these powers and ultimately, anyway, ultimately the powers go away and it's tied to something that Dick Grayson did and how Dick Grayson’s Nightwing basically saved the world. And so, I built out this whole thing and got it approved. [01:54] And I got the artist that I was dying to work with since my time at Gates of Gotham, Trevor McCarthy, we hadn't done anything together interiors Gates of Gotham which was basic and he did the Knight murder story, and so, the very first thing I did at D.C. And, it kind of turned into this like perfect little book and I'm so immensely proud of it. It's six issues; Trevor, Dean White, Clayton Cowles and I did all six issues, there’s no fill ins. It’s the first time Travers has done a whole mini-series like that in a long time, and it's going to be in trade, you know, forever.

Omar: Yeah.

Kyle: [02:33] And so, it's really, it's really cool and cathartic and if it's the last thing I do at D.C., like I feel like, I feel very much at peace of like I told the story I wanted to tell. It's like; I'm good. I got to do something that I'm super, super proud of that I think is really good and my all-time favorite character and like I'm good.

Omar: Yeah, I love it [03:00].