THE BAT SIGNAL: DeFalco Debuts Lady Shiva In "Nightwing"

[CBR News]

Tom DeFalco spoke with THE BAT SIGNAL about his two-issue "Nightwing" story featuring the New 52's Lady Shiva, how it ties into September's #0 issue and his hopes to return to Gotham City in the future.


Full article here.

[Badou]

Not really sold on the ponytail weapon, honestly. Just seems too gimmicky and impractical, but I guess that's comics.

Interested in seeing how Shiva ties into Dick's past, but nothing really new revealed in the article.

[JaggedFel]

So help me god if they try to hamfist some romance into this. Honestly, I have a feeling they plan to ruin one of my favorite characters

[Godlike13]

I honestly don't know what to think of this.

[ArnoldoAAD]

all of this piece dedicated to Lady Shiva and not even one mention of Cass?

[Godlike13]

all of this piece dedicated to Lady Shiva and not even one mention of Cass?

She obviously has no relevance to the upcoming story.

[JasonTodd428]

She obviously has no relevance to the upcoming story.

And being that Shiva is deaged it's possible she may not even exist yet or may even be too young to be actively involved in her mother's work.

[JaggedFel]

And being that Shiva is deaged it's possible she may not even exist yet or may even be too young to be actively involved in her mother's work.

Its DC. You can easily accelerate Cass's aging.

[Brave Sir Robbin]

all of this piece dedicated to Lady Shiva and not even one mention of Cass?

I think Didio at least has been clear that while Cassandra and Stephanie may come back, it isn't going to happen soon.

Lady Shiva was a great character on Birds of Prey. However, she was sort of tied to Black Canary through their training with the same master. I wonder how this writer is going to use her with Nightwing. She was a great character in BOP and wasn't evil as much as a ruthless killer that didn't feel bound to much of any morality, good or bad.

[carabas]

She was a great character in BOP and wasn't evil as much as a ruthless killer that didn't feel bound to much of any morality, good or bad.

How is a ruthles killer not bound by any morality not evil? Besides, Shiva was very bound by morality. She was all about morality. It just asn't our classical good/evil morality.

[collecktor10]

I love Lady Shiva, but a weaponized ponytail???. She's one of most deadliest fighters in the world. She doesn't need weapons, just her hands. Please don't mess up one of my favorite characters.

[DragonPiece]

I'm not a fan of Defalco but I always like him teasing crossovers(not actually doing crossovers(Such as Superboy in the "culling".)

[Ed Sizzers]

Looks like DC are sticking firmly to their current adage "If it ain't broke... try and fix it anyway."

[Godlike13]

LoL, was Shiva working? When is the last time she was even relevant?

[Statham]

LoL, was Shiva working? When is the last time she was even relevant?

Birds of Prey. Before Simone's second run where Huntress managed to stand up to a beating from her after getting a reaction from splashing Shiva's face. And before the run with Tim knocking her out with doped chocolates.

As it is, I'm looking forward to this. Couldn't care less about the removal of her status as Cass' mother, because frankly, she was always the least important piece of that puzzle, to me; Cass got everything she needed from her father and his style of training.