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Grayson, Volume 1: Agents of Spyral by Juan Castro, Stephen Mooney, Tom King, Guillermo Ortego, Jonathan Glapion, Carlos M. Mangual, Mikel Janín, Jeremy Cox, Tim Seeley, Andrew Robinson
4.0

I mostly read Marvel stuff and usually only pick up DC stuff when it's come highly recommended to me. I'd read some positive things about Grayson and I have a fondness for anything that can be described as "James Bond-y" so when it came in at my library, I picked it up, even though I haven't read much Nightwing or other Batman-y things.

So, I didn't really have most of the context for whatever started this, and also I really don't care. Dick Grayson is playing dead for some reason, fine, I get it, let's do SPY STUFF NOW!! And it was really fun spy stuff!!

Also I had sort of mentally filed this away in my head as an LGBTQ book and I guess I wasn't sure why?
Spoileridk if this is a spoiler but anyway the end of this arc includes Dick Grayson being ordered to pretend to be gay, which seems like... it could be interesting... or a trainwreck... and I can't actually remember what else I've read about it.
So, I guess I'll have to read [b:Grayson Vol. 2: We All Die at Dawn|28700658|Grayson Vol. 2 We All Die at Dawn|Tim Seeley|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1453784598s/28700658.jpg|48911177] to follow up on that!

Oh also at the end of this is a one-shot (I guess?), GRAYSON: FUTURE’S END #1, which I thought was really cool and also confusing? It's told backwards... and also maybe in some kind of Soviet AU... or something... but I really liked it. I liked it enough to read it twice and do some light code-breaking even though often when books want me to do things like that I can't be bothered to follow through with it.