
He received the highest honors in his class, but who do you think missed his graduation ceremony? Oddly, it was held at night rather than during the afternoon and Batman had somewhere to be. It all started when Dick graduated from college.

He and Robin head to the docks, and while Nightwing skips stones he starts to tell Robin about what happened between he and Batman. That was apparently all Nightwing needed to hear to open up. Robin tells him he did, and he told him the exact same thing Nightwing just did. Nightwing tells him simply that “things change” and then tells Robin he should be asking Batman. Nightwing resents the comparison causing Robin to just finally ask what went down between the two so long ago.

When the dust settles it’s time for Nightwing to give Robin a bit of the old tough love routine, which causes Robin to draw a comparison between Batman and Nightwing. With Nightwing’s help, the two take out the goons. Luckily for him, someone is indeed looking out for him, only it’s not Batman, but Nightwing.Īt least someone is looking out for the kid tonight. Robin looks like he’s going to make my fretting all for naught as he seems capable of taking care of these guys, but one drops a barrel over his head and suddenly things start to look a bit grim for the little guy. Surprisingly, he appears to be all alone and without the aid of Batman which seems like an unwise thing to do, but Batman isn’t exactly known for his parenting skills. Robin drops in to put a stop to them and have a little fun at their expense as well. The episode begins with some hoodlums making trouble in Gotham, which is what hoodlums do. Either way, these are questions that needed answers and at least we’ll finally have them. Maybe it would have made sense to run this one earlier, but I suppose it’s not that big of a deal. It’s even going to touch on how Batgirl was truly brought into the fold as well, which really makes this one feel like it’s been a long time coming.

Well past the half way point of the series is “Old Wounds,” a mostly flashback episode detailing the fallout between Batman and the original Boy Wonder. Have you wondered what caused the rift between Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne? Of course you have, but The New Batman Adventures has decided to make you wait a while to find out.
