This year's Nightwing Annual explains the current run's over-arching villains.
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scans_dailyThey've already been introduced - Olivia Pearce, CEO of the super-weapons company Spheric Solutions, and the inhuman Zanni.
They're the last of the " Cirque du Sin ", criminals Nightwing stopped with Batman back when he was Robin. The Zanni was the power behind, and Olivia was the group's " Colombina " (commedia dell'arte references both.)
They've been making things happen in Blüdhaven - Pearce's helped normalize walking tanks as police equipment and the Zanni's inflicted fifth-dimensional travails on Nightwing.
Their endgame is the world as circus, with Dick their " ringmaster ".
( What this Annual's story establishes is why they want that. )
They're the last of the " Cirque du Sin ", criminals Nightwing stopped with Batman back when he was Robin. The Zanni was the power behind, and Olivia was the group's " Colombina " (commedia dell'arte references both.)
They've been making things happen in Blüdhaven - Pearce's helped normalize walking tanks as police equipment and the Zanni's inflicted fifth-dimensional travails on Nightwing.
Their endgame is the world as circus, with Dick their " ringmaster ".
( What this Annual's story establishes is why they want that. )
