Circus In Comics - Blog Posts

Another fun part of the Nightwing One Year Later comics, when Dick is searching for a job:

-”Ric” isn’t the first time Dick tried being a taxi driver

-Dick actively decided he didn’t want to join the NYPD when he was searching for jobs

-when he first goes to Bones gym where he ends up teaching trapeze, this happens:

(Nightwing #126)

which was a trip for me because it’s not every day you read about someone you know in a comic. The Flying Gaonas were/are a circus family, one of the best flying trapeze families ever and someone young Dick Grayson was probably familiar with. I’ve only met one of the Gaonas, and only in passing, but it was a name that surprised me to see it pop up. I assume Alex is a made up character, but I wasn’t expecting the reference! Incidentally, this book as an accurate explanation of how to do a proper swing on the trapeze, so someone writing this knew what they were doing. Between this and Dick working at a real-life museum a few issues later, this arc feelings much more grounded in the real world than other ones have.