Finished reading Grayson: Agents of Spyral, this begins a new status quo change for former superhero Dick Grayson after being unmasked by the Crime Syndicate and being presumed dead after the events of Forever Evil. The book opens up with Spyral agent Helena Bertnelli meeting with her boss Mr Minos with a proposal for former Nightwing and original Robin Dick Grayson to be recruited into the organisation as the new agent 37 while the two are going over the origin of Dick's character. The second story has Dick and Helena catching a train in Siberia as the two hope to retrieve a man named Ninel Dubov for Spyral who happens to have an implant that gives him the ability to shoot energy blasts. The next story has Dick and Helena driving from to Farmington, Leicester after fellow Spyral agent the Hood fell unconscious on the field of the St Hadrian's school after coming into contact with Dr Ashemoore who was given an enhanced stomach that gave her super speed with the downside of turning her into a cannibal in order to have enough energy to feed the stomach through the calories she consumes. The following story as the two spy partners teaming up with Agents 1 and 8 to retrieve a set of eyes from the Old Gun who can only see through the barrels of his two guns after his own eyes were damaged from a shot In the face and hopes to use the eyes that Spyral wants for himself. After retrieving the eyes and a mission to Malaysia a small group of St Hadrian's students go on the search for Dick after one of them noticed him outside his window causing Mr Minos to give Dick a new cover story while at the school. The final story begins five years in the future where Dick is seemingly killed by being hanged in Russia as the story flashes back to different parts of his life all the way to the night that his parents were killed by Tony Zucco which lead to Dick becoming Batman's first sidekick, the original Robin. Overall this was a great book as it places Dick Grayson into a new setting without it changing the core of his character as writers Tim Seeley and Tom King keep things like his moral core that could be easily changed due to Dicks new surroundings. The comedy is stellar and on point as Dick has some great one liners and the sort of situations he gets into along with the interactions Mr Minos has with Helena and Dick when they are being debriefed for missions. The addition of Batman within the book helps to show the relationship Dick as with him as the two have a couple of heart warming interactions while Batman is dealing with crime in Gotham. While the structure of the final story with it flashing back in time explaining different parts of the story in an almost reverse use of foreshadowing is very intriguing as different things are noticed on a second read of the story. 8/10.
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