I commend DC for trying something new here. They're taking the character out of his comfort zone, and putting him in a new situation. This is much better to see then DC doing nothing, and being content with him just doing his usual thing. This shows they care. That they do want to try new things with Dick, and that they aren't content with leaving him stuck and just spinning his wheels.
Dicks never been a superspy before, and Spyrl hasn't really been explored. So this is new and uncharted territory for Dick, and somthing that could potentially fill the hole DC left him with by ripping the Titans side away from him. Will it be the same, no, but thats ok. Its still something. I don't want to see him do the same things over again anyway. Here he can build new connections with Spyrl, and accomplish new things.
And hes distinct enough that just because hes gonna try the superspy thing it doesn't mean hes gonna turn into Bucky Barnes. And unlike Bucky being a superspy is foreign to Dick. Where being a superhero (Captain America) was foreign to Bucky. Which is part of what made Bucky's Cap run interesting. He was out of his element. Versatile characters can be put in different roles and still be the characters we enjoy. We saw this when Dick became batman.
One of the biggest complaints about Higgins series is that it was ordinary. Changing things up, and thrusting characters in new unexpected and uncharted territory for them is a way u keep things from being ordinary. Complacency is not much better than death for a character like Dick Grayson.
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