It’s the perfect emblem for how focused mainstream comics have traditionally been on their target audience - teenaged, heterosexual, mostly white and male - to the exclusion of all others. It’s meant to satisfy the male gaze by allowing it to see boobs and butts simultaneously, even though the pose would be exceedingly painful to try to emulate in real life, if not anatomically impossible. Twist the upper part of your torso around as far as it can go, so as much of your chest as possible is visible in the mirror as well, while keeping as much of your ass visible as possible. Stand in front of a full-length mirror, then turn around so your bottom is perfectly parallel to the mirror itself. To understand the significance of this, you need to understand the pose itself. It’s the panel where artist Nicola Scott drew the male hero in the infamous “boobs-and-butt” pose, which female superheroes have been placed in for decades.

Nightwing only stops by for a few pages, telling some supervillains to get their acts together, but it’s not his advice that anyone remembers. The iconic keister first came into prominence (tee hee) in 2009’s Secret Six #9, written by Gail Simone. (Grayson-as-Nightwing finally made his live-action debut last year on Titans, which only airs on the DC Universe streaming service.) In the comics, however, Nightwing has been a major character since his debut: He’s led the Teen Titans, filled in for Batman on multiple occasions, was briefly a superspy and starred in his own solo comic almost non-stop since 1996, which is no small feat.īut his greater feat may be this: Dick Grayson has become comics’ first and foremost male sex symbol, thanks in no small part to his sexy, sexy ass. He took the name Nightwing, who never entered the pop culture zeitgeist as Robin had. In fact, you may not even know that Grayson stopped being Robin way back in 1984, when he left Batman to strike out on his own. If your knowledge of superhero lore ends with the modern cornucopia of live-action entertainment, the magnificence of Dick Grayson’s ass is likely unknown to you.

The second is his ass, which has become the most famous - and sexiest - behind in comics. The first is that he was Batman’s most famous sidekick, the original Robin, aka the Boy Wonder. There are two comic book achievements that Dick Grayson will always be remembered for.

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