I believe "whatnot" translates to "fangirls". And I'm seriously okay with that.

Has anyone here read Mighty Skullboy Army? link Amazon says 12 and up, but I'm wondering if anyone thinks it would be inappropriate for a 10 year old? I picked up a reprint from my local comic store the other day, but I can return it if I need to.

Thank you D/C for trying to balance the scales. The playing field isn't remotely level, but with every new Nightbuttocks shot you're doing your bit.

I was playing Nightwing in Arkham City awhile back and the girlfriend stopped in the middle of what she was doing and commented on his fanservice-level. She had no point of reference for the character (I'm pretty sure this was prior to his appearance on Young Justice) but he immediately caught her attention.

Nightwing is, perhaps, the only character who is canonically able to do those poses

The things I'm thinking about are open to all--it's just that he's the only XY choosing so. This accompanied the fuckable list, and the other one that grabbed my attention this week is this. Whoa, dude. Warn a girl before throwing around your package like that.

As far as the canonically bendy goes, Spider-man is clearly more flexible than most of the Marvel universe, and you can tell that on every cover, but it's less sexualised that Nightwing clenching his glutes for the camera. There's clearly an air of other in with him, but if the DC artists only wanted to make Dick seem flexible, there's some male gymnast room inbetween zero and porn.

A friend of mine just posted to Facebook that she's watching the 60s Batman show and that she feels that it's a truer representation of the character. She feels the Nolan movies tried to hard to modernize him.

Excuse me while I pick up the pieces of my detonated head off the floor.

Well, the comics in the 60s were pretty wacky, so a case could be made that the show reflected the source material of the time.

She's never heard of Frank Miller, I'm assuming? Or maybe the comics at all?

Yeah, I don't know. She's fairly geeky, but I don't think she reads comics.

My comment on her post was "Batman's whole concept is that of a child driven to revenge after watching his parents brutally murdered. I really don't think the old 60s TV show matches that at all." Which comes across harsher than intended in retrospect, but I was dealing with an exploding head at the time.

I'll ask her if she's familiar with the comics at all, or if her only conception of the character comes from the assorted TV and movie appearances.

I want to say TV and movies have been more whacky than not, but thinking about it, the only whacky modern incarnations have been "Batman Forever", "Batman and Robin" and (sort of) "Batman: The Brave and the Bold". Everything else has been varying degrees of the Dark Knight-concept.

Burton's movies featured a Batwing equipped with giant scissors and an army of penguins wearing rockets on their backs.

And Burton also admitted he never read the comics either.