Action Mullett!

Awww, Nightwing and Flamebird. We need more Flamebirds.

Warning! Perhaps not worksafe, though not really skin showing.

Hmmmm, Girl Nightwing.

Business in the front, party in the back.

Awww, Nightwing and Flamebird. We need more Flamebirds.

(Sudden sound of something clicking into place.)

Sorry, just figured out how to tie up some futurecrack.

I'm not entirely certain that Girl Nightwing manip is work safe, as a warning. Not, you know, that it matters to my non-working self.

I'm definitely addicted to Y the Last Man. Everyone should read it. It's so great. I do love a comic where the main character spouts pop-culture references all the time, and that has last-page reveals that make me literally drop the book.

I like that one, too. Do you know when the next tpb is coming out?

Not a clue. Ethan let me read the first trade, which hooked me, and then I read the last five issues and #10 and #11 today. New issue tomorrow, The Fourth Rail gives it a great review. Each issue is such a fast read; they're all page-turners.

Do you read Ex Machina ? That's awesome as well.

Nope. It's been recommended to me a couple of times, but I'm trying to cut back on my comic intake. I'll probably start picking them up when they're collected.

Interesting interview with Marv Wolfman from the 80s about the decision to turn Robin into Nightwing, and their conception of Dick Grayson

"Dick Grayson, since he had no real identity before we got to him, now belongs to us. We're even listed now as the creators of the character. Now he's become Nightwing, a name that's been used before, but not in the same character at all. I want to make him a swashbuckler, an acrobat, an incredibly good fighter. In many ways, he's the Titans' answer to Captain America.

"I want to make him happy-go-lucky, bring back the enjoyment of adventure that he had. One thing I liked that Marv did in issue #39 was how openly Dick speaks his affection to Koriand'r now, calling her 'm'Iove' and everything, making passes at her right in front of everybody with absolutely no worries anymore. The hang-ups are disappearing. He's not going to be that morose character he had been in trying to find his identity. Now he's found it. Now we're going to use Dick Grayson the way we want to use him, utilizing both his detective and acrobatic skills."

A seminal turning point in the Grayson affair was captured by Wolfman and Mike W. Barr in the Titans' crossover with Batman and the Outsiders last year. ''It established that Dick is a very good leader. Batman is not a born leader; he's never had to lead men. But Dick Grayson is a born leader. He has full control over the Titans, which Batman does not have over the Outsiders. That was a very good point which they'd brought out, what makes Dick Grayson different. As Nightwing, we're going to have fun with Dick now. He's definitely become a character independent and mature."

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Hee. Flamebird is funny on an entirely different level than Chastewing.