Nicola Scott’s illustration may have opened the floodgates for Nightwing fans to go feral over a fictional man’s two-dimensional tushy, but DC writers like Devin Grayson — no relation, although it is a neat coincidence — paved the way for Scott’s work by placing the hero’s sexuality at the forefront of his character. During an interview with Shameless, Grayson said, “The way I think about [Nightwing], he likes everyone, he’s … just this incredibly physical (and attractive) person who lives wholly in the corporeal plane and responds with … his body before his head or heart.” Combine that with his demeanor, which is often depicted as light-hearted and flirtatious, and it’s little wonder that Dick Grayson’s journey led where it did.
In Tom King and Tim Seely’s 2014 comic “Grayson #6,” a villain who struggles to identify faces clocks Nightwing when he sees the hero bent over, saying, “I’d know that a** anywhere.” More recently, the animated series “Harley Quinn,” as well as its noncanonical comic adaptation “Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill Tour,” locked in enough jokes about Nightwing’s butt to guarantee at least another decade of DeviantArt posts. In Season 4 of the animated series, Nightwing is featured in the “Gotham’s Hottest Hotties” tabloid. In Volume 3 of the comic, Harley Quinn nicknames him “Tushwing” and Poison Ivy says, “Objectification is wrong and women are better than that … but, I mean, have you seen your a**?”
Nicola Scott’s illustration may have opened the floodgates for Nightwing fans to go feral over a fictional man’s two-dimensional tushy, but DC writers like Devin Grayson — no relation, although it is a neat coincidence — paved the way for Scott’s work by placing the hero’s sexuality at the forefront of his character. During an interview with Shameless, Grayson said, “The way I think about [Nightwing], he likes everyone, he’s … just this incredibly physical (and attractive) person who lives wholly in the corporeal plane and responds with … his body before his head or heart.” Combine that with his demeanor, which is often depicted as light-hearted and flirtatious, and it’s little wonder that Dick Grayson’s journey led where it did.
In Tom King and Tim Seely’s 2014 comic “Grayson #6,” a villain who struggles to identify faces clocks Nightwing when he sees the hero bent over, saying, “I’d know that a** anywhere.” More recently, the animated series “Harley Quinn,” as well as its noncanonical comic adaptation “Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill Tour,” locked in enough jokes about Nightwing’s butt to guarantee at least another decade of DeviantArt posts. In Season 4 of the animated series, Nightwing is featured in the “Gotham’s Hottest Hotties” tabloid. In Volume 3 of the comic, Harley Quinn nicknames him “Tushwing” and Poison Ivy says, “Objectification is wrong and women are better than that … but, I mean, have you seen your a**?”