Midnighter #4 - Midnighter and Dick strip naked, take a bath and beat each other with branches

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I'm not even entirely sure I'm joking there....

Midnighter #4 had a preview up now (Well, it's out today) and hitflix has an interview with writer Steve Orlando

Here's a snippet!

HF: Can we talk a little about the art style? Because as a lady I am very grateful for the sequence that is happening as the preview ends. It seems like with Grayson and Midnighter (among other characters), DC is starting to realize you can't just have cheesecake, but beefcake is also very welcome. Is that something you guys you specifically add in visually because of Midnighter's sexual orientation or is it just a natural outcropping of his personality?

STEVE: I think it's part of his personality. If you try to do it too much 'on purpose' it's not going to come off right. But yes, there are some fascinating things for fans of that type of content in MIDNIGHTER #4! But you know, we were also in Russia and it's a classic cultural thing that happens there. So the opportunity was there and I thought 'Why not do it?' Midnighter is a guy that doesn't care who he makes uncomfortable, he's going to say exactly what he thinks and exactly what he's feeling. 

You're right though. There are plenty of books that have a certain type of male gaze and it's exciting to update that. Tim Seeley and Tom King started it in Grayson and it's something I think is great. It's bold and unapologetic but it's fun. And it's an exciting friendly competition as Tim, Tom, and I try to outdo each other with flirtation and innuendo between Midnighter and Grayson!

Yay! :)



Well, Dick's propensity to elicit protective feelings in brooding older men has been noted too many times to even be coincidence any more.



Midnighter #3 ended with a scene of a Spyral operation with Matron and Agent 37 dealing with it, better known as Helena Bertinelli and Dick Grayson respectively, when all of a sudden, who should pop up but... well, it's not really a surprise is it since it's his comic, but...



I suspect chocolates and a movie aren't on the cards....


And so in #4 we have this lovely little scene...





Followed by this LOVELIER little scene!



Am I a bad person for wanting to see a towel fight here?

Yeah, thought as much...

Comments

[thenicochan]

So we're shipping Midnighter with Dick now, right?

Grayson. Yeah. I just...yeah.

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Well, not me personally, no.

Though I can see why people might be happy to finally indulge such fancies they might have about Bruce and Dick, but without the somewhat squicky (well, to me at least) father/son aspects of their relationship, and at least on of them being openly gay. Midnighter is, rather weirdly, the "safe" Batman alternative in this context.