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[ratcreature]

Somehow I found this scene from this story (Nightwing and Robin: Partners, written by Doug Moench, art by Bob McLeod) in Showcase '93 #12 really amusing, thus I'm sharing scans of two pages. Nightwing and Robin are hassled by two cops, who hate "flashy ginks" and "skintight spraypainted showoffs" and are angry that "our Halloween party boys had a little fun here on the docks"...

The two pages these quotes are from, so that you can see the homophobic superherophobic cops for yourself:

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[lcsbanana.livejournal.com]

...dude. Transparent metaphor much?

And poor Tim is all hot-headed and outraged and sulking and...kind of monkey-faced. Man.

[ratcreature]

Yeah not exactly subtle... *grin*

Though really it's kind of surprising that they don't have more often problems to be taken seriously by law enforcement with their outfits. Okay, Nightwing's current costume is really sleek, but the first one? So it was the 80s and I can see how it doesn't matter that much when you're around orange aliens fighting Brother Blood, but in a place like Gotham fighting street crime? Not so appropriate.