#nightwing's rattail

[kara-zor-els]

Kara was erased from existance during COIE becuase if she was alive in the late 90s she's be making fun of Dick Grayson's rattail 24/7

[msfcatlover]

Okay look, I like long haired Nightwing as much as the next person, but everyone in his life was very relieved when he started wearing his hair shorter, because you know he chewed on that shit. Split ends & dried saliva meant by the end of a day where Dick had nothing else to distract him, his hair was crunchy in places. More than once, he’d be wrestling with his younger brothers, one of them would get a face or a hand full of hair, and recoil shrieking because it was wet. Someone would call his name, and he’d look up only to have a delayed realization and spit out the lock of hair in his mouth. Bruce unendingly lectured Dick on the risk of leaving DNA evidence at scenes, both in the form of lost hair and the spit in that hair. Stop chewing on your hair, Dick! You’re up to like 3 showers a day, and it’s still nasty!

Then one day, he came over with hair that barely reached his ears, and everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief.

[just-about-nothing]

bold statement coming from early 90s nightwing bestie have u seen urself. the rattail alone girlie (tho i will say 90s dick wins w the looong flowing hair dc bring that back!!!)

[image description: dick grayson as nightwing from the 90s. he is wearing a navy and gold costume, with wide gold stripes on the shoulder, along the elbow, and right below the knee. the bat symbol on his chest is also in gold. he’s wearing a black domino mask and has his hair tied back in what looks like a rat tail ponytail. he’s kicking a gang member and saying ‘I don’t know what scares me more... all those guns or your fashion sense’. end]

[pocketramblr]

au where Jason doesn't think just think Bruce replaced Robin, but also Nightwing- because when he died Dick was rocking the disco bright blue v-neck-to-the-naval and clearly whoever this angsty guy in black and blue kevlar with a rattail is someone else

[sleeping-lilies]

i HATE those grayson comics art style with a PASSION WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE CLAY

rattail dick grayson is just diabolical, ty for cutting it off king <3

hands down, this was the worst era. i think we can all agree on that.

what's the ugliest your fave has ever been in comics?

… ugliest? you want me to choose? BETWEEN THESE???

yj 98 holds a special place in my heart but my GOD the art LMAO

whose pale ass baby is this?

there’s a special place for animated nightwings

finally, quality of art that matches the quality of comics <3 titans academy my detested

[captainlordauditor]

Favorite things about the 1996 run of Nightwing, 2 issues in:

The note that is Extremely plot relevant because it kicks off the entire plot but is also completely illegible due to being written in yellow ink on white paper

DC trying to make a threatening note in yellow ink on white paper signed by someone named Pickles the Clown

Dick Grayson being drawn like a muscle man 

Dick Grayson’s thick, shoulder blade length hair that transforms into a butt length rattail when he gets into his Nightwing costume - but only his new one

The entirely new Nightwing costume Alfred got made in one day, instead of upgrading the old one

the fact that its 1996 but Dick still dresses like its the 70s. I’m not being sarcastic here, that's extremely in character and I love it

The idea of Dick not fighting as well when not in costume, which is also talked about a lot with Azrael later on in the 90s. There’s something profound here about the way clothing changes the way you think and I’m gonna get at it at some point.

[jaika2099]

Batman and Harley Quinn's Nightwing's hairstyle is one of the worst. It's worse than his rattail and 90s poofy hair in my opinion.

[seekingxanadu]

Was there a betting pool among the thugs, do you think? Who gets to chop off Nightwing's rattail?

i still laugh at that part in nightwing vol 2. when that random thug chopped off dick’s rat tail and dick was like “i spent time growing that!” and the thug went “it looked stupid anyway” bcos same random thug same

[kara-zor-els]

Started reading nightwing (1996) and there are so many things to unpack about that look

[kara-zor-els]

Reading the first few issues of nightwing 1996 is just like. I'm praying for the day Dick Grayson will finally go to a hairdresser.