The next comprises spoilers from Nightwing #93, on sale now from DC.
Dick Grayson unwittingly says “I really like you” to Barbara Gordon, a longtime flame that he has alternated between courting and breaking apart with for years, in DC’s Nightwing #93.
The three little phrases slip out of Dick’s mouth accidentally as he interacts with Babs in her hideout in Gotham Metropolis. Accompanied by Dick’s three-legged rescue pooch, Haley, the 2 assess footage exhibiting Nightwing preventing off a number of masked assailants who vandalized a statue of Alfred Pennyworth that Dick erected within the middle of Blüdhaven within the earlier difficulty.
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After Barbara reveals that she’s managed to compile a database on the identities of the masked males, Dick takes a take a look at the fabric and whispers, “You are unbelievable. I really like you.” A second later, a shocked expression seems on his face and he apologizes, however not earlier than Babs grins and asks him if he actually meant to apologize for expressing his affection. Earlier than Dick can elaborate, a telephone name saves him from the awkwardness.
Moments of on-again, off-again romance between Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon have existed for almost so long as the pair have labored alongside one another as Batman’s unique companions. Initially proven as flirtatious younger adults in collection like The Batman Household — which ran within the late ’70s and confirmed Dick as a college-age crime fighter and Babs as a barely older congresswoman — the connection between the 2 has developed, explicit after Babs was shot by the Joker in 1988’s The Killing Joke and spent a few years in a wheelchair.
Dick and Babs superior their relationship over the course of author Chuck Dixon’s runs on the continuing Birds of Prey and Nightwing collection of the late ’90s and 2000s. Dick even popped the query to Babs in 2006’s Nightwing #117. Whereas Babs accepted, the pair’s engagement ended off-screen.
In present continuity, Dick and Barbara deeply take care of one another however danced round a correct relationship till Nightwing #85, the place the 2 shared a kiss whereas preventing alongside one another within the midst of the “Worry State” occasion. Since then, the pair have slowly been testing the waters of dedication — and with Babs more and more serving to Dick together with his Blüdhaven actions, there is a good likelihood that the 2 lovebirds will lastly be extra keen to specific their affection for one another in due time.
Nightwing #93 comes from author Tom Taylor, artist Bruno Redondo, inker Wade Von Grawbadger, colorist Adriano Lucas and letterer Wes Abbott, with cowl artwork by Redondo and variant cowl artwork by Jamal Campbell, Serg Acuña and Nick Robles. The problem is on sale now from DC Comics.
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