Picture of the Week: Is This Gratuitous?!?

Teen Titans 43 pg 3
Originally uploaded by Heidi Meeley.

For as long as I can stand it, I am planning a new feature called "Is This Gratuitous?" This is quite simply, where I take a picture from a comic book issue and we try and decide if it is tasteful, obscene, or somewhere in between.

For this week's feature, I present to you Teen Titans #43, part one of the Titans East storyline. On what I am presuming to be page three, Raven shows a little bit of butt to the world at large. There must have been a breeze to lift her cape up, I guess.

It makes me a bit jealous, because I don't believe my hind quarters have ever looked half as fine. It also makes me a bit upset, because I know that I will never look like that, no matter how much I work out. Does this mean that Raven is just naturally thin and pert?

This isn't the worst I have seen. I have dibs else where on that. But it isn't great. Why they couldn't have her face a different angle is beyond me.

Oh yeah.

It's the marketing.

Okay, now it's your turn. Is this Gratuitous?