Brokeback...for men!

Ah, the classic brokeback pose, a staple of superhero comics. One often sees models and actresses posed looking over their shoulders and twisting at their waists, so one can see their asses and at least one of their breasts in profile, but in superhero comic books, where everything is exaggerated, and the laws of anatomy, like those of physics, can be abandoned with ease, women can be posed so that the viewer sees the entirety of their asses and both of their breasts, a pose most human beings would be unable to strike unless they had their spines removed or horribly altered (hence the name).

Here, in this splash page from Forever Evil #5 (one of the five splash pages in this 21-page comic), pencil artist David Finch draws a much more rare example of a male character striking a brokeback pose. Note Power Ring's buttocks, of which the viewer can see in their entirety, and his chest, which, likewise, is facing the viewer, and is visible in its entirety.

Is this merely another example of Finch drawing the human figure extremely poorly, or is the artist consciously making a statement, trying, in his own small way, to strike a blow for equality in the way male and female characters are portrayed in superhero comics?