June 30, 2008 

Self-Deprecation.

Ah Batgirl, you symbol of empowerment you.

“Pretty good for a girl? That was pretty good for Rambo!”

Her quip, by the way, was not in response to someone. She just says it. I guess when Batman’s not around to be a misogynist pig, she misses it.


  • Dierna

    Wow Barbara…way to put yourself down… :P Course you now have to pay for that door you just broke…

  • http://www.ronhogan.net Ron Hogan

    Maybe we just don’t hear the irony dripping off every ostensibly self-hating wisecrack.

    Nah.

  • Naryldor

    Witness all ye, what a woman is capable of doing to get in first into Bloomingdales the starting day of the winter sale!!

  • http://www.steppenworld.com Steppen

    Never put yourself between a lady and the toilets.

  • David

    I bet that ruined her heels…

  • Michael

    Oh, Babs, Babs, Babs. Jon Ostrander really was the best thing to ever happen to you, wasn’t he?

  • onion3000

    I’ve just read the story this panel comes from, and in it, Batgirl is just Bat-shit insane. I’m sorry, but I had to say it.

  • Powers

    Not in response to someone? I read it as in response to the continual put-downs from the dynamic duo, whether they’re in hearing range or not…

  • Wolfmother

    it looks like her neck couldn’t take it anymore and wandered off before she broke down that door marv-style. or it was absorbed into her head, judging by the size of it.

    you see, am not touching that “…for a girl!” sentence, even with a 10-foot-pole. :)

  • HellRazor

    That’s the door to the kitchen. She’s going in there to make Batman and Robin a sammich.

  • Shiai

    Judging by the dead look in her eyes, Babs has drunk the Bat-Kool Aid.

  • Anderson

    Is this panel based on Alicia Silverstone´s version of Batgirl?

  • http://LOTRKing.wordpress.com LOTRKing

    Batman is MAGNETICALLY influencing her to say it.

  • MikPal

    “Judging by the dead look in her eyes, Babs has drunk the Bat-Kool Aid.”

    Oh c’mon, this is a DC comic.

    Obviously she’s not drunk, but under hypnosis.

  • Jon Snow

    Bat-girl is either very wide or that door are really small. And that is very weak wood by the way…

  • Jeff

    She better be careful going through that doorway, or she’s going to get another run in her tights… lol

  • Amake

    Can’t we complain some more about her high heels? I mean, this is at the same time the most basic, present in all incarnation feature of her uniform and the single most idiotic thing to put on a uniform.

    Also, she broke the crap out of that door. What is she thinking a “man” could have done better?

  • Maniac Doc

    Eh, that could either be read with the sarcasm or without. Out of context, it’s kind of neither here nor there.

    I’m more interested in how that door gets torn off its supports with enough force to break it, but yet there is apparently absolutely no damage to the frame, even where the hinges get torn out. That seems remarkably impossible.

  • sackett

    Can’t we complain some more about her high heels? I mean, this is at the same time the most basic, present in all incarnation feature of her uniform and the single most idiotic thing to put on a uniform.

    Give the girl a break….Look at how she worries about runs in her costume!!! What crimefighting would she get done if she was worrying about how her butt and legs looked in flat heels??