Batgirl (Patreon)

It should be no surprise to anyone that I was a huge fan of Batman: the Animated Series when it first aired. I already loved the two Tim Burton movies, and the show was a logical progression of those films’ dark, moody atmosphere mixed with clean designs and great animation. (At least when it was a story the animators cared about. That show was on five days a week for a while, they can’t all be Feat of Clay.)

When Batgirl made her animated debut in the 1993 two-parter, Shadow of the Bat, I was psyched. What’s not to love about Batgirl? Maybe it’s hokey of me, but I’m a sucker for heroes who become heroes because they just like to hero so damn much. Batgirl isn’t like Batman and Robin in that she wasn’t motivated by personal tragedy. She just saw a wrong she needed to right, and if some guy can swoop around Gotham in a bat suit, then dang it, why can’t she?

Plus, she’s a cute redhead. Sure, she’s cast from the same mold as literally every female character Bruce Timm has ever drawn, but why mess with a winning formula? Truly the Eiichiro Oda of the West.

Why am I drawing/talking so much about Batgirl? No reason...

(It doesn’t take the World’s Greatest Detective to know that’s a fib.)