Not a dream, not a hoax, not a hallucination--Batgirl turned into a serpent woman!!A villainous snake-woman named Lady Viper bit her, you see, but instead of killing her, the poison transformed her into a similar creature.
Barbara eventually realized that she could control it...
...but she was still kinda creepy:
And, well, since the transformation played havoc with her tights, she switched to:
HOT PANTS BATGIRL!!!!!Sadly, Bat-Snake-Girl found Lady Viper, beat her, got a sample of her venom, had heroic young doctor create an antidote from it, and she went back to being plain old boring Batgirl, with no hot pants. Sigh...
And what happened to Lady Viper, you may ask?
That's how pre-Crisis DC rolled, friends.Anyway, Gail Simone, if you out there, how about putting Batgirl back into hot pants?? Think about it, won't you?
From Detective Comics #517 (1982)
So...somewhere out there, is a talking Snake that hates Batgirl. I smell a multi-crossover event!
ReplyDeleteMust have been snap-crotch hot pants, otherwise they'd still get ruined.
ReplyDeleteI wonder was this where they got the (lame) idea to have Cobra Commander devolve into the form of a snake in "GI Joe: The Movie" back in 1987?
ReplyDeleteI'd forgotten all about that one. Merssssssifully.
ReplyDeleteSo, who wrote this one? And *why* is the Snake Lady a Snake Lady? Are we given a reason for her being, or is she just... there?
ReplyDeletekkhohoho--
ReplyDeleteCary Burkett wrote it.
Lady Viper's origin was given in the previous issue (which I don't have). There's a good recap & origin here at this page.