Alan Moore didn't even want it to be canon.

>>81479141
Not exactly correct: being Oracle has defined Barbara Gordon for decades

It isn't even clear that she's alive at the end of Killing Joke.

>>81479141
lol nipples

>>81479141
So, before "The Killing Joke" what Batgirl story defined Barbara Gordon until this came along and changed it.

>>81479247
>>81479317
Mostly this, if she had healed up right after TKJ then it wouldn't have mattered at all. The story itself isn't that relevant (though it is good, I don't want to make it look like I'm shitting on it).

>>81479317
I miss Oracle......

>>81479141
>those wonderful toes
>pretty much a perfect reference
>they botch it in the animated adaptation

Was 10 more minutes worth of work too much to ask for?

And now it doesn't. Big deal.

>>81479209
too bad

>>81479764
doesn't it? both in comics and metatextually? even though they're ironically trying to undo it, every action seems to cement that it defines her.