[ SECRET POST #3567 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3567 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

TKJ was a mainstay for a few reasons:

1) unintentional origin of Oracle - whatever you make of this is positive or negative or w/e it did bring Babs out of comic book limbo
2) Joker-Batman relationship for casuals and entry level readers
3) The point of it all was about how Jim Gordon is still an upstanding moral citizen despite Joker's claims
4) Joker's "origin story" for lack of a better term.
5) Bolland's awesome art

The reason there's backlash against it is because, well, the shitty movie came out. Also, the whole damn story was never meant to be canon and Alan Moore was pissed about that (much like how he's pissed about Blackest Night).

Now, Babs is no longer Oracle, Joker-Batman relationship dynamic is now basically summed up in The Dark Knight, no1curr about Jim Gordon, and Joker is now known for having a no origin/multiple choice past, thus rendering he whole comic obsolete at this point.

Political correctness most definitely plays *A* role in the backlash given the incorrect information that is constantly spread about Babs being raped when it was Jim who was violated, but it's not the sole reason it's being bashed. It's mostly just a result of the comic becoming a corner stone but now has no relevance in today's continuity. Much like it was supposed to be from the start.

You wouldn't tell someone trying to get into mainline Superman to read Red Son, much like now the Killing Joke has no impact on anything outside of MAYBE Babs and they don't really talk about it anymore ever since she became the One True Batgirl.