Excellent. Love this story! I started to say it's the best retcon ever but I don't even know if it's a retcon or what, exactly. Best fix-up of a story I really find appalling, certainly.
Thanks for posting it.
(You're not kidding re the: Of Mice and Men story w/ reflections on Bruce's parents.)
Great read, great job by Yale and Ostrander on this--(thank you Ostrander and Yale!) thanks for the info.
Also, what a great impact Kim Yale made in a tragically short lifetime and career by making Babs Oracle. I read a piece that said that The Killing Joke (and her being unhappy--quite unhappy with it) was the reason that she and Ostrander thought this up, and thought it through. Not magic, but based on Barbara's character. (Talked about here for starters.