Re: Babs needs to walk again
But TKJ is Oracle's origin story, simply because she became Oracle as a reaction to what happened to her then. I'm not disputing the editorial 'logic' of the time of TKJ, but it's one that simply loses its impact because other things were done with Barbara's character that made her grow after and in reaction to TKJ. Taken on its own, TKJ certainly is a fridging, but in the big picture it's more than that. It's Barbara taking a new motivation.
Barbara never got that story. Her triumphant comeback and delayed victory over her foe has yet to take place. And it's beyond long overdue. I'm pretty sure I read that story. It bothers me that I can't remember where or when. But it involves Joker trying to blow up New York and Barbara successfully manipulating him into revealing where the bomb is. I'm also pretty sure there's a panel of Babs on her wheelchair looking down at a panicked Joker.