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* It's commonly stated that Creator/AlanMoore's decision to paralyze Barbara Gordon in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' was made under the belief that it was to be published as a non-canonical {{Elseworld}}s story, and DC's retroactive decision to incorporate it in to canon was the final straw that convinced him to leave DC. This seems to be a misinterpretation of his stated regret for paralyzing Barbara in the first place, as nothing suggests that Moore intended for it to be an Elseworld story. Moore was in fact already on the outs with DC by 1989 [[note]]Partly due to his dispute with DC over the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' rights, and partly because he considered DC's new "Suggested For Mature Readers" label to be a revival of Comics Code-style censorship.[[/note]] and only wrote the story as a favour Brian Bolland (the comic's artist) before he moved in to self-publishing. As for the story's canonicity, DC had published a Batgirl Special the week prior to The Killing Joke which detailed her final case and retirement specifically to set up The Killing Joke, and going by Moore's own recollections of the decision, DC simply considered Batgirl an expendable character at the time and were thus not opposed to Moore's decision[[note]]Barbara never held a solo series and had stopped appearing regularly by the late eighties. [[/note]]. According to Moore, when he asked then-Batman editor Len Wein for permission to paralyze her, Wein responded with a nonplussed "Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch"
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* It's commonly stated that Creator/AlanMoore's decision to paralyze Barbara Gordon in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' was made under the belief that it was to be published as a non-canonical {{Elseworld}}s story, and DC's retroactive decision to incorporate it in to canon was the final straw that convinced him to leave DC. This seems to be a misinterpretation of his stated regret for paralyzing Barbara in the first place, as nothing suggests that Moore intended for it to be an Elseworld story. Moore was in fact already on the outs with DC by 1989 1988 [[note]]Partly due to his dispute with DC over the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' rights, and partly because he considered DC's new "Suggested For Mature Readers" label to be a revival of Comics Code-style censorship.[[/note]] and only wrote the story as a favour Brian Bolland (the comic's artist) before he moved in to self-publishing. As for the story's canonicity, DC had published a Batgirl Special the week prior to The Killing Joke which detailed her final case and retirement specifically to set up The Killing Joke, and going by Moore's own recollections of the decision, DC simply considered Batgirl an expendable character at the time and were thus not opposed to Moore's decision[[note]]Barbara never held a solo series and had stopped appearing regularly by the late eighties. [[/note]]. According to Moore, when he asked then-Batman editor Len Wein for permission to paralyze her, Wein responded with a nonplussed "Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch"
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* It's commonly stated that Creator/AlanMoore's decision to paralyze Barbara Gordon in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' was made under the belief that it was to be published as a non-canonical {{Elseworld}}s story, and DC's retroactive decision to incorporate it in to canon was the final straw that convinced him to leave DC. This seems to be a misinterpretation of his stated regret for paralyzing Barbara in the first place, as nothing suggests that Moore intended for it to be an Elseworld story. DC had in fact published a Batgirl Special the week prior to The Killing Joke which detailed her final case and retirement specifically to set up the story, and going by Moore's own recollections of the decision, DC simply considered Batgirl an expendable character at the time and were thus not opposed to Moore's decision[[note]]Barbara never held a solo series and had stopped appearing regularly by the late eighties. According to Moore, when he asked then-Batman editor Len Wein for permission to paralyze her, Wein responded with a nonplussed "Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch"[[/note]]. Moore was already on the outs with DC prior to writing the story [[note]]Partly due to his dispute with DC over the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' rights, and partly because he considered DC's new "Suggested For Mature Readers" label to be a revival of Comics Code-style censorship.[[/note]] and only wrote the story as a favor Brian Bolland (the comic's artist) before he moved in to self-publishing.
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* It's commonly stated that Creator/AlanMoore's decision to paralyze Barbara Gordon in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' was made under the belief that it was to be published as a non-canonical {{Elseworld}}s story, and DC's retroactive decision to incorporate it in to canon was the final straw that convinced him to leave DC. This seems to be a misinterpretation of his stated regret for paralyzing Barbara in the first place, as nothing suggests that Moore intended for it to be an Elseworld story. DC had in fact published a Batgirl Special the week prior to The Killing Joke which detailed her final case and retirement specifically to set up the story, and going by Moore's own recollections of the decision, DC simply considered Batgirl an expendable character at the time and were thus not opposed to Moore's decision[[note]]Barbara never held a solo series and had stopped appearing regularly by the late eighties. According to Moore, when he asked then-Batman editor Len Wein for permission to paralyze her, Wein responded with a nonplussed "Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch"[[/note]]. Moore was in fact already on the outs with DC prior to writing the story by 1989 [[note]]Partly due to his dispute with DC over the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' rights, and partly because he considered DC's new "Suggested For Mature Readers" label to be a revival of Comics Code-style censorship.[[/note]] and only wrote the story as a favor favour Brian Bolland (the comic's artist) before he moved in to self-publishing.self-publishing. As for the story's canonicity, DC had published a Batgirl Special the week prior to The Killing Joke which detailed her final case and retirement specifically to set up The Killing Joke, and going by Moore's own recollections of the decision, DC simply considered Batgirl an expendable character at the time and were thus not opposed to Moore's decision[[note]]Barbara never held a solo series and had stopped appearing regularly by the late eighties. [[/note]]. According to Moore, when he asked then-Batman editor Len Wein for permission to paralyze her, Wein responded with a nonplussed "Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch"
