What is the canon? What is canonical? What belongs in the universe? And you have to say, what is definitive? Is that difficult? And do you borrow and mix and match? And do you as writers have to adhere to a certain canonical fealty to what Kirby did? Or are you allowed a lot of leeway to change things around?

I'm going to go before Tom does because Tom has that extra added element of the film stuff.

And I'm sure that that'll have a different spice flavor on top of that.

But for me, I really took Kirby's...

That's the space that I lived in.

And I really took the issue, Mr.

Miracle No. 9, of Kirby's run and exploded that issue out.

Like crossovers and stuff like that.

Super

problematic.

And, um, You know, and I wrote an essay about it on the DC blog.

One of the big problems with the killing joke and with the fact that it seems like everybody keeps going back to that well to torture Barbara and Batgirl, you know, with that, is that it really feels like everyone uses it as a device to service the male characters.

And Barbara, even in the killing joke, doesn't have agency over her own story.

No. of the story.

She's just a MacGuffin for Jim Gordon and Batman and continuously throughout the bat universe.

Is there a chance they'd go back and let you do more?