I spent some of yesterday educating Aura about the OMAC stuff and everything that led to Bruce's death. I found I know a lot more about some of the years I didn't read comics than I thought (basically: everything until 52, then 52 is there but fuzzy).
And I found that while all this stuff made me quit reading at the time, summarized in retrospect it's all actually good additions and makes a lot of things make more sense that needed to make more sense.
So I guess that proves one theory. Every comic story is a good one, if you spin it right - but every comic story is a bad one, if you spin it wrong. They spun it all wrong but in the end it came out right.
That's kinda cool. And I have to wonder exactly how many other 'classic' stories are exactly the same way.