I haven't seen any threads about it being Denny O'Neil's 80th birthday!

I haven't seen any threads about it being Denny O'Neil's 80th birthday!

Celebrate this guy whose left a huge legacy at DC, acclaimed runs on like all the major characters I believe? And Yea Forums's favorite his The Question series!

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Fuck it lets storytime the first issue of the Question. Cheers to Denny O'Neil

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tfw neil adams recoloring makes their batman stuff extremely hard to read

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Fuck yes, my favorite Bat-writer and one of the best writers of that generation in general.

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Anyone have a particular favorite Denny O'Neil series?

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O'Neil is my all-time favorite writer. What I wouldn't kill for him and Kaluta to do one more Shadow story.

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What did Ditko think about this version of The Question?

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do you guys rate his marvel work in the 80s? mainly Iron Man and Daredevil

I don't think any of us will ever really know. The man was a recluse, I doubt he ever read an issue of O'Neil's Question.

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nothing quite like pre-digital coloring . take me back any day

The art in this series is top-notch. Nothing comes close.

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I firmly believe that Denny represents a true Renaissance era of cape comic writing.
I feel like it's only now in the past few years that we've finally stopped feeling his impact on the industry. That's how influential he was, pretty much everyone in the American side of the biz was either taught by him directly or taught by someone who was taught by him (or so on).

It's really sad that a lot of the lessons he taught are being replaced with ones from TV writing.

The series itself is more Sekowsky, but his Wonder Woman revamp is something I'll always have an incredible fondness for. It's so bizarre, yet you have to admire the effort.

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People want to write movie pitches and trades rather than comic books now. It sucks.

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End of storytime.

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Damn this was great.
What other characters or influence did Denny O’Neils make?

He was the primary force in returning Batman to his dark, gothic roots, making The Joker kill again, made the JLA bicker like Marvel heroes, made Oliver Queen into a social crusader (and gave him a beard) and made Hal Jordan into the "loveable loser" he is today.

Did he ever make OC characters that are popular today?

It's funny, many of the later letters that they printed complain about Cowan's sketchy art

love denny, but fuck his editorship in charge of Batman. non stop events, never ending batfamily, and the stupidest character ever conceived: azrael. not all all stars make good coaches

Sienkiewicz cover, very reminiscent of his work on The Shadow

Dynamite had the plenty of time to hire or the other of them and never did

80s comic art is the peak in my opinion
they still had 'house style' that everyone stuck to more or less, things weren't ridiculously proportioned and the artists had studied anatomy, and the printing wasn't digitally slick

agreed. I hate the trend today, trying to make things look quasi-3d. like all the Janin work for Batman, whoever is doing Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man, and the entirety of Wonder Comics. it's just dreadful

the events would have been coming from management, every comic had events in the 1990s not just Batman
who was in the batfamily in the 90s? Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Catwoman, Huntress, and Azreal
Except Azreal all characters that had been around a while
Huntress should have been retired after Crisis on Infinite Earths, her revised backstory is basically Electra+Catwoman and is redundant

Look at the Batfamily now and how many characters there are

>today
its been going on since the 90s

yeah true. you never know where the orders are coming from. in either case, denny's editorship is my least favorite period for the mainline bat books.
>Look at the Batfamily now and how many characters there are
yeah I fucking hate the batfamily man. the 90s started this horrible trend. whatever the unit looked like in No Man's Land, that was as big as it ever should have gotten. and it made sense for that story, since it was so sprawling.

yeah I know but it's gotten even worse lately I feel. seriously pick up any issue of a Wonder Comics book.

And No Mans Land had an epic story that culminated in a new character being introduced, Cassandra Cain Batgirl who was pretty good
Now a new character is every other issue :\

Love the man. Love his work, his attitude, his wisdom, and his general nature. Question was literally life-changing for me. Plus, he did create one of my all time favorite comic book characters ever, something that I really hope I can tell him personally some day. Happy birthday!

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>Now a new character is every other issue :\
I just don't understand why they added Harper Row and Duke. what do they bring to the table besides shitty names and shittier costumes? It makes me glad at least that only Snyder and his Mynion are the only hacks who try to use these characters. if I were in charge
>Alfred (surrogate father)
>Catwoman (love interest)
>Nightwing (eldest son)
>ONE Robin (youngest son)
and that's it. Possibly a Batgirl if you want a father-daughter dynamic, but I generally hate genderbending male heroes . it's just boring . at least Huntress had this edgy mafia killer/rebellious daughter angle going for her

Thompkins for mother figure
And I always like Howard Allnut so that Batman wasn't quite the Batgod building every gadget on top of everything else he did

>Thompkins for mother figure
right. forgot about her. she was great in the no man's land era.
>Howard
honestly I thought this character was silly as fuck. the mute hunchback that builds bat-gadgets and lives in the batcave? most interesting thing he ever did for me was sell Bruce out to Hush (which didn't even make sense, but whatever). Howard is Azrael tier for me. I'd rather Lucius be his tinkerer, like in the Nolan movies

to each their own, guess I just like tasks spread out

if it makes you feel better I'd take Howard over any of the batfaggots introduced post-NML

I get the complaints about Naomi and Wonder Twins but Young Justice has great art.

yeah I forgot that one is just Gleason doing his thing. but Naomi, WT, and Dial H all have this disgusting quasi-3d thing going.

he's a very varied and well rounded reader, even put out reading lists for others. He definitely raised the bar on what solid storytelling is.

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is this from an australian comic?

Jon Stewart is his biggest character, but also did Richard Dragon and Lady Shiva. And everyone knows Lady Shiva is best girl

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it's flipped to make it readable on a computer/phone

>It's really sad that a lot of the lessons he taught are being replaced with ones from TV writing.
Everything is being stretched out for the tpb republication
There are some lessons that can be learnt from tv, look at really good serial shows like Babylon 5 that was planned from the beginning to tell a single story over the course of 5 years and it has multi-part stories but it also has single individual episode stories build up to a whole narrative

Applying that to comics sure you have some multi-issue stories, but they need to be really important, but a lot self contained issues that are part of an overall narrative

That Detective #1000 story he did was pretty depressing, when you think of how Batman was in the original story he wrote in the 70s and what happened since.

writing for the trade has been such a blight on comicdon. everytime I see a one shot on the racks I get excited. yeah they're not all good, but at least when I'm at the end it says THE END, versus a shit story which is TO BE CONTINUED for 6 more crappy months.

conan the barbarian by aaron and green lantern by morrison currently ongoing are my favorite big 2 titles because they're giving us single issue stories, with a background overarching story, but the issues themselves are satisfying on their own. how often can you say that these days?

The Doc Savage comic Dynamite did was like that, each issue was in a new decade with a self contained story. So it concluded with Doc in the 21st century.
Although there was some unnecessary narration assuring the reader it was all building up to something big.
It only went the initial 8 issues though :\

Yo, he made Jon?
Wow, thanks for my childhood Denny.
Lady Shiva was based too.

>tfw you'll never get killed and brought back to life by Lady Shiva

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Happy birthday, Mr. O'Neil. One of the greats.

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You're posting it

Because he's from an era when capeshit wasn't forcibly comfy.

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What the hell was this story? There can be many valid critisism of the Batman but this is bullshit.

Holy shit. I just got chills. I didn't realize this. Last night I had a dream I met him at a con and I couldn't stop thinking about it.

A friend of mine had him for a professor, said he was amazing. Always meant to go down to New York and see if I could meet him. Or meet him at a con and tell him how much I apreciate his work.


Oh yeah. Isn't he also the guy at Marvel who named Optimus Prime?.

Eh. Leslie has always been a bleeding heart pacifist who never liked that Bruce chose to be Batman. She's been an interesting foil.

I once became so obsessed with getting all the original Question books, I painted my room to match Vic's coat on one of the covers. Totally worth losing some of that security deposit.

You know what? I am no Chuck Dixon conservative or Ditko libertarian objectivist, but I can't quite fully agree with Denny's old hippie sensibilities. I still love his work and respect the hell out of him.

oh damn. Tok bad. I got one of those hardcovers signed by Neal. I confess I never ntoiced since I cheated by reading downloaded copies of the issues and then buying the hardcover.

happy birthday to the legend

just listened to an interview of him on Off Panel podcast. He really hates Denny O'Neil. But I can kinda see why. In the issue where Harper gets addicted to heroin O'Neil changed his script so that the issue ended with Roy punching Ollie and Ollie saying "see, the kid will be ok." like somehow hitting someone is a way out of being addicted to drugs. He never stated it, but it seems he tried to correct this the next issue with having Black Canary call him out and take Roy in