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Denny O'Neil. That name is one of the legends of comics. He made characters, largely from DC Comics, better than what people thought of them at that time. One fo his greatest success was Batman. He defined him and what he did is still around today. O'Neil not only did Batman, he also did Superman & Wonder Woman. He did the Big Three. Which leads to this thread.
What O'Neil did to the big three, he made them grounded and real.
Batman: he got him out of the batcave, out of wayne manor, the batmobile, and had him live at a penthouse, use his company as a "batcave", and had an undercover vechile to be the batmobile.
Superman: the storyline O'Neil wrote was The Sandman Saga, the whole point was to depower Superman to the Golden Age. Basically the way he was in 1938. Sadly, unlike Batman, once he reached the Golden Age level, DC Comics stopped it from continuing and have him go back to what he was before O'Neil's story (going to space, flight, etc. y'know normal).
Wonder Woman: known as the I Ching era, he had her lose all her powers and have her learn karate. Basically his Wonder Woman (if I may say that since he created the idea) was more realistic to the point where any woman could be her and not have to dream about god given powers. However, just like Superman, O'Neil's Wonder Woman didn't last as feminist leaders hated the changes and wanted her back as she was. "...took the only powerful woman and taken her power away from her" O'Neil, to this day, agrees with that.
His work on DC"s Big Three, lets call them "O'Neil's Big Three", looking back on this, what are your thoughts, good or bad, on his changes? Would you have liked Superman back in his Golden Age version, would you have liked the idea of Bruce living in his penthouse and the manor boarded up, would you have liked a Wonder Woman who could've been like the woman next to you? Etc. etc, etc.
What O'Neil did to the big three, he made them grounded and real.
Batman: he got him out of the batcave, out of wayne manor, the batmobile, and had him live at a penthouse, use his company as a "batcave", and had an undercover vechile to be the batmobile.
Superman: the storyline O'Neil wrote was The Sandman Saga, the whole point was to depower Superman to the Golden Age. Basically the way he was in 1938. Sadly, unlike Batman, once he reached the Golden Age level, DC Comics stopped it from continuing and have him go back to what he was before O'Neil's story (going to space, flight, etc. y'know normal).
Wonder Woman: known as the I Ching era, he had her lose all her powers and have her learn karate. Basically his Wonder Woman (if I may say that since he created the idea) was more realistic to the point where any woman could be her and not have to dream about god given powers. However, just like Superman, O'Neil's Wonder Woman didn't last as feminist leaders hated the changes and wanted her back as she was. "...took the only powerful woman and taken her power away from her" O'Neil, to this day, agrees with that.
His work on DC"s Big Three, lets call them "O'Neil's Big Three", looking back on this, what are your thoughts, good or bad, on his changes? Would you have liked Superman back in his Golden Age version, would you have liked the idea of Bruce living in his penthouse and the manor boarded up, would you have liked a Wonder Woman who could've been like the woman next to you? Etc. etc, etc.
