At the age of 81. Damn, he was the guy who brought Batman out of the "camp" era and made him scary again.
Shit. To non-comics readers, he was pretty important. His run on Batman with Neil Adams as the artist paved the way for Frank Miller's which paved the way for Batman as we know him in movies and TV today. He wrote for Batman well after the Neil Adams era, even being the one who killed off Jason Todd as Robin. And he did the Knightfall arc which introduced Azrael-Batman, and Bane. A lot of that material was lifted for "The Dark Knight Rises". He did the famous Superman meets Muhammad Ali issue in the 70's. His run on Green Lantern/Green Arrow made them the Archie and Michael (All In The Family) of comics. His one colossal misstep, de-powering Wonder Woman, and making her basically a feminist Black Widow. Course, the feminists pointed out "it ain't feminist to take her fucking powers away! Jackass!". He was butt-hurt at the time, but looking back decades later, he realized what an idiot he was, and apologized in every interview where it came up. He took the baton from the WWII generation to the boomer generation, and passed it to gen-x. He overlapped a lot of eras. He was living comic book history. Now he's gone. He was 81. https://www.cbr.com/denny-oneil-dies-at-81/
Aaaaaw no. One of the true greats has passed. Tonight I'll take some time to re-read "There is No Hope in Crime Alley" and "The Joker's Five Way Revenge," two of my all-time favorite Batman tales.
