All his shit is overrated.
>>153528505No Man's Land was good. Everything else....uuuuuuuuuuh
>>153528505Denny? I don't like his writing much. To me, his best is the Ra's al Ghul storyline in his Bronze Age Batman (I didn't like his Joker). Don't like Green Lantern/Green Arrow, The Question, or any of the Spider-Man I've read by him. He did, however, edit what was arguably the best era of Batman, so there's that.
>>153528505He's a good example of how there's creative idea guys and creatives who are actually good writers. That being said I do enjoy his Batman just fine. It's his Question run and Gl/Ga stuff that has aged like milk
I recently re-read Shaman for the first time in years. Liked it a lot better the second time around. I should give Venom another chance since I did not care much about it either back whenever I first read it
The fact that you know him speaks volumes about his countless contemporaries who were even more forgettable.Your critique is more blowback over his reputation from older fans who rated his work highly.
>>153528750>speaks volumes about his countless contemporariesNo. This thread isn't about them.
As a writer he's a mixed bag. His The Question is all over the place; when he gets out of his own way and just tells a story it's good, sometimes excellent. Hard-Traveling Heroes is insufferable, though maybe a vital touchstone for kids reading at the time.In general I think his greatest (in both senses) impact is in his work as an editor. I don't even care for Knightfall or No Man's Land that much, but a lot of Batman's best was published under O'Neil.
>>153529457If you say he's overrated, who is he overrated compared to?David V Reed and Frank Robbins who were also writing Batman aroudn the same time as him?
>>153529775Overrated compared to his general reputation, retard.
>>153529783And that reputation was earned in comparison to his contemporaries. If anything I see him talked about much less these days than the 90's and 2000's.
>>153529896You do realize he wrote comics, right? Like his own works? You can actually see he authored stuff. That's where he got his reputation from—Question, GL, Batman, whatever else.
>>153528505Who the fuck
>>153530544Dennis O'Neil
Why people hate him now?
>>153528505>Why is he such a hack?Title of your autobiography? It's certainly bold
>>153528505Denny O'Neil was pretty weak as a writer; even when reading his stories for The Legends of the Dark Knight, I could tell he was trying his hardest to conjure Frank Miller and always falling short. To say that he was a perfect editor, too, would be giving him too much credit, as Batman '89 is what really saved his ass after he spent the first three years of the Post-Crisis chasing out writers and not having long-term plans. With Batman '89, money came in, and TLOTDK and Robin, which meant higher-quality stories, and Shadow of the Bat, which ALAN GRANT would be getting to continue his magic from Detective Comics.But it all went to shit with Knightfall. What the fuck was Denny thinking, making EVERY Batbook, even his precious TLOTDK, into a vehicle for event slop? And then it goes to shit further with other forgettable mid to late 90s Bat events.
>>153532754>But it all went to shit with Knightfall. What the fuck was Denny thinking, making EVERY Batbook, even his precious TLOTDK, into a vehicle for event slop? And then it goes to shit further with other forgettable mid to late 90s Bat events.One thing to his credit, around '95 or so Bat editorial acknowledges the frustration with crossovers and there's a year of standalone stories.By the time of NML his associate editors were basically running the show and they wanted more crossovers and high stakes.
>>153533287>By the time of NML his associate editors were basically running the show and they wanted more crossovers and high stakes.I think it goes as far back as 1996 honestly. I say this because that's when the Nightwing run starts, and it's... incredibly middling despite Dixon and Denny both working on it. Denny clearly must have realized it was time to retire, which is why he handed so much power to Scott Peterson and company. Now I know my dislike of Cassandra Cain wasn't unfounded.
>>153532555There isn't a single comic book writer that /co/ likes.
>>153534248I mean, most are incredibly inconsistent. The only writer I think who's easily the "most consistent" is either Johns or Morisson. You maybe put Marz on that list too or obviously, Moore.
>>153528505>All his shit is overrated.You're a tasteless fucking illiterate OP
His true power was as an editor
>>153534269Johns is consistently awful. Marz isn't much better.
