>>125820288Different Anon, and I'd like to make the point that that up until the Silver Age, there WAS a lot of sci-fi and fantasy in the book... but anything beyond what we could do in the real world was bound to fuck people over. As you said, Hugo Strange's mad science didn't make the world a better place, it just produced fucking horrific monsters. Stories like Strange's Monster Men, or the Mad Monk (or stuff like the Puppet Master) had considerably more in common with post-O'Neil stuff like Man-Bat, the Lazarus Pits, and the newer Clayfaces ("oh no, science/magic has made my life worse!") than with the excesses of the Silver Age.
Don't get me wrong, I fucking love Adam West (the Green Arrow ep should be required viewing for wannabe Bat-fans), but it's a bit silly to say that O'Neil didn't bring a lot of things back to the roots. O'Neil had sci-fi and fantasy in his book, it was just back to the idea that that shit will go horribly wrong if you unveil it in Gotham.
