When I came in, it was right at the beginning of No Man’s Land, and No Man’s Land was a ground-breaking kind of event. It broke a lot of rules; it took a lot of risks, Denny fought for it to be approved by the higher powers and, eventually, we had to start planning what the Batman Universe was going to look like after No Man’s Land. And one of the things that we did within No Man’s Land was the creation of Cassandra Cain, an Asian Batgirl.
And I can tell you that upper management was not keen on the idea of a Batgirl who was not white, and Denny fought for that because we all believed in it. So, he fought for Cassandra Cain to be Batgirl, and they did it. That’s the thing, he was the person who fought for ground-breaking stories and groundbreaking ideas. From what I was told, he had to fight for No Man’s Land to happen and, once it got underway, it became such a big event for DC Comics – not only from a content standpoint but from a financial standpoint – that different writers would suddenly start writing us saying “Hey, can we reintroduce this old character to the DC Universe through No Man’s Land?” and other editorial offices said, “Could we have a crossover with No Man’s Land?”
So, he was the kind of person who had foresight, and people would get to his level of thinking later.