Geoff Johns: Difference between revisions

[[File:GeoffJohns0.jpg|frame|''"Good. Good. Everything is going as [[Magnificent Bastard|I]] have foreseen."'']]

 

 

Johns is also good friends with fellow DC exclusive writer [[Grant Morrison]], and the two of them co-wrote the ''DC Universe #0'' one-shot as well as the best-selling weekly DC series ''52''.

* ''[[Justice Society of America]]''

* ''[[The Flash]]''

* ''[[Superman]]'' and ''Action Comics''

* ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''

* ''[[Justice League of America]]''

* ''[[Infinite Crisis]]''

* ''[[Final Crisis]]: [[The Flash|Rogues Revenge]]'' and ''[[Final Crisis]]: [[Legion of Super-Heroes|Legion of Three Worlds]]''

* ''Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.''

* ''[[Hawkman]]''

* ''[[Booster Gold]]''

 

[[Marvel Comics]] properties Johns has worked on include:

* ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]''

* ''[[Fantastic Four|The Thing]]''

 

Properties that Johns co-created and co-own include:

* ''[[Titan Maximum]]''

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* [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] ([[Brian Bendis]])

* [[Arc Welding]]

* [[Bat Family Crossover]] (He's done ''Black Reign'' for the JSA family, ''Sinestro Corps'' for the Green Lantern Family, and ''New Krypton'' for the Super family.)

* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: Another common lament about Johns' work. Hey, kids, who's getting which body part ripped clean off in ''this'' issue?

** Example, long time fans were scratching their heads when Barry started talking about his father being framed for the murder of his mother as his motivation for becoming a police scientist (as he'd had a good relationship with both of his parents up to the point of his death.) This could have been handwaved as being the byproduct of any of three major cosmic retcons that had taken place since his death but it turned out it was Professor Zoom using [[Time Travel]] to screw up his past.

* [[Crisis Crossover]] (''Day of Judgement'', ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', and ''[[Blackest Night]]''.)

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: A lot of his writing, especially post-[[Infinite Crisis]].

** The twin cities of [[The Flash]] (Keystone and Central) are home to important industries--heavy industry and electronics, respectively--that probably wouldn't be available in many other places. In addition, the Flash rogues are not as deadly as, say, Batman's.

** Coast City ''was'' almost completely abandoned until recently, simply because the [[Green Lantern]] villain gallery often showed up there and ''the fact that the robot Superman had blown it up awhile back'' was hanging over their heads. In fact, the situation in Coast is a recurring motif of Johns' run.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: He brings back characters that haven't been used in over 30 years and gives them a good reason for being there.

* [[World of Symbolism]]: One of Johns's favourite techniques is to rebuild the world's around his characters so that everything and everyone, no matter how insignificant they seem, ties into a larger overarching theme. David Uzumeri at ''Comics Alliance'' has named this trope [http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/11/17/johnsian-literalism-geoff-johns/ Johnsian Literalism] in his honour.

* [[Writer Revolt]]: He absolutely refused to write the death of Dick Grayson (the original Robin and one of the longest continually published characters in comic book history). He even sacrificed Superboy, one of his favorite characters, to keep Dick alive.

 

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