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Behind The Scenes Of Robot Chicken's DC Special 3
Jason Inman of DC All-Access talks with the folks behind the Robot Chicken DC Special 3 including Geoff Johns, Seth Green, Tom Root, Burt Ward, Tom Sheppard and Matthew Senreich This time they are focusing on the multiverse, doing their version of Crisis and we get to meet… Pez Luthor. Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 3: Magical Friendship[...]
Ten Years Later – Humanoids Republishes Geoff Johns And Butch Guice's Olympus
Ten years after it was originally published, Humanoids are republishing Geoff Johns, Kris Grimminger and Butch Guice's graphic novel Olympus This was before Johns was CCO of DC Comics. In this high-octane adventure, chaos is unleashed when a group of brash archaeology graduate students and a team of ruthless mercenaries are shipwrecked together on the legendary[...]
SDCC '15: DC – From Page to Screen
Friends and good friends alike, let me tell you a story.  As a wee lad, I had a school assignment.  The assignment: to make a diorama of my favorite book.  I chose Charlotte's Web and proceeded into the impossible task of turning dental floss into a spiderweb saying "Some Pig!"  Needless to say, I wasted[...]
SDCC '15: Geoff Johns- Spotlight + Darkseid War Info
Hello friend-o-rrito supremes! It's your old pal Will Romine here at the DC Entertainment Geoff Johns spotlight panel, moderated by Dan DiDio Who is Geoff Johns, you ask? Have you read a DC comic book in the past 5 years? Yeah, that's him He's written nearly every character in the DC Universe He's also the[...]
SDCC '15: Justice League: Gods And Men Spins Out Of The Darkseid War
In October/November, Francis Manapul and Geoff Johns reunite for a sub arc of the Darkseid War called Justice League: Gods and Men This series of one-shots focuses on five characters Metron no longer sits in the Mobius chair Now Batman sits in this most coveted of thrones and has access to absolute knowledge Flash takes[...]
SDCC '15: Is Geoff Johns Co-Writing A Batman Movie With Ben Affleck?
Deadline is reporting that the stand-alone Batman film that is rumored to be directed by Ben Affleck (and starred in), will also be co-written by the multi-talented actor/director/writer with none other than DC Entertainment's chief creative officer Geoff Johns Before comics Johns worked with film legend Richard Donner and has been closely involved with the[...]
The First Casualties Of The Darkseid War… (SPOILERS)
The story has been building since Justice League #1 by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee 40 issues later, Johns and Jason Fabok kick it off With two pages portraying the Justice League as the curious and awestruck… What's that thing they say curiosity did to the cat?And while we're at it, what's that thing they[...]
Geoff Johns Talks Batman: Earth One Volume 2
We will be seeing the release of the second volume of Batman: Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank coming out shortly The new graphic novel picks up six months after the last and there are a lot of questions about who Bruce Wayne is inside… and according to Johns when you have a[...]
DC Comics Wants You To Create A Starman Film With Geoff Johns And Machinima
Announced at New York alongside #4Hero and a second series of Justice League: Gods And Monsters. DC's Hero Project. A new TV show that sees Machinima, Blue Ribbon Content, and DC Entertainment pitting eight contestants trying to develop a live-action film based on the Starman comic. The show will see DC CCO Geoff Johns in the Donald Trump role[...]
Will No One Think About Poor Geoff Johns?
Will Geoff Johns get creator equity participation for the creation of Darkseid's Daughter? Appearing in this week's Justice League, and getting a full appearance in tomorrow's Free Comic Book Day title Divergence, her story has been behind the whole of the New 52 since Justice League #1, pursued by Darkseid across dimensions. Tomorrow you will see her birth,[...]
The First Appearance Of Darkseid's Daughter (SPOILERS)
We thought that Free Comic Book Day would see the first appearance of Darkseid's daughter, the story that Geoff Johns has been telling since Justice League #1 in 2011 Indeed, we suggested as much. We were wrong. As we discovered when reading this week's issue of Justice League #40. With a final scene that leads directly into the[...]
Bitch Planet Matches Multiversity, Convergence And Justice League For Meta Moment
Today sees the final issue of Multiversity, the latest issue of Justice League and the fourth issue of Convergence. The former shows crashing realities as Grant Morrison brings all the plots from the one shots together into one final push. With comic books as the meta-way out and potential solution to everything. And previous Crises coming to the fore as a[...]
Could John Stewart Be The Green Lantern Of Justice League?
DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns brought Hal Jordan back from the dead and established him as the central Green Lantern again He introduced Simon Baz as a replacement at one point But despite DC Comics ordering his death at one point (reversed when the writer Joshua Hale Fialkov walked in protest), and the cancellation[...]
Geoff Johns' Shazam? And Aquaman Spinoff?
It's always fun when you write one piece of gossip (such as Geoff Johns moving back from two to one monthly comic, orders from above) and have some of it confirmed (DC creators bitching amongst themselves about Geoff Johns choosing his own comics to see turned into DVT over others) and have others denied. Such that[...]
Geoff Johns – One Monthly Comic Later
After the launch of the New 52 at DC Comics, Geoff Johns, Chief Creative Officer at DC Comics working out of Burbank, wrote a number of comics for DC every month Aquaman, Justice League, Green Lantern, Forever Evil, Earth One, Superman and more. He was then told by DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson that he could[...]
Gene Luen Yang To Write Superman With John Romita Jr – The End Of The New 52
Though it's possible a new weekly season of Batman Eternal will bump those actually shipped numbers up a bit…. One of the new looking books of the block is Superman, no longer written by Geoff Johns, but by the award winning Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese, and appearing in his first DC work[...]
The Real Big Spoiler In Today's Superman #38
Those were the teased and promoted aspects of the issue that most folk were expecting. But there are a few other things about today's comic by Geoff Johns and John Romita Jr that may have far more impact Including, at the end, a not-quite-final page spoiler that you might want to save until you have read[...]
Geoff Johns Teases Mister Miracle Storyline
Geoff Johns posted the following image on his instragram feed showing a stack of Mister Miracle comics saying "reading reference tonight"… so we can expected a Mister Miracle storyline coming up soon But does this tie into his previously posted image of Big Barda and the desire to work with Ming Doyle in 2015?   Reading reference[...]
Geoff Johns Teases Batman: Earth One Volume 2
Geoff Johns has posted two new images on his Instragram account showing off pages from the upcoming Batman: Earth One Vol 2 that is due out in May The graphic novel is being drawn by Gary Frank, who did the first volume as well.     Another look at Batman: Earth One Volume 2 May, 6 2015[...]
Today's Superman Has The Stupidest Way To Harness Energy Since The Matrix
Superman #37 by Geoff Johns and John Romita Jr is published today Johns is the fellow who, in last week's Justice League #37, gave us a very common sense answer to Superman's supposed dilemma with Zod in the Man Of Steel movie I rather liked it. But all that common-sense seems to elude him today We[...]
Celebrating Ted Kord, The Blue Beetle Who Was Your Friend
DC rebooted Ted as a young grad student for the New 52 in Geoff Johns' in-continuity Forever Evil miniseries earlier this year, but it's too early to tell whether this new version of the character will live up to the character's reputation as a likeable genius who was full of hope, even if he didn't[...]
Today's Justice League Comic Shows How Man Of Steel Could Have Dealt With Zod
After all "every second we take, someone could die." Writer Geoff Johns, who used to work with Richard Donner, fixing Man Of Steel for you, today. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently exhibiting the work of Sean Phllips. We all saw Zack Snyder's Man Of Steel No, we all did Yes, even you. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OToWrnzK3gw[/youtube] And there's that scene[...]
New Teen Titans #42
With the news of who CBS is looking at for Supergirl and that SyFy is working on a Pre-Superman series called Krypton… we might forget about TNT's deal for a Teen Titan series, but thanks to Geoff Johns we won't In a reply on his Twitter page, Johns updates the status of the series by saying[...]