I think I originally started about half way through it and what I read I found really interesting and quite innovative. I'm not a great fan of The Flash but as I really enjoyed Johns work on Hawkman I jumped on over to his Flash run and started reading it. Should I try volume 2? Should I check out Waid, Morrison and Millar's stuff instead? I'll think about it. Does his run get much better after the first volume, or is Flash just a character who doesn't really have any good comics about him? Ugh. Johns's Flash run is considered one of the all-time best for the character, but this was clearly a terrible book. What was even the point of that?Īnd it's insane that this was written in 2000, because I could swear that it's from the late 80's-early 90's with its ugly exaggerated artwork and pages upon pages of excruciatingly dull narration. This Flash book is one of his earliest comics, and it is just a bunch of nonsense that feels like it was written by a small child playing with his action figures, making up the story as he goes along.ĭespite the lack of any coherent plot, Johns is doing some pretentious crap here by inserting quotes from Lewis Carroll at the beginning of every issue. Wow, and I thought that present-day Johns is bad. Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan.

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