Except BrianWilly, who surpasses us because he said so.
Man, we could have used more you during my last 10,880 posts.
But y'know what, I should say something here: Say what you will about DC's managerial decisions being run by misspelled fortune cookies, but it is a big mistake to underestimate Geoff Johns. The man will kill you and then your family, and everyone you ever loved.
...Wait, let me retcon that.
Do any of you honestly think that Geoff Johns -- at thirty-six years young -- being DC's top writer for something like five years now just magically happened by accident, that he merely stumbled through blind luck onto his fifteen minutes of nerd-fame? That the place he's been taking the DCU towards is simply some disorganized, ramshackle direction with no real merits? People, make no mistake: the man knows
exactly what he's doing. Everything he has done ever since stepping aboard in 1999 -- everything, no exceptions, let me reiterate
absolutely everything -- has paid off and paid off big for him and for the company. Justice Society. Titans. Flash. Superman. Lanterns. You think he got to where he is by not knowing what the hell he's doing? Please, he's the writer that other writers wish they could be. He knows when to take big risks, and he also knows when to play it safe. His ideas
work. They can be completely abstract, or they can be vanilla to the point of utmost unoriginality; I mean, let's be honest here...stealing energy from the hearts of the living? Hi Geoff, every single anime ever made in the 90s called, along with the Mayans; they want you off their porch.
But. It.
Works. Every single comics forum in the universe is chattering about it, and not the bad kind of forum chatter. Johns' directions resonate with more readers than nigh every other writer at DC, maybe even Marvel. More than Grant -- who is imo a superior writer in virtually every respect -- more than Kurt Busiek, more than Waid or Giffen or others who have far more on their resume than his measly decade of experience. The idea that he's some sort of stain on DC's record -- as subjective as it appears -- is just ridiculous. Years from now, no one is going to remember Geoff Johns as anything but a massive boon to them, despite any of his debatable stumbles.