Confessions of a Geoff Johns fan.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Nothing really makes my day unless its a good Geoff Johns book like when he used to do the Flash. I also enjoy his JSA run the last few years but I gotta be truthful....his Green Lantern run up til now hasn't really delivered to me like his usual work has.

I haven't got #21 yet so perhaps the Sinestro Corps arc will make me enjoy his stuff there.

But for now I'm pretty excited about Booster Gold coming out and his work in Action Comics.


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[Jack Zodiac]

His Green Lantern has been nothing but fanboyisms. And I love it, 'cause I'm a fuckin' fanboy...

His Flash was great up until it intersected with Identity Crisis and turned to shit. Before that, he had a pretty interesting build up among the book's supporting cast, which was welcome after years of development towards the character almost to the point that I don't think Wally could've gotten any more character jammed into him. And I really liked the issues focusing on the Rogues and their pasts and motivations.

And while his Justice Society relaunch started out kinda iffy with some unnecessary super-violence, his parts of "The Lightning Saga" and the last issue have been some great reads.

When Johns is writing his own stories at his own pace, he's pretty good, but when his work gets sucked into major company crossover events, they get sucky. And his major company crossover events get really sucky. Hopefully he'll keep Booster Gold fun and light-hearted. I mean, it's a goddamn time travel book! It has to be at least kind of good just on that alone.

Oh, and his Action Comics run would've been stellar if Kubert's art didn't look so damn rushed in places. And if it came out on friggin' time. I can't wait to see what he and Powell do for the next arc on Bizarro World.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

His Green Lantern has been nothing but fanboyisms. And I love it, 'cause I'm a fuckin' fanboy...

His Flash was great up until it intersected with Identity Crisis and turned to shit. Before that, he had a pretty interesting build up among the book's supporting cast, which was welcome after years of development towards the character almost to the point that I don't think Wally could've gotten any more character jammed into him. And I really liked the issues focusing on the Rogues and their pasts and motivations.

And while his Justice Society relaunch started out kinda iffy with some unnecessary super-violence, his parts of "The Lightning Saga" and the last issue have been some great reads.

When Johns is writing his own stories at his own pace, he's pretty good, but when his work gets sucked into major company crossover events, they get sucky. And his major company crossover events get really sucky. Hopefully he'll keep Booster Gold fun and light-hearted. I mean, it's a goddamn time travel book! It has to be at least kind of good just on that alone.

Oh, and his Action Comics run would've been stellar if Kubert's art didn't look so damn rushed in places. And if it came out on friggin' time. I can't wait to see what he and Powell do for the next arc on Bizarro World.

Jonah Hex will be in Booster Gold. I just hope that DC lets Johns do what he wants and don't toss UN-NAMED CROSSOVER into his path. I read online somewhere that Johns has claimed he has 18 issues of Booster Gold plotted out.

[stealthwise]

For some reason, probably because people had been suggesting it for years, I got the entire run of Flash in tpb. It's... ok, but not much more than that. I really enjoyed the Rogue-focused issues, but wasn't a huge fan of the overall plots, and found Johns's Wally to be really boring, for the most part. I agree with Jack about the crossover stuff, the series really jumped the shark at that point. The art was also distracting at times.

As for Green Lantern... I find myself enjoying it when I read it in one crunch, so the delays didn't do any favours. I dropped the book for a while to wait for the trade, but jumped back aboard to check out the big summer event with the Sinestro Corps and haven't been disappointed so far, although so far nothing's matched the fangasm that was Rebirth for me.

Everything else... is pretty much crap. Johns is either pedestrian (Hawkman, what very little I've read of JSA) or embarrassingly bad (Teen Titans, Infinite Crisis).