52: Week Two

52 (Single Issues) #52

by Geoff Johns

DC Comics year long weekly epic crossover.

Genres: Dc Comics

Comic

Published May 17, 2006

About the author

Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA (co-written with David S. Goyer) for DC Comics. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time.

His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. 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. 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. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.

Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.

Reviews

[Katherine (Kat) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[DrCrower · Rating 5 out of 5]

¡Cómo he disfrutado con la relectura de "52"! Parece mentira que ya hayan pasado casi 15 años desde que Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka y Mark Waid se sacaron de la chistera una serie semanal que relataba lo acontecido durante un año en el universo DC en el que se ausentaban los 3 grandes de la editorial (Superman, Wonder Woman y Batman) y el protagonismo recaía en personajes secundarios entre los que se encontraban varios de mis preferidos. En ella The Question volvió a ser cabeza de cartel y encontró una excelente sucesora a la que los puñeteros nuevos 52 cortaron una carrera muy prometedora, Morrison se reencontró muchos años después con Animal Man (y ciertos aliens) en una entretenida aventura galáctica junto a Starfire, Lobo y Adam Strange, Ralph Dibny dejaba de ser divertido y sufría lo indecible para reunirse con su esposa muerta (genial ese planteamiento de "si vivo en un cosmos dónde resucita todo Cristo, ¿por qué se lo prohíben a Sue?"), Lex Luthor diseñaba un plan digno del mejor de los villanos y quizá mi personaje predilecto de toda la galaxia deceíta (con perdón de Ted Kord), el gran Booster Gold, encontraba su lugar en el sol y durante unos añitos viviría una época gloriosa. Ay, DC, si pudieras volver a estos días...

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

I guess that was decent. Curious to see if the Graphic Audios elevated the material.