Doomsday Clock

by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank

Récit complet . 1985, sur une autre Terre : afin de sauver son monde d'une apocalypse nucléaire, le justicier Ozymandias élabore une machination qui unit les peuples contre une menace extraterrestre fictive. 1992 : ce complot ayant été dévoilé, la révolte gronde et le monde se retrouve à nouveau au bord du chaos. Ozymandias n'a plus qu'une solution : retrouver le Docteur Manhattan, surhomme aux pouvoirs quasi divins qui a quitté la Terre des années auparavant, et peut-être même l'Univers. . Doomsday Clock rassemble dans un seul album la saga qui lève le voile sur le mystère de DC Univers Rebirth et sur les modifications apportées par le Docteur Manhattan à l'histoire de ses héros. Geoff Johns ( Green Lantern, Justice League ) y retrouve son compère de longue date Gary Frank ( Batman terre-un, Shazam ) et signe ici la première rencontre entre la Ligue de Justice et les personnages du mythique Watchmen d' Alan Moore et Dave Gibbons , dans ce qui s'inscrit comme une suite inattendue à ce chef-d'oeuvre de la bande dessinée !.

Genres: Comics

448 pages, Hardcover

First published October 23, 2020

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

[Vince Meyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Certaines pages de contexte type coupure de journaux ou extrait d'archive sont vraiment une calamité à lire....
Sans ça une excellente histoire.