Geoff Johns VS Morrison

Who is the better writer Geoff Johns who writes Justice League, Green Lantern, Aguaman and who also produce Blackest Night and Flashpoint or Morrison who wrote Final Crisis?

I don't think this is the kind of vs. the Battle Forums are for. But anyway...

I like Johns better, overall. He's not perfect. Blackest Night fell kind of flat for me, I really hate Zoom, and I still don't get how "will power" is an emotion, but overall I think he's done good work. You can tell he loves the characters and the DC Universe.

Morrison has a tendency to write a lot of pseudo-poetry (best word I can think of right now). He throws out impressive phrases strung together to sound evocative, but when you actually try to figure out what he's saying, it doesn't mean anything. Of course, this kind of writing encourages people to just make up their own meaning for whatever he's trying to say, which a lot of his fans do. He's not bad at what he does, I just view it as often being a kind of literary style over substance.

One thing that I felt with him regarding 7 Soldiers and Final Crisis, is that he really has his own idea of how things "should" be regarding DCs characters (especially the New Gods, obviously), and just runs off and does whatever he feels like. Johns has expanded a lot on the mythos of GL and played around with Flash and stuff, but he feels more like he respects the old material as well and doesn't try to clash too harshly, just put a different spin or interpretation on what's gone before.

Morrison...I kinda see Johns as the Michael Bay of comics.

Morrison easy.

i'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, but Geoff by far, i rather read his work than the intricate "Inception"-like stuff Morrison comes up with

Geoff all day errday!

Neither are my favorite, but Morrison.

I like 'em both.

Morrison easily

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Geoff by far

Morrison still,Geoff will burn for what he did to Wally West and his rape of the GL mythos.

Johns tries to relive the Silver Age, Superfriends era far too much. Morrison tries to pave new ground. While both are entertaining, the fact that Morrison tries something new makes him better, in my opinion.

Morrison. I like Johns only if he's not retconning.

@ThanosIsMad said:

Johns tries to relive the Silver Age, Superfriends era far too much. Morrison tries to pave new ground. While both are entertaining, the fact that Morrison tries something new makes him better, in my opinion.

Morrison actually uses the silver age to pave new ground,he unites the goofiness and the seriousness acknowledging everything about a franchise.Johns on the other hand has a pick and choose policy.

@entropy_aegis said:

Geoff revitalized of the GL mythos.

Completely agreed :D

@k4tzm4n said:

@entropy_aegis said:

Geoff revitalized of the GL mythos.

Completely agreed :D

BURRRRRN.

Geoff Johns....RIP Wally hahaha

@entropy_aegis said:

@k4tzm4n said:

@entropy_aegis said:

Geoff revitalized of the GL mythos.

Completely agreed :D

BURRRRRN.

@k4tzm4n said:

@entropy_aegis said:

@k4tzm4n said:

@entropy_aegis said:

Geoff revitalized of the GL mythos.

Completely agreed :D

BURRRRRN.

LOL the fact Atrocitus can even harm Krona deserves a face palm.

DON'T HATE ON MY FAVORITE RED LANTERN THAT I'M A TOTAL EXPERT ON.

AND BY EXPERT I MEAN I'VE READ RED LANTERNS #1 & 2!!!!!!!!!!!

@k4tzm4n said:

DON'T HATE ON MY FAVORITE RED LANTERN THAT I'M A TOTAL EXPERT ON.

AND BY EXPERT I MEAN I'VE READ RED LANTERNS #1 & 2!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL.

Cue FTBB rant.

GO GEOFF!!!

@daredevil21134: Yes go Geoff go.

Morrison. Even though he killed Ralph Dibny...................

@Avenging-X-Bolt said:

Morrison. Even though he killed Ralph Dibny...................

That was Meltzer.

@entropy_aegis said:

@Avenging-X-Bolt said:

Morrison. Even though he killed Ralph Dibny...................

That was Meltzer.

Meltzer was Sue Dibny, as far as I know. Did he also write the story that killed Ralph Dibny?

@Avenging-X-Bolt said:

Morrison. Even though he killed Ralph Dibny...................

That was Meltzer.

@Avenging-X-Bolt said:

@entropy_aegis said:

@Avenging-X-Bolt said:

Morrison. Even though he killed Ralph Dibny...................

That was Meltzer.

no. Meltzer killed Sue in Identity Crisis.

Morrison killed Ralph off in 52

My bad.

 and his rape of the GL mythos.

@Morpheus_ said:

@entropy_aegis said:

and his rape of the GL mythos.

I was mostly bored to tears with the GL mythos prior to Johns despite having read all the stories from 1993 to 2002 or so, therefore I can't bring myself to complain about Geoff giving us better stories in the first 2-3 years of his run than we ever got in an entire decade that came earlier. Dozens upon dozens of retcons be damned.

I liked Johns stories all the way up to War of the Light,after that bewteen Blackest night and Brightest day i can't decide which is the bigger crap.

@Morpheus_ said:

@entropy_aegis said:

and his rape of the GL mythos.

I was mostly bored to tears with the GL mythos prior to Johns despite having read all the stories from 1993 to 2002 or so, therefore I can't bring myself to complain about Geoff giving us better stories in the first 2-3 years of his run than we ever got in an entire decade that came earlier. Dozens upon dozens of retcons be damned.

Agreed. Johns has done many condemnable things, but I can forgive most of his GL-related transgressions since the stories were entertaining.

@Morpheus_ said:

@entropy_aegis said:

and his rape of the GL mythos.

I was mostly bored to tears with the GL mythos prior to Johns despite having read all the stories from 1993 to 2002 or so, therefore I can't bring myself to complain about Geoff giving us better stories in the first 2-3 years of his run than we ever got in an entire decade that came earlier. Dozens upon dozens of retcons be damned.

I liked Johns stories all the way up to War of the Light,after that bewteen Blackest night and Brightest day i can't decide which is the bigger crap.

Agreed. Johns has done many condemnable things, but I can forgive most of his GL-related transgressions since the stories were entertaining.

@Morpheus_ said:

@entropy_aegis said:

@Morpheus_ said:

@entropy_aegis said:

and his rape of the GL mythos.

I was mostly bored to tears with the GL mythos prior to Johns despite having read all the stories from 1993 to 2002 or so, therefore I can't bring myself to complain about Geoff giving us better stories in the first 2-3 years of his run than we ever got in an entire decade that came earlier. Dozens upon dozens of retcons be damned.

I liked Johns stories all the way up to War of the Light,after that bewteen Blackest night and Brightest day i can't decide which is the bigger crap.

Agreed about the waulity of stories dropping in quality after Agent Orange, but WotGLs was good for the most part (even though Idefinitely had issues with the last two installments), and I never bothered with more than 3-4 issues of Brightest Day. Blackest Night had nice buildup but not a rewarding payoff. The whole thing with the Entity, Nekron and the White Lantern Corps was just off.

@CitizenBane said:

Agreed. Johns has done many condemnable things, but I can forgive most of his GL-related transgressions since the stories were entertaining.

I think that even at his personal worst his stories can be readable. I never finished reading a Johns issue thinking, "that was terrible." He surely has his weak points but I have enjoyed a large portion from his overall body of work that I have read. Likewise with Grant, albeit for different reasons.

Runs away.

@entropy_aegis said:

Geoff revitalized of the GL mythos.

Completely agreed :D

Morrison by far.

Dare i say i like both? :-)

i like both as well