DC Comics fans know Geoff Johns quite well, and he’s quite respected in the comic book community. At his New York Comic Con Panel for Doomsday Clock and I was able to personally ask him a few questions. First, about the possibility of DC making a controversial change like Marvel did for Captain America, or any changes for that matter:
“Well, Superman’s not going to be a Nazi or anything like that.”
He added:
“It’s just a balance of the writing and look – it’s our relative balance and our subjective viewpoint of the balance that we’re doing on the characters and how they progress. You’ll see in the book and hopefully we do a good job and people enjoy it.”
I then asked him who his favorite Watchmen character was – as well as his favorite Justice League characters:
“Rorschach. Justice League it changes. Flash was always my favorite. I love Wonder Woman. I love Batman.”
Just last week Johns made some pretty interesting comments about the future of the DC Films Universe:
“Some of the movies do connect the characters together, like Justice League. But, like with Aquaman our goal is not to connect Aquaman to every movie.”
DC President added:
“Our intention, certainly, moving forward is using the continuity to help make sure nothing is diverging in a way that doesn’t make sense,” she said, “but there’s no insistence upon an overall story line or interconnectivity in that universe. Moving forward, you’ll see the DC movie universe being a universe, but one that comes from the heart of the filmmaker who’s creating them.”
I think the good thing to take away from this is that for now, it looks as though DC Comics don’t plan on making any drastic changes, or at least – not as drastic as the ones that Marvel have made.