Geoff Johns revealed as writer for DC Universe Online

by Kyle Horner Sep 15th 2008 at 5:00PM

Filed under: Super-hero, New titles, News items, DC Universe Online

How do you make DC Universe Online with Jim Lee in charge of the art direction even more exciting for comic fans? You bring Geoff Johns on as writer for the game's backstory. Geoff is the man responsible for one of the best runs on The Flash, his envisioning of Green Lantern: Rebirth and the highly engaging cooperative effort that was 52. Basically, if you're a fan of DC comics and haven't bothered with them for a while, you should really check his stuff out.

According to the Newsarama interview with Geoff, he's only responsible for writing the general state of the world, its characters and the whole story behind why all these new superheroes (that'd be us) are suddenly cropping up everywhere. Beyond that, nothing has been confirmed, although he did say it'd be possible to come back to write more stuff. In that regard, Geoff also says the game will be set more or less within the current DCU at the time of launch. Players can expect to see story arcs both new and old -- or something like them -- to eventually show their faces. If DC comics fans were only a little excited before this is a reason to start smiling, or maybe even do a fist-pump. Go ahead, we won't look.

[Thanks, Haggs]

Tags: 52, dc, dc-universe-online, dcuo, geoff-johns, green-lantern, green-lantern-rebirth, jim-lee, newsarama, soe, sony-online-entertainment, the-flash

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

007deadlysins said on 6:23PM 9-15-2008

Great news, Geoff is one on the best writers (not just comics) in the business - Green Lantern, Action Comics, and JSA are top of line. I would love to see Missions (a la Books in LOTRO) written by different DC writers come to DCUO.

JP said on 12:14PM 9-16-2008

While the writing of Johns is great, I'm still underwhelmed by the actual gameplay footage I've seen. And while a rich story is great, I can get that from reading comics. I still feel like SOE is banking on the IP draw, rather then actual gameplay. I have not played it, and my opinion is only of footage I've seen from PAX, Comicon, and the like, but it just doesn't put it over the top for me that great writers are on board. Like in comics, a great writer can get screwed by a less talented aritst. Same goes for gaming. If the vision of the writer doesn't play out well... who cares?