If the Waynes are killed when Bruce is eight-years-old, that places the tragedy in 1991, which is indeed “31 years ago” as JSA #1 tells us. It means that Bruce is born in 1982, which is not far off from what we already currently have, so that’s fine. For instance, is this future even set in canon? For that matter, are any futures? We’ll get into that in a soon-to-come follow-up blog post, but for now, I’ll leave the conversation with the fact that Johns posits a world where Helena is born “one year from now.” Are other comic book writers going to be committing to this scenario in a mere year’s time?īut let’s move on from the future and focus on what’s more important-the idea of Batman debuting thirteen years ago. There are a lot of ways to view the future when it comes to comic books. Does it leave any place at all for Terry McGinnis? If so, all of Batman Beyond would have to go between 20, if indeed Batman is actually killed and stays dead in 2040. But with such specificity of dates and times, Johns seems to be doing… something specific. This will all be followed up in the twelve-issue JSA series, so a lot of answers could be given, and we shouldn’t take anything at face value until it ends. In roughly 2040, Batman is seemingly killed. When Helena is in elementary school (around age nine), she discovers her dad is Batman, at which time Selina forces Bruce to retire. He also co-wrote the original screenplay for The Batman with Ben Affleck, though it was abandoned in favor of a new version by Matt Reeves.JSA #1 (2023) – “Year One” is only “13 Years Ago”.Īccording to The New Golden Age and JSA #1, Batman debuts a mere thirteen years ago, while Helena is born around 2023. Johns has contributed to several superhero movie scripts but only did uncredited dialogue contributions for the re-shoots of Suicide Squad.

He is also a comic book retailer who co-owns Earth-2 Comics in Northridge, California with Carr D'Angelo and Jud Meyers. Johns has rarely worked on Batman compared the other heroes but did write both Batman: Earth One and Batman: Three Jokers. The pair also worked on highly successful Flash and Aquaman stories. He is well known his work on Green Lantern while collaborating with artist Ethan Van Sciver for DC Comics. After the commercial failure of the Justice League movie, he was given a different position more focused on television. He served as Chief Creative Officer at DC Entertainment from 2016 to 2018. Justice League Geoff Johns is an American writer and producer.

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