It seems to me that many people take it as gospel that Geoff Johns writes bad comics, just as others take it as gospel that Grant Morrison only writes great ones. In my estimation, both beliefs are mistaken. Now, if I had to choose between a Johns comic and a Morrison one, I'd pick Morrison every time. But really, Johns is doing great work these days, especially in "Green Lantern," and it seems to me that he's getting better all the time. My only serious reservation about his writing is his penchant for going for the bloody shock-effect — although sometimes it works really well. (One time when it didn't seem like a mere shock-effect/cannon-fodder moment was during "52" — one of the big twists of the series, involving Osiris, which set Black Adam back on his path to savagery. Some people were horrified by that, but I thought it was a great cliffhanger moment, and made complete sense within the context of the story.)

There is a lot of anti-Johns snark on this blog, hhich is too bad, as he’s not a bad writer, and CSBG is usually low on snark in general.

I didn't mention Johns in my piece at all.

Barely anyone here ever mentions Johns (although Hatcher recently did, but he was doing it in a similar way to you, complaining about comments about Johns from years ago).

If there was any anti-Johns snark on the blog, it was years ago (I would argue that there was not, as that suggests Johns was being singled out, and I think the blog was just snarkier period years ago), so it seems weird to still complain about it when it is not there.

A quick search of the last four months pulled up one extremely slight sarcastic comment by Burgas a few months ago in his big Flippin' Through Previews post and an actual snarky comment by Curran in early September in a post where he snarks on about a dozen other comic creators, as well - including Mike Baron, of all people.

Now if you want to complain about what the people who comment to the posts say, well, go right ahead.

Not everything Geoff Johns does is my cup of tea (I stopped reading JSA more than a year ago, but I was really enjoying his Action stuff until it became just one of a three-comics-per-month package deal a short while back). I have to say, at present, both of the monthly Green Lantern books are what I look most forward to reading (comics-wise) — and yes, that includes Morrison's Batman, which has been spotty at best. (I am enjoying Final Crisis though.)

In fact, I'd say I've been very happy with these titles ever since the Sinestro Corps break-out, which is almost two years back. I know, Johns only writes the main title and not GLCorps, but he's clearly driving the whole thing — and part of the fun is seeing how he's taking these little seeds from old GL tales from the past several decades, letting them flower into this crazy space opera. (What he's done with Moore's Ysmault stuff is probably the best example. His character arc for Laira is another good one.)

And yes, I recently read all three of Moore's GL tales in that jam-packed trade. (It even includes "The Killing Joke." Best bang for your superhero-comic buck I can think of.) The Mogo and the F-sharp tales are also tremendous. (Like others, I had to try to imagine reading it without knowing who Mogo was. It was still great.)

eh, predestination has been done better.

In a twelve page self contained story within the frame work of silver age continuity, explaining a 'mistake' and yet still being entertaining?

I’m pretty sure only the other two GL stories are collected in the Alan Moore book. I don’t have it next to me, but I know that I’ve read it a few times, but have never actually read this story. I’m pretty sure I would have if it were included.

It's in the book.

Every DCU story he wrote is in the book.

Yeah, he'd have to have actually understood the story to rip it off. He's more "Highlander 2"-ing it.

This was a good story tho a cool moment? I guess. Those are some gruesome aliens tho, eh?

So, if I may ask, what does the demon say is the greatest catastrophe endangering the Corps? With 20+ years of hindsight, it seems the demon would name the Parallax monster, or just Hal himself. Although obviously Moore wouldn't have known that, but how cool would it be to tell Abin Sur that his successor will be both the greatest Green Lantern ever, and the greatest threat to the Corps?