Geoffrey Johns (born January 25, 1973) is an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and film and television producer.

Johns's work on the DC Comics characters Green Lantern, Aquaman, Flash, and Superman has drawn critical acclaim.

[2] His critically acclaimed work includes Sinestro Corps War, Blackest Night, Throne of Atlantis, Flashpoint, Doomsday Clock, and Superman: Brainiac.

[5] In 2023, he co-founded the media company Ghost Machine alongside several other comic book writers and artists to publish independent work.

Johns expected to write comics "on the side", until he met David Goyer and James Robinson, who were working on JSA.

[16] He co-wrote a Beast Boy limited series with Ben Raab in 2000[17] and crafted the "Return to Krypton" story arc in the Superman titles with Pasqual Ferry in 2002.

That same year, Johns helmed the critically acclaimed[26][27][28][29][30] "Sinestro Corps War" storyline in the Green Lantern titles.

[31] He wrote the "Final Crisis" one-shot Rage of the Red Lanterns with artist Shane Davis[32] and collaborated with Gary Frank on Action Comics.

The series' first story arc was a new origin of the Justice League, which depicted the return of DC's primary superheroes to the team.

(Captain Marvel) backup feature in Justice League that began with issue #7, as well as the relaunched Aquaman and Green Lantern monthly titles.

[58][59] Johns and Gary Frank collaborated on Doomsday Clock, a limited series featuring Superman and Doctor Manhattan.

[60][61] Johns and Richard Donner co-wrote "The Car" chapter in Action Comics #1000 (June 2018) which was drawn by Olivier Coipel.

[63] At San Diego Comic-Con in 2018, DC announced a new "pop-up" imprint, The Killing Zone, to be curated by Johns.

[67] In November 2020, it was announced that Johns would launch a new creator-owned series from Image Comics titled Geiger with long-time collaborator Gary Frank, to debut in April 2021.

[68] In September 2021 it was reported that Johns and Frank would expand "The Unnamed Universe" of Geiger, starting with Junkyard Joe in October 2022.

[71][72] Johns' inaugural work for the company was writing Geiger: Ground Zero, a two-issue series drawing by Frank that serves as a prequel to their 2021 miniseries of the same name.

[71][73] Johns served as a co-producer and creative consultant for the 2011 Green Lantern film directed by Martin Campbell and starring Ryan Reynolds.

[87] In 2006, Johns co-wrote the story for the Justice League Unlimited episode "Ancient History", which starred Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Hawkman, Shadow Thief, and Vixen.

Later that year, Johns teamed up with Matthew Senreich of Robot Chicken fame to write the screenplay for a holiday family-friendly movie titled Naughty or Nice for Dimension Films.

He first contributed to the first-season episode "Muse of Fire", which served as the introduction of The Huntress, the teleplay for which he co-wrote with executive producer Marc Guggenheim from a story by co-creator Andrew Kreisberg.

[89] On July 30, 2013, it was announced at the summer TCA tour that Johns and Arrow co-creators Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti would be introducing Barry Allen in the second season of the show, with the potential of a spin-off for the character with the 20th episode acting as a backdoor pilot.

In a July 2015 interview, Johns said he was collaborating with Reginald Hudlin and Denys Cowan on a live-action digital Static series from DC and Warner Bros. Blue Ribbon division.

[94] In July 2018, Johns announced that he would be writing and executive-producing a DC Universe television series about Courtney Whitmore, a character that he created, titled Stargirl.

[99] In a 2010 interview, Johns named Steve McNiven as an artist he would like to collaborate with, J. Michael Straczynski's run on Thor as his then-favorite ongoing comic book.