Our Top 4 Daniel Warren Johnson Picks
By Colin Vitro
With the release of Do a Powerbomb! I proclaim that March is now DWJ Month in honor of the work of Daniel Warren Johnson. Johnson is an artist/writer who tends to take a rather silly concept but injects it with so much pathos that you end up fighting back tears near the end. Enjoy one of these DWJ books this month.
Wonder Woman: Dead Earth by Daniel Warren Johnson with Mike Spicer
This Black Label project from DC has Wonder Woman waking up from a pod in a post-apocalyptic landscape with no idea how she ended up there. I’d recommend this trade to anybody that is enjoying
The Last of Us but I’ve never watched/played it so I wouldn’t really know… Unless
TLOU has giant mutated monsters and Superman, of course.
Murder Falcon by Daniel Warren Johnson with Mike Spicer
Heavy Metal and Kaiju’s collide as down-and-out Jake must bring his band back together with the help of Murder Falcon–if the nature of existence has any chance! This has a very silly premise but I swear that I was almost crying by the last page (It wasn’t because I’m a tough guy).
Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star by Daniel Warren Johnson with Mike Spicer
Everybody’s favorite horse-faced Asgardian-adjacent hero is on a journey into Hell on a mission to make himself less ugly… I can relate all too well. I believe I had this as a staff pick coinciding with the last Thor movie and while that movie was hot garbage this book is just plain hot… like Hell!
Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer
I don’t watch wrestling nor have a big interest too but my favorite thing is listening to friends and others gush about wrestling lore (seriously they are the best, find a friend and have them do an info dump about plotlines involving Vince McMahon).
DAPB!‘s Lona Steelrose is in Summer Slam to rule them all on a galactic scale with the prize being the resurrection of her mother, but in order to succeed she needs to team up with Cobrasun, the man who killed her mother in a ring. With plenty of twists and turns and heartache, by the final page you’ll be screaming “BY GAWD!”
