Daniel Warren Johnson

Our detailed Daniel Warren Johnson reading recommendations can be found on our Beyond The Panels Blog: Daniel Warren Johnson: Heart, Humanity and Heavy Metal!

This guy draws like his pencil's on fire and writes like he's lived a thousand lives. Whether it's transforming Wonder Woman into a thrash metal album cover come to life or making us cry over a monster truck, his comics blast through the page with raw intensity. In Johnson's world, cosmic battles and quiet heartbreaks hit with equal force – and that's exactly what makes his work unforgettable.

Our Top 5 Essential Daniel Warren Johnson Reads

• Extremity sets the benchmark for his storytelling approach, weaving together themes of family and survival within a brutal sci-fi landscape.
• Murder Falcon - A heavy metal anthem in comic form. Jake's life is falling apart until a buff, metal-powered falcon warrior crashes in to help him fight demons with the power of shredding. Sounds ridiculous? It is. It's also a gut-punch story about loss, grief, and the healing power of music.plifies his ability to combine seemingly disparate elements - in this case, heavy metal culture with monster-fighting action - into something uniquely compelling.
• Wonder Woman: Dead Earth - Post-apocalyptic Diana in a world gone mad. Monster trucks, mutants, and Amazonian philosophy collide in this black metal reimagining of Wonder Woman. It's loud, violent, and surprisingly profound.
  
• Do a Powerbomb represents perhaps his most perfect fusion of action and emotion, using professional wrestling as a backdrop for a deeply moving story. Wrestling meets cosmic fantasy in this love letter to family, fighting spirit, and necromantic death matches. Only Johnson could make a story this wild feel this emotionally real.
• His work on Transformers (2023) shows how he can bring fresh energy to even the most established franchises.