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His influence on the DCEU seems to have been largely positive, though his insistence that the Flash movie adapt Flashpoint, which is what held that movie back for years. I think Grant Morrison mentioned it in a recent interview, though I don’t have the link offhand.

Rebirth, I think is him in classic preaching mode. Lots of “aw shucks, what happened to FUN?” That never really works as a mea culpa for the New 52’s flaws because he made the bizarre choice to bring in Watchmen and essentially blame Alan Moore. On top of that, I maintain that while the Rebirth era was good, the New 52 had finally found its footing with DCYou and didn’t actually need to be relaunched. In any case, as a one-shot Rebirth was a perfect platform for Johns to trot out his disingenuous nonsense about how it’s someone else’s fault that the comic universe which he’d steered for the past decade was dark. Just contrast Rebirth with the projects he did before and after: Darkseid War and Doomsday Clock, neither of which is all that representative of the “classic fun” Johns pretends he wants to get back to.