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1 review
Scott Beatty, Greg Rucka, ...

Titan Books Ltd, 2005

This is a great book to read about the early life of BATMAN.
I like this book a lot. Great depth. Great story. Great details. Fantastic suspense. A fine book to read. A great book to buy. Buy it grab and read it all. I love the ending. Beatty did a great job.

Queen & Country, Vol. 7: Operation Saddlebag

2 reviews
Greg Rucka, Mike Norton

Oni Press, 2005

Amazing!
En la línea de las sagas anteriores, con una primera historia que enlaza los acontecimientos de la pasada recopilación y el desarrollo de la Operación Saddlebag completa.

Gotham Central Vol. 5: Dead Robin (Batman)

2 reviews
Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker

DC Comics, 2007

The series ends with a bang
"Gotham Central", volume 5, spans issues #33-40 and (sadly) ends the series with a pair of fine stories... A tepid mystery involving the murder of two Robin lookalikes serves as the backdrop for the real drama -- inside the squadroom -- and in particular the descent of Detective Renee Montoya into a spiral of ragefulness and violence. The second story arc focusses entirely on Montoya and her ...

Gotham Central Vol. 4: The Quick and the Dead (Batman)

2 reviews
Greg Rucka

DC Comics, 2006

A great read... crime fiction meets the superhero set
Another fine entry in this compelling series set in the gritty underbelly of Batman's Gotham City. The plot increasingly focusses on Det. Rene Montoya, which is fine by me (although I'm waiting for her partner, Crispus Allen, to come out of the box a bit more...) Author Greg Rucka's debt to HBO-TV's "The Wire" is increasingly obvious, but that's mighty fine source material. In this volume, ...

Perfect Dark

4 reviews
Greg Rucka

TOR (MACM), 2006

Non-Stop
Perfect Dark: The Initial Vector is a great story if you love sci-fi or the Perfect Dark games. Joanna is pitted against a fierce enemy who has skills nearly equal to hers. It is a great story of battling corporations. I reccomend it to fans or sci-fi freaks.

Checkmate Vol. 1: A King's Game (DC Comics)

5 reviews
Greg Rucka

DC Comics, 2007

Awesome Spy Series
I love this book. It's not a standard superhero read: you have to pay attention to the Checkmate roles, ranks and nomenclature at first (just like in a spy novel). Great tales, a cool alternate angle to the DC Universe. Rucka is writing a winner...

Gotham Central Vol. 3: Unresolved Targets (Batman)

1 review
Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker

DC Comics, 2006

Chandleresque, Gritty, and Beautifully Bleak
This series is so wonderfully bleak its almost uplifting. I like the idea of a side-bar story of everyone else in Gotham, and I thought I would miss the long underwear guy, but actually I got caught up in all the noir atmosphere. The 'look' of the book echoes the recent Daredevil, in that grey area between real and unreal, without being cartoony (good for some things, like the new Ghost Rider #6) ...

Elektra/Wolverine

1 review
Greg Rucka, Yoshitaka Amano

Titan Books Ltd, 2002

Ninjas and lost souls
One of the most popular characters at Marvel comics, Logan, code-named Wolverine, is a tough loner whose memories began with his physical transformation by a sinister government agency. Elektra is an unstoppable ninja [...] They come together in this story - an illustrated novella - by Greg Rucka, and in his beautiful action-packed prose they come to life. Greg Rucka excells at ...

Gotham Central

5 reviews
Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

Titan Books Ltd, 2005

An Excellent Read
One of the best-written, most consistently entertaining mainstream comics on the shelves today, Gotham Central is the four-color cousin of popular TV police procedurals like Hill Street Blues, Homicide and NYPD Blue - telling stories of the DC Universe's toughest town from the perspective of the hardened detectives of the GCPD's Major Crimes Unit. Technically a Batman-family title, it is the one ...

Wonder Woman: Mission's End

2 reviews
Greg Rucka

Bt Bound, 2006

What She Had to...
With her best friend's mind in danger and with the lives of everyone she knows and loves being threatened, Diana will make a decision that affects everything she is and costs her everything she loves. Diana's role as the premiere champion of Athena is strengthened in this finale to a stunning series. This story has it all, drama, sacrifice and feats of phenomenal power. You will see Diana ...

Whiteout Voume 2: Melt - The Definitive Edition (Whiteout (Oni Press))

1 review
Greg Rucka, Steve Lieber

Oni Press, 2007

The Definitive Edition
"Whiteout" and its sequel "Whiteout: Melt" stand out as classics of the independent comics scene from the late 1990s. The original mini-series was Greg Rucka's breakout hit, leading to his great runs on "Batman: No Man's Land," "Gotham Central," and other notable DC comics. The most notable change for this "Definitive Edition" is the new 6 x 9 inches digest size; the original series was ...

52: v. 1

22 reviews
Geoff Johns; Greg Rucka; Grant Morrison; Mark Waid

Titan Books Ltd, 2007

review for all four volumes
DC's 52 was highly ambitious, which made me more than a little nervous, since projects as big as these usually fall flat. With the big three missing, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, DC picks up some acilliary characters and kind of turns them into the modern age superheroes. Really DC is trying to kick start some other books. But they do a good job, especially since there is a book a week. ...

Batman: No Man's Land

35 reviews
Greg Rucka

Pocket Star, 2001

Greg Rucka Deliver's a Great Adaption!!!
Greg Rucka's adapted novelization of the No Man's Land comic book story arch is by far the best. Whether your a Batman fan or not, you'll still have quite a ride on a trip through a lawless Gotham city that's been hurt by an earthquake. This story works for anybody because Batman actually isn't the center of attention this time around which means you'll be bouncing back and forth evenly between ...

Whiteout Volume 1: The Definitive Edition (Whiteout (Oni Press))

1 review
Greg Rucka, Steve Lieber

Oni Press, 2007

The Definitive Edition
"Whiteout" and its sequel stand out as classics of the independent comics scene from the late 1990s. U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko is on the trail of a murderer in Antarctica...and since it's a mystery, that's really all you need to know to start out. The original mini-series was Greg Rucka's breakout hit, leading to his great runs on "Batman: No Man's Land," "Gotham Central," and other notable DC ...

Shooting at Midnight

27 reviews
Greg Rucka

Piatkus Books, 2000

Crime
A little off the beaten path of a typical Greg Rucka book, but worth reading. I enjoyed it.

Queen & Country, Vol. 5: Operation Stormfront

1 review
Greg Rucka, Carla Speed McNeil

Oni Press, 2004

Visceral action in Greg Rucka's spy-thriller classic
"Operation Storm Front" is the fifth volume of Greg Rucka's "Queen And Country" series, reprinting issues #16-20 of this increasingly dense, gripping spy-thriller saga. This is the best storyline to date, a tense, grippingly violent story that revolves around a kidnapping in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. British secret agent Tara Chase is sent in to settle old scores, but finds herself ...

52, Vol. 1

22 reviews
Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, ...

DC Comics, 2007

review for all four volumes
DC's 52 was highly ambitious, which made me more than a little nervous, since projects as big as these usually fall flat. With the big three missing, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, DC picks up some acilliary characters and kind of turns them into the modern age superheroes. Really DC is trying to kick start some other books. But they do a good job, especially since there is a book a week. ...

Critical Space

23 reviews
Greg Rucka

Bantam, 2001

My first Rucka book and the very best
When people ask me to recommend a book, this one is near the top of the list, in the company of authors such as Michael Crichton, Jack London (The Sea Wolf), Tolkien, and Catherine Coulter. (An esoteric list, yes. I read a lot, but I don't write about books I don't like.) This was the first book by Greg Rucka that I picked up, on the recommendation of a friend, and after I finished it, I ...

Batman: No Man's Land (Batman)

63 reviews
Greg Rucka

Atria, 2000

Great final chapter of epic saga
This is a great ending to this epic tale. I highly recommend it for any Batman fans. It has a shocker of an ending and things in the Batman universe are changed forever. Great writing and art make for an enjoyable tale even though the changing focus on different characters can be a little distracting.

A Gentleman's Game

20 reviews

Bantam, 2004

Move over James Bond and make room for Tara Chase!!!
Better known for his "Atticus Kodiak" novels, Greg Rucka has started a new series about Tara Chase, a female British Secret Service agent, known as a "Minder" in the trade world of spy craft. Chase is just as tough and sexual as James Bond, but much more realistic with flaws that show up under extreme stress, not mention backstabbing by the British bureaucrats. The first book in this new ...

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