Rucka's Batman

[Adem]

I was just wondering from when did Greg Rucka's run on Detective Comics start and when did it finish. Any information is apperciated.

[Sean Whitmore]

Rucka started on Detective Comics with #739, concluding the two-part "Jurisprudence" story (which began in Batman #572, also by Rucka) and continued until #775. :)


SEAN

[Adem]

Thanks Sean! Any issues you'd reccomend from his run?

[Sean Whitmore]

Thanks Sean! Any issues you'd reccomend from his run?


All of them, truthfully. :) But here are a few standouts:

#739-741 = The last three issues of "No Man's Land". Might be a little confusing if you haven't read the other twenty-something parts, but you get to see Two Face put Commissioner Gordon on trial, Bane versus Joker, Luthor versus Penguin, and Joker does something REALLY bad.

#747 = A humanizing Two Face story, with Detective Montoya.

#748-750 = Neat Ra's al Ghul and Talia story.

#756 = Batman teams up with Lois Lane to steal President Luthor's kryptonite ring, and Superman tries to stop them

#773-775 = It's hard to explain without giving away much of Rucka's run, but basically Batman goies up against Checkmate to save a friend he betrayed.


SEAN

[Adem]

Thanks Sean those all sound really good.

[Captain Jim]

Rucka started on Detective Comics with #739, concluding the two-part "Jurisprudence" story (which began in Batman #572, also by Rucka) and continued until #775.

Well, yes and no. His continuous run on Detective began with 739, but I'm sure he did some other NML stories in Detective before that. On the other hand, his post-NML Detective run (which is what most people would be thinking of, I'd assume) began with 742.

[Mia]

I love Rucka's run on Batman. He and Jim Starlin defined the character for me.


If you want to save some change you can get Batman:Evolution TPB. I forgot the issues they cover. But it really is good

[Adem]

Thanks Mia I was wondering if any were collected in TPBs.

[Azrael52]

I love Rucka. He and Loeb and Gail Simone are my 3 favorite writers. I also like Rucka's Atticus Kodiac novels and recommend them to anyone of his fans. No superheros, but great reads.

[Forefinger]

I enjoyed most of Rucka's Detective run, but the only thing that I didn't like was that he didn't spend much time on actually writing Batman. He wrote Batman from Sasha's POV all the time. The series became the Sasha show with Batman featured.

[Mia]

The focus on Sasha was the last part of the run. One thing I have noticed is that Rucka loves writting women. Most of the characters he writes are women. And he seems to have a...how should I put it...a fondness for lesbians. I'm sort of suprised how well he wrote Batman. But he's one of the few writers that made Batman a 3 dimensional character.

[Forefinger]

Who doesn't like lesbians? I guess I'm getting sick of the Montoya show over in Gotham Central, but hey, I enjoyed the Half a Life storyline when many others didn't.
Rucka did do a good Batman/Bruce Wayne. I'd like to see him or Brubaker on one of the Batman titles again.