Greg Rucka
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Gregory Rucka (born November 29, 1969) is an American comic book writer and novelist. He is married to fellow comic writer Jen Van Meter. Currently, he is writing the upcoming miniseries Final Crisis: Revelations which ties into DC's major crossover event Final Crisis. He is also co-writing a Daredevil story arc with longtime collaborator Ed Brubaker for Marvel.
The majority of Rucka's work today is for DC Comics, where he is the current writer of Checkmate and was an instrumental co-writer on the weekly series 52. Gotham Central - the series Rucka co-created with fellow scribe Ed Brubaker - was recently concluded by Rucka alone after Brubaker left DC to work exclusively with Marvel. (Both Rucka and Brubaker had previously dealt with Batman and his supporting cast in Detective Comics, which Rucka wrote on a regular basis following the events of No Man's Land; he also penned the novelization of the aforementioned year-long arc.) Rucka is commonly considered to be one of the "Big Four" writers at DC Comics, along with Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison and Mark Waid. He also had long runs on the Adventures of Superman and Wonder Woman. On the DC comic 52, Johns, Morrison and Waid were his co-writers. He has also done work for Marvel Comics - including runs on Wolverine, Elektra and the mini-series Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra - and for Image Comics. The first volume of his series Queen and Country concluded in July of 2007 with issue #32. Greg has stated that another volume will resume sometime in 2009.
Rucka's work, particularly in comics, has attracted critical and fan acclaim, and also won several awards, including Eisner Awards for the "Half a Life" storyline in Gotham Central (which also won a Harvey Award), Whiteout: Melt and Queen and Country. He was also featured in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation comic book miniseries "Dying in the Gutters" as the accidental killer of a comics gossip columnist while intending to kill Joe Quesada over his perceived role in the ending of Gotham Central.
Rucka also wrote the screenplay for the "Crossfire" segment in the direct-to-DVD anime Batman: Gotham Knight in which Crispus Allen, a character he created, also appears.