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" I love liminal characters. I love these characters that are outside and enter and consequently are perpetually outsiders, and who hold themselves to a higher standard. "
Greg Rucka
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" When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it. "
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" I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed. "
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" The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story. "
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" We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out. "
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" Punisher is scary; he should be scary. "
Greg Rucka
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" I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people. "
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" When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly. "
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" I do crazy amounts of research. I want this stuff to 'work,' so to speak. I need to be, at least to me, believable - because if I feel - if I cannot invest some element of verisimilitude, the reader is absolutely not going to buy in. "
Greg Rucka
Speak
Work
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" I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book. "
Greg Rucka
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Doing
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" Some of the best moments I've ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction. "
Greg Rucka
Moments
Water
Unexpected
" I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission. "
Greg Rucka
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" Fear is one of the elements of nonlethal weaponry. You're going to get hurt, and you don't want to get hurt. Pepper spray hurts. You don't want to be sprayed. That's why it's a useful deterrent as a nonlethal weapon - I'm not advocating spraying people randomly. "
Greg Rucka
Hurt
Fear
You
" I just know that if you make a Superman movie you can't take kids to, you've done something wrong. "
Greg Rucka
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You
Wrong
" We wanted to talk about death in the DC Universe, and how some people go to get a pass and come back, and some people didn't. That opened up a whole other topic about legacy. We wanted to talk about what was required to be a hero, what were the elements of true heroism? "
Greg Rucka
Hero
Legacy
People
" For every person who passes on the opportunity to write Spider-Man or Superman, I guarantee there are 5000 hungry writers who would give their eye-teeth to do it. But just because they want to do it, it doesn't mean they are capable of doing it. "
Greg Rucka
Opportunity
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" Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can. "
Greg Rucka
How
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" There is a sequence in my 'Detective Comics' run where you can't find consecutive issues by the same artist. That's intentional. That was done on purpose. "
Greg Rucka
Run
Find
Done
" I'm not a huge Lovecraft fan as far as that goes; I think there are some stories of his that are really quite wonderful, but for the most part, I have great difficulties with his prose - and the more you know about the man, the harder it is to separate him from the work in many ways. "
Greg Rucka
Think
Work
You
" The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written. "
Greg Rucka
Stories
Places
Out
" What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about. "
Greg Rucka
About
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" The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old. "
Greg Rucka
Writing
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" A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling. "
Greg Rucka
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Wandering
Character
" When I was in third grade, I would run home - literally run home from school - and if I could make it in time, I could get home and the put the TV on in time to catch the answering machine message at the start of 'The Rockford Files.' "
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Message
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Time
" Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously. "
Greg Rucka
Comics
Work
Without
" There are so many great characters because one of the things that makes Batman fantastic is that Batman is tragic. I've said this elsewhere; I've said it over and over again, but the beauty of the character is that he's a Don Quixote. "
Greg Rucka
Over
Said
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" I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers. "
Greg Rucka
People
Want
Think
" You have to accept that Batman is a fact of life in Gotham City, and on top of that, you have to accept that somehow this city manages to function with a police force that's 90% corrupt. "
Greg Rucka
Top
Accept
City
" If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character's nature fit in? How does that manifest? "
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Character
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Nature
" To me, the joy you're going to get in a 'Punisher' story is watching him punish incredibly wicked people. Now, if you can add to that an emotional content, wonderful. "
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" The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium. "
Greg Rucka
Alpha
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