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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. "
Greg Rucka
Done
Story
Own
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" Good fiction can both entertain and light up those dark corners where nice people don't want to go. "
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" For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters. "
Greg Rucka
Always
Sure
Out
" Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face. "
Greg Rucka
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Heroes
Batman
" I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed. "
Greg Rucka
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" I think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he's got too many people around him. That's what the Justice League is for, you know what I mean? "
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" All the sudden, I was part of the 'No Man's Land' thing, and there was a bundle of core writers for that, but somewhere along the line, I became the go-to guy after that initial arc. "
Greg Rucka
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" I like the 'Keystone Kops' storyline. It didn't actually go quite the way I wanted to, but it was another great way to show how different life was in these two different corners of the DCU, being on the ground in these different areas. "
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Show
Life
Way
" 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
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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
" 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. "
Greg Rucka
Remember
You
Trying
" Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another. "
Greg Rucka
Own
Up
End
" DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like 'The Avengers' breaking six hundred million domestic. "
Greg Rucka
Like
Because
Playing
" It's funny because you know the novel process: you get the drafts, you get the galley, and then you get the galley proofs. You have opportunities to change things all along. But the further along in the process you go, the more careful you have to be in making those changes, and the smaller the changes have to be. "
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Process
Change
Funny
" Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true. "
Greg Rucka
Story
True
Stay True
" I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that 'primary' take. "
Greg Rucka
Professional
Think
Better
" Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because you can do that doesn't mean you know how to write. "
Greg Rucka
Know
Writing
You
" I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk. "
Greg Rucka
Cousins
Carnival
Theme
" 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.' "
Greg Rucka
Message
Run
Time
" I tend to see - socially, I don't tend to be myself in a male role. I don't know any other way to put it. "
Greg Rucka
Way
Role
Other
" 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
" A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling. "
Greg Rucka
Who Am I
Wandering
Character
" I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting. "
Greg Rucka
Piece
Plotting
Love
" There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team. "
Greg Rucka
Team
Work
Together
" Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously. "
Greg Rucka
Comics
Work
Without
" 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
Love
Higher
Hold
" Like nightclubs and sporting events, entry into an amusement park is a permission to become someone else. We come for the experience and to relish it. "
Greg Rucka
Events
Park
Someone
" 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 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
Crazy
" If Portland can truly have a true comics show that doesn't become a media show but retains its focus on comics, I think it's going to serve the city well. If this becomes a big show, it's going to bring in a lot of money for the city. "
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Media
True
Think
" I think if you look back at some of the stuff that we broadly label as the crime 'ouvre,' there are certainly elements of the supernatural at work. "
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You
Back
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