This is a realistic, well-written graphic novel (I still call them comic books) series. Greg Rucka, who has a reputation for writing strong crime material, continues to impress here. There are no super heroics, no costumes or capes, just people doing the best they can to get by. STUMPTOWN fol...
I've been reading Rucka since he published his first novel, Keeper, and everything he does has a trademark grit and authenticity to it. Stumptown is no exception. I completed this first arc in one sitting and enjoyed it immensely. Set in Portland, it captures the feel of the city and the main p...
Freak beat builds on the story and character developments in the previous two trades and readers are rewarded with some even more amazing character development and cameos from main characters of the DCU.It took me a while to pick up the third trade, I had read/watched myself into a procedural cri...
I was as bitterly disappointed with this last volume of Gotham Central as I was in love with the first three. I felt like everything I liked about those solid, gritty police procedurals with a hint of Batman was lost in this book. One story is told from the perspective of some corrupt police. Ugh...
In Batman: No Man's Land, Greg Rucka tells the story of Gotham a ruined city filled with limitless crime and a earthquake which obliterated the city. Now the US Government has decided to break all connections with Gotham and has abandoned it, leaving the citizens of Gotham to defend and look afte...