Greg Rucka -- out-Bendising Bendis?

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Queen & Country has plenty of suspense without Bendis's heavy-handed dialogue. Rucka is also the only American who can get away with Britishisms.

And hell, Bendis never worked with Yoshitaka Amano.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I've missed the Bendis revolution, and am only dimly aware of this Rucka fellow.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Bendis revolution is still on!

Dunno much about Rucka, but I am eagerly awaiting his run on Wolverine with Mr. Darick Robertson.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Bendis's dialogue -- but I definitely grok what you'd mean by "heavy-handedness." It's very stylized and distinct, with a particular rhythm -- there are certain characters I'm not sure I'd want him to write, because of that.

Rucka I'm not very familiar with, and all I remember of him is his Batman stuff... Is Q&C something worth picking up a single issue of to check out?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't recommend just a single issue of Q&C just because of how well structured his stories are -- one issue might be self-contained but the payoff is really 3 or 4 stories later when the consequences become fully fleshed out. The first TPB, Broken Ground, is fairly cheap and a grebt read.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 7 February 2003 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Waitwaitwait... ROBERTSON?????

Shit, I might have to start buying Wolverine.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 February 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly! I think they start sometime in May. News =====> http://www.darickr.com/news.html (& check out the Deathlok link!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 February 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven years pass...

I picked up Private Wars, one of the Queen and Country prose novels -- should I wait until I've read all the comics, and read them and the novels in publication order? Or does it not really matter much?

― WilliamC, Sunday, 6 April 2014 22:04 (eleven years ago)

Continuity matters a lot.

― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Sunday, 6 April 2014 22:07 (eleven years ago)

And publication order is ~mostly~ the right order, though Private Wars comes at a weird point in the chronology, which, judging by the Wikipedia entry, goes something like:

Comics 1-28
A Gentleman's Game
Comics 29-32
A Private War
The Last Run

There are a couple spinoff Queen & Country: Declassified minis, which are less important to the main story but give background on secondary characters. I also think they're written by people other than Rucka.

― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Sunday, 6 April 2014 22:13 (eleven years ago)

Hm, ok, I'll hold it in reserve and try to pick up all the other stuff. I've read a couple of story arcs in the comic and really liked them.

― WilliamC, Sunday, 6 April 2014 22:21 (eleven years ago)

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