He became the regular writer for Elektra, writing the series for over a year, and later wrote Ultimate Daredevil/Elektra, which established Elektra's origin in the Ultimate Universe. He wrote the Black Widow limited series for the Marvel Knights imprint and followed it with Black Widow: Pale Little Spider under the new MAX imprint. Not exclusive to DC at this time, Rucka also did work for Marvel Comics. Later in 2003, he wrote Batman: Death and the Maidens, which attempted to replace Ra's al Ghul with his newly revealed daughter, Nyssa Raatko. Rucka also wrote Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood, a limited series that became regarded as one of the definitive portrayals of Huntress. Together, they orchestrated a few crossovers during their runs, namely Officer Down, Bruce Wayne: Murderer? and Bruce Wayne: Fugitive. They also put the spotlight much more on the members of the Gotham City Police Department as supporting characters. He and Ed Brubaker, who became the new writer on Batman, collaborated to bring a heavy focus on crime suspense to the franchise and tone down the colorful superheroics of Batman's world.

Mainstream WorkĭC Comics was quick to hire Rucka after his success with Whiteout, and he became the new regular writer of Detective Comics in the final months of the No Man's Land story event. He would continue to produce issues of the series sporadically over the next decade. In 2001, he began the Queen & Country series, a spy thriller revolving around British espionage agent Tara Chace, and this became the most well known of his creator-owned work. Rucka's next creator-owned work was also with Oni Press. Rucka had now established himself as a rising star in the industry and was getting noticed by the big two publishers. He began in 1998 with Whiteout, a crime story set at an Antarctic base, and this was quickly followed by a sequel, Whiteout: Melt, in 1999. After writing several novels, Rucka went to Oni Press to expand his career into the comics industry. Greg Rucka began his writing career as a crime novelist with the Atticus Kodiak series of books and became very highly regarded as a writer of crime and suspense fiction.

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