A biography for Greg Ruckahasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like 'The Avengers' breaking six hundred million domestic.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.”
“I write characters. Some of those characters are women.”
“Superman is precisely what we should be teaching our children. Superman inspires us to our best.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“I'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am.”
“Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.”
“Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.”
“I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed.”
“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.”
“I'm a fan of genre in the abstract, but at best, perhaps all we can really say when we talk about genre is that we're talking about an umbrella that covers a kind of story with certain elements.”
“There are still plenty of people who want to burn me at the stake for my Wonder Woman run. And I can't really blame them, you know? That was my take on the character, and when people are invested in the characters, they see them very clearly and in the way they like.”