Greg Rucka Books in Order

This roleplaying sourcebook updates Call of Cthulhu's modern setting for the 1990s. Rucka helps sketch out the everyday world where cosmic horror can suddenly break through.

Bodyguard Atticus Kodiak is hired to protect a clinic director and her daughter as threats around an abortion conference escalate. It is a tense debut that makes every security decision feel personal.

Trying to stay out of protection work, Atticus gets pulled back in when he spots a runaway teenager in serious trouble. Saving her means facing trained pursuers, old secrets, and a promise he cannot walk away from.

Atticus takes a job protecting a key witness who could damage Big Tobacco for good. The assignment looks straightforward until an expert assassin turns the case into a deadly endurance test.

U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko investigates a murder in Antarctica, where the cold and isolation are as dangerous as the killer. The setting makes every step feel exposed and precarious.

This time the focus shifts to private investigator Bridie Logan, who risks everything to save an old friend from a drug-fueled nightmare. Atticus circles the edge of a case driven by guilt, loyalty, and mounting danger.

Carrie Stetko returns to the ice for another tense case, this time with political stakes layered on top of the danger. Antarctica remains a perfect place for fear and bad choices.

Gotham has been abandoned after catastrophe, leaving Batman and the people still inside to survive block by block. The novel leans into the city's chaos, fear, and grim improvisation.

The struggle for Gotham continues as cops, villains, civilians, and the Bat-family carve out rules inside a broken city. Survival is never simple, and every alliance feels temporary.

As Gotham's crisis nears its end, Lex Luthor's rebuilding plans and the Joker's brutality drive the stakes even higher. The city may be returning, but not gently.

Atticus is forced into his strangest job yet, protecting Drama, a legendary assassin with a long list of enemies. As they run from killers across the globe, professional distance becomes harder to keep.

Batman faces a new threat in a Gotham that is still fragile and dangerous after disaster. The story mixes detective work, city politics, and the sense that the next crisis is never far away.

The endgame of Gotham's exile pushes every faction toward a final reckoning. Batman, the GCPD, and the city's worst predators all fight to shape what comes next.

When Commissioner Gordon is gunned down, Gotham's cops and costumed heroes scramble to find the shooter. The case becomes a citywide reckoning over loyalty, anger, and what Gordon means to Gotham.

This Buffyverse anthology collects different Slayer stories from multiple writers, including Rucka. The format makes room for short bursts of action, voice, and supernatural atmosphere.

Bruce Wayne is on the run after being accused of murder, and the divide between Bruce and Batman becomes impossible to ignore. Gotham's legal system and the Bat-family both close in.

Elektra is hired to kill a girl who witnessed a murder, but the job grows more complicated when Wolverine steps in to protect her. Two dangerous loners collide over one frightened child.

Tara Chace steps into another high-risk Section operation where fieldcraft and politics are always tangled together. The mission moves fast, but the emotional wear is never far behind.

Another dangerous intelligence job puts Tara in the space between orders and reality. Rucka keeps the focus on tradecraft, pressure, and the private cost of public secrecy.

Spider-Man stumbles into the start of a dangerous case tied to the Lizard. Peter has to balance science, empathy, and survival as the story starts getting ugly fast.

The investigation widens, and Spider-Man realizes the threat is bigger than a simple supervillain fight. Each new clue pushes the case into darker and more complicated territory.

Peter is stretched between stopping immediate danger and understanding the pain behind it. The conflict with the Lizard grows more personal and more urgent at the same time.

Wonder Woman swears to protect a desperate young woman under an ancient ritual obligation, even when Batman wants the truth another way. The clash is moral first and physical second.

A damaged young woman in free fall tries to hold together a life already cracking at the seams. Rucka trades his series heroes for a darker, more intimate story of family, grief, and danger.

Tara faces another field assignment shaped as much by Whitehall as by what waits on the ground. Success here means adapting fast and trusting very little.

Section sends Tara into a mission where information is incomplete and everyone seems to be serving a second agenda. The result is cool, procedural spy fiction with a hard edge.

Tara Chace hunts the people behind a devastating attack on London and soon finds herself used as bait by the government she serves. It is a hard, sharp spy novel with no easy loyalties.

Elektra is hired to kill the young leader of a brutal guerrilla movement, only to find the mission morally harder than expected. Rucka uses the job to test exactly who she is becoming.

A fresh assignment sends Tara into another morally messy corner of British intelligence work. The pace is brisk, but the hardest battles are often over judgment and trust.

The pressure on Tara and the Section keeps building as one operation rolls into the next. This volume keeps the series' steady mix of mission suspense and institutional strain.

Elektra's life is shown from both sides, through her own eyes and those of the people caught in her orbit. It is an assassin story that cares just as much about identity as action.

A cop is murdered by Mister Freeze, and Gotham's Major Crimes Unit has to solve the case in Batman's city. It is the ideal opening statement for what *Gotham Central* does best.

Renee Montoya is publicly outed while the detectives handle one hard case after another. The volume is sharp, personal, and one of the emotional high points of the series.

In a future ruled by hypercorporations, Joanna Dark is pulled deeper into the conflict between the Carrington Institute and dataDyne. What starts as a rescue turns into a hard lesson in corporate war.

Field operations, conflicting orders, and the cost of compromise keep driving Tara's work forward. The series stays sharp by never pretending a clean mission means a clean conscience.

Tara Chace is drawn back into the field for a perilous extraction in Uzbekistan after a vicious power struggle erupts. Politics, betrayal, and a wider weapons threat make every step more dangerous.

Major Crimes keeps working under the constant pressure of Gotham's super-criminal reality. The cases stay grounded, but the emotional toll on the detectives keeps building.

A devastating act pushes Wonder Woman into one of the hardest moral decisions of her life. The story is all about trust, control, and the price of protecting others.

Joanna Dark is now a full Carrington operative, but someone is hitting Carrington sites around the world and making it look personal. Chasing the truth leads her into a deeper corporate conspiracy.

The unit faces more killers, more political stress, and more evidence that Gotham never lets its cops breathe for long. It remains one of DC's best police procedurals.

After a major DC crisis, the U.N. backs a new Checkmate to keep metahuman power in line. Infiltration, internal betrayal, and global politics make this superhero spy book move fast.

This volume continues Tara Chace's run through modern espionage at its most efficient and unsettling. Every order has a motive, and every success leaves some kind of scar.

After a deadly ambush, Atticus and Drama go underground to stay alive and strike back. Their search for answers uncovers a conspiracy powerful enough to ruin lives and bury the truth for good.

When Robin turns up dead, Gotham's detectives are forced into one of their strangest and most painful cases yet. Batman's world crashes into police work with full force.

Bruce is found with Vesper Fairchild's body and arrested for murder, setting off one of Gotham's most personal crises. The case attacks Bruce Wayne as much as it tests Batman.

As pressure mounts on the agency, Checkmate's leaders and field operatives face harder choices and sharper divisions. The series leans into the cost of trying to control a chaotic world.

Atticus Kodiak heads into the former Soviet republic of Georgia after a family massacre leaves one terrified girl alive. What he uncovers pulls him and Alena into a brutal, far-reaching web of violence and fear.

Kate Kane's Batwoman takes center stage as she battles Alice, a terrifying foe with a storybook obsession and a deadly plan for Gotham. It is stylish, personal, and immediately gripping.

The crisis around New Krypton deepens as war, divided loyalties, and planetary fear all sharpen. Superman is left trying to hold together identities that want different things.

The final stages of the New Krypton conflict push Earth and Krypton toward collapse. Large-scale battles matter, but the real tension is still about belonging and responsibility.

Supergirl's loyalties are tested as friends become entangled in larger trouble and danger keeps closing in. It is a fast superhero story with Kara caught between duty and personal ties.

Tara Chace is ready to leave the Section, but one last message sends her into Iran for a final extraction. The mission is simple on paper and anything but simple in the field.

Dex Parios takes on a case that seems odd at first and, naturally, becomes a lot messier than advertised. Portland, bad luck, and Dex's own instincts do the rest.

Former Delta Force operator Jad Bell is working security at a giant theme park when terrorists hit. With thousands at risk, including his daughter, he has to stop a nightmare built for maximum panic.

This Batman collection leans into the detective side of Gotham, where every answer opens another problem. Rucka keeps the tone grounded, pressured, and closely tied to the city around Bruce.

Still carrying the damage from the first attack, Jad Bell is thrown into a wider and even more dangerous terrorist plot. The clock is short, the enemy is prepared, and his family is never far from the line of fire.

In a near future ruled by dynastic Families, Forever Carlyle serves as her house's Lazarus, protector, enforcer, and symbol. Then one violent moment starts opening her eyes to the system she defends.

Forever is pushed outside the narrow role her Family built for her and gets a harsher view of the world below. The book deepens the class divide and the political machinery behind it.

Young Cyclops heads into space with Corsair and the Starjammers, trading school-age uncertainty for cosmic danger. It is an energetic Marvel adventure with a coming-of-age streak.

Three linked stories follow Finn, Rey, and Poe Dameron before *The Force Awakens*. Each one fills in who they were, what they wanted, and what shaped them before the film began.

The world changes overnight, and heroes find themselves in a brutal alternate reality where everything familiar has shifted. This opening volume launches one of DC's biggest modern events.

The ruling Families gather, negotiate, posture, and scheme while war edges closer. Forever moves through the tension knowing that diplomacy in this world always comes backed by force.

Set after the fall of the second Death Star, this comic follows Rebel heroes through the chaotic collapse of the Empire. Victory has come, but the war's aftermath is still dangerous and unsettled.

Between the first two Star Wars films, Han Solo and Chewbacca take on a secret mission for the Rebellion. It is a fast-moving adventure full of ambushes, quick thinking, and classic scoundrel energy.

Detective Rowan Black works homicide by day and practices witchcraft in secret. When a case drifts into the occult, the wall between her two lives starts to collapse.

With alliances fraying and enemies moving, the series leans harder into assassination, mistrust, and strategic damage. Forever remains deadly, but the world around her is getting harder to read.

In a harsh fantasy world, a mage hunter is drawn into the violent politics surrounding magic users. The story mixes sharp action with uneasy alliances and a lot of hard choices.

On occupied Jedha, Baze Malbus and Chirrut Imwe try to protect their people as the Empire tightens its grip. Saw Gerrera's arrival offers hope, but joining his fight may cost more than they expect.

A brutal selection process exposes exactly how cruel and calculating this society can be. Forever is forced to confront what Family power costs the people beneath it.

Gotham is rebuilding after *No Man's Land* when Ra's al Ghul returns with a plan that could devastate the city again. Batman has to defend a place that is still barely standing.

Andy and her immortal comrades take on a mission that exposes them to enemies old and new. The action is fierce, but the bigger threat is what happens when their secret stops being secure.

The miniseries closes with Spider-Man facing the Lizard and the full cost of the case. It is a tight finish that keeps the action grounded in human consequences.

Diana begins to suspect that key parts of her past and mission may have been manipulated. Her search for truth turns inward, and even the Lasso cannot offer easy certainty.

Rucka's Rebirth-era Wonder Woman run begins by putting truth itself in question. Diana is still a champion, but she no longer trusts the story she has been living inside.

Diana keeps pulling at the knot of lies around her life, searching for what is real and what has been imposed on her. The result is one of Rucka's most reflective Wonder Woman stories.

This retelling of Wonder Woman's origin follows Diana's first steps into the world of men. It is warm, clean, and focused on discovery, purpose, and the person behind the legend.

Rowan is no longer simply keeping her secrets. She is being hunted, tested, and pushed deeper into conflicts she cannot neatly contain, either as a cop or as a witch.

Set in the year +66, this companion volume expands the world of *Lazarus* through connected stories of ambition, selection, and survival. It sharpens the social cruelty behind the series.

The second volume keeps Batman in a city where recovery is messy and every new case seems tied to something larger. Gotham's criminals, institutions, and secrets all keep pressing in at once.

Another Portland investigation pulls Dex into trouble that mixes human need with bad decisions. She is funny, stubborn, and exactly the wrong person to let a mystery go.

Dex follows a new trail through the city's bars, debts, and lies, finding more danger than a private investigator should reasonably have to handle. That is part of the appeal.

The second collection continues blending Diana's early days with the unraveling of her present. The structure lets the origin and the crisis speak directly to each other.

Wonder Woman faces another threat working from the shadows as gods, politics, and personal conviction collide again. Rucka keeps the focus on what duty means when truth is under pressure.

The immortals are back, changed by what came before and facing a world that has only grown more dangerous. Team bonds, old wounds, and fresh enemies all drive the next stage of the story.

This comics adaptation revisits Han Solo and Chewbacca's Rebel mission with a brisk, all-ages rhythm. It keeps the fun, danger, and scrappy charm of the original adventure.

A seemingly simple case turns into another Portland headache for Dex Parios. The charm comes from her voice, her persistence, and how quickly small problems become very not small.

Diana confronts war at both the mythic and human level, pushing toward a final statement on justice, mercy, and the cycle of violence. It is a thoughtful, forceful close to the run.

Huntress steps into the spotlight in a story that emphasizes her forceful style and complicated place in Gotham's hero network. Rucka brings her street-level danger and moral stubbornness into focus.

The series digs further into Rowan's past, her power, and the forces closing around her. Police work and witchcraft are now fully entangled, and neither world feels safe.

This anniversary issue gathers a wide range of creators for new Batman stories, including a contribution from Rucka. It is a celebratory anthology with room for many shades of Gotham.

The long-building tension finally snaps into open conflict. Families move toward war, and Forever has to navigate battle lines that are both political and deeply personal.

Lois Lane investigates corruption and disinformation while being watched from all sides. Rucka makes her reporting skills, courage, and refusal to back down the center of the story.

War spreads and the damage becomes harder to contain. Forever keeps fighting, but the series makes it clear that duty and transformation can no longer live side by side forever.

A squad of elite super soldiers serving the Eternal Empress heads out on what should be a routine mission. Instead, this opening volume launches a loud, pulpy, and dangerous space-war story.

The Forged can survive the battlefield, but home brings its own threats and buried tensions. The series keeps its swagger while widening the political cracks in the empire they serve.

Another military operation pushes the Forged deeper into the violence and secrets behind imperial power. Big action carries the story, but the larger game is getting stranger and uglier.

Someone is coming after Huntress, and the trail leads straight into the violent history of her family. Helena has to untangle blood ties, vengeance, and the code she lives by.

The immortal warriors face fresh enemies and older wounds as the burden of endless life keeps catching up with them. Expect action, hard history, and a lot of earned emotional weight.

Han Solo and Chewbacca take center stage in a quick-moving Star Wars comics adventure full of pursuit, surprises, and Rebel mission trouble. It keeps the focus on chemistry, speed, and improvisation.

Cheetah and Cheshire plan a high-stakes heist aboard the Justice League's orbital headquarters. It is a villain-forward caper built on planning, attitude, and the thrill of impossible logistics.