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Old Guard
Best known for smart, hard-driving crime stories and comics, this writer helped create The Old Guard and has worked across novels, graphic storytelling, and screenwriting.
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The coach-horn : what to blow and how to blow it
by Old Guard
About the author
Greg Rucka is an American writer known for crime fiction, comics, and screenplays. He created The Old Guard with artist Leandro Fernández, and the series later became the basis for the 2020 film adaptation for which he also wrote the screenplay.
Alongside The Old Guard, he is widely recognized for work on characters and series such as Wonder Woman, Batman, and Lazarus. His career has moved comfortably between prose and comics, which helps give his stories a mix of sharp dialogue, fast pacing, and strong character work.
He was born in San Francisco and raised on California's Monterey Peninsula. His background in both novels and comics has made him a familiar name to readers who like action-driven stories with a grounded, human core.