-Greg Rucka, known for his amazing work on Wonder Woman, Batwoman, Superman, and a lot of other titles sat down for an interview talking about his past work and present work Cheetah and Cheshire Rob THe Justice League. During the interview he did not mince words on how toxic DC was back in the day.
-"It was toxic when I was there and remained toxic until Dan DiDio left. It was an abusive, manipulative environment. Geoff Johns was an incredibly manipulative person to me – used me, lied to me, played me off against people. DiDio did the same thing. I was made promises repeatedly, and they were always broken. When I left in 2009, I was mentally ill. I was severely depressed, suicidal. I nearly took my life. And that's all the direct result of the way I was treated from 2006 through 2009, it was done with malice. The people I'm speaking about are bad actors. I'm not in a place where I will ever defend them again. They did what they did with malice of forethought."
-On returning to DC comics in 2016 and leaving again in 2019 "When they came to me in 2016, they were on their knees, saying, "We have a Wonder Woman movie coming out, and we've forked the character into a cocked hat" … "screwed the pooch." They said, "We need to get it fixed. We want you to do it. What will it take?" I gave them a list of demands, made them put it in writing, which is how you got me back in 2016. At the end of that first year, they said "well, we're going to do it again, we want you to keep going", and I said "this isn't sustainable. And I told you I could only do it for a year". So that's when I walked away. In 2019, I came back because Brian Bendis and Matt Fraction were coming in, and there was an intention we'd work together. And when I came in at that point, I was told, "We don't need to make guarantees because we've proven we'll do what we said." Like an idiot, I said, "Okay," and they proceeded to fork me… So when that ended, I walked away. They came back a couple of times, but I stayed away."
-On what made him return to DC comics today "June of last year at Heroes Con, an editor whose name escapes me, came by and said, "Cully [Hamner] said I should talk to you. Are you willing to talk?" I said, "I'm always willing to talk." Word got back that the door was open. So Rob Levin called me and said, "Here's what we're doing." He poured enough poison in my ear about the Cheetah and Cheshire thing to make me go, "Ooh, now I'm intrigued." We had a serious conversation. I said, "I've had bad experiences. I'm not going to do that again, I'm not going to go back to that." He said, "I know what you're talking about, and I know what you are describing, and that's not us now." When I was there, literally, editorial groups were at war with each other. That's not on the editors, that's from the top down, that's from the COO and that's from Dan. They didn't allowing it to happen, they made it happen."
-Would he ever return to DC rival, Marvel? "Marvel has never ever liked me. Every time I go to Marvel, it ends badly. They say, "Come here, come here, please, please, please." And then I inevitably get fired or lied to. Marvel is never going to call me and say, "Please come and play in our yard." And that's fine. Marvel's yard only has a few characters I'm actually interested in. DC's Yard is where my heart is. I'm not saying no, but I've never been the flavor of the month at Marvel. As I am fond of telling people, I am the only guy to take Wolverine out of the top 10. He was he was selling great until Darick Robertson and I took over. And then they were like, why is he not wearing a costume and stabbing people all the time? And I was like, that's not the story we're telling. And Marvel is like, "Oh, what have we done?" You know, when is he leaving the book?"
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