"All I’m doing in stepping away from DC is carving time to tell the stories that have been whispering in the back of my mind for years," he continued. "The last Carrie Stetko story. The next case for Dex Parios. The story of a family’s service to their country, told over two hundred years. The woman in blue. The other one, looking for a soul. The kids who take what they’re told. The killer who guards a park. The soldiers forever at war. The spy with one wound too many."

OK, the first one is WHITEOUT III.  The second one is STUMPTOWN.  The last one is QUEEN & COUNTRY.  The ones in between sound like new concepts??  Regardless, I'll follow Rucka and read it, as he's one of my favorites and an absolute top talent.

This type of 'leaving DC scene' is nothing new for Rucka.  There was one at the end of 52, when Rucka announced he was not re-upping an exclusive with DC, and coincidentally announced he was joining his buddy Ed Brubaker for a Daredevil mini at Marvel.  There was all sorts of speculation that Rucka was parting ways with DC then, too.  But about three months later, it was announced that he had three major projects under development at DC (which I suppose turned out to be the excellent FINAL CRISIS:REVELATIONS, BATWOMAN and his Firebird/Nightwing run on ACTION COMICS).      

However talented he is, and I say extremely, his writing is overly compartmentalized as 'street-level' characterization-heavy, and that tends to earn him a strong audience, albeit a niche one.  Convention dust-ups like the one we either experienced (or didn't) this weekend just lends to his charm as a moody, altruistic artist.