Geek Syndicate Issue 5 | Page 13

Geek Syndicate
INTERVIEW

Greg Rucka Talks Lady Sabre
Image © Rick Burchett

Lady Sabre is a collaboration between Rucka and artist Rick Burchett (Batman: The Brave and the Bold, She Hulk). The two have worked together on various titles (Huntress: Cry for Blood, this made us a huntress fan) and built up a friendship over the years. They decided to work on a creator-owned project that brings the fun back into sequential storytelling. It’s a roaring romp featuring pirates, soldiers, adventurers, cowboys, Indians plus FLYING SHIPS,AIRPLANES AND BLIMPS! The band of characters are varied and really well rounded. Particularly Lady Sabre and her band of pirates, it’s so refreshing to have a sassy sexy heroine WEARING CLOTHES! And also fighting on an equal par with the men. Most importantly it’s great fun to read. It made us feel

Image © Linnea Osterberg

GS: Was Lady Sabre always going to be a webcomic? GR: Yep! From the start, Rick and I conceived of it as a webseries, as opposed to a printed comic, and we tried to make our design decisions and the like with that in mind. We’ve been, frankly, incredibly uninnovative, I think, in the use of the web and our execution with that specifically in mind, but the main thrust of what we set out to do has been very much as we envisioned it. GS: Where did the idea for the comic come from? Did you and Rick work on it together? GR: Rick and I have known each other for over fifteen years, now, and despite all that, the number of collaborations we’ve shared can be counted on one hand, maybe - maybe - two. And I think we were both frustra