RUSE #1 Crossgen DUAL SIGNED BY BUTCH GUICE and MIKE PERKINS Mark Waid for Sale

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RUSE #1 Crossgen DUAL SIGNED BY BUTCH GUICE and MIKE PERKINS Mark Waid:
$24.99

Original, Adult owner - Smoke free home
DUAL Signed by Jackson Butch Guice and Mike Perkins. The comic came from Butch Guice with some Birds of Prey Artwork I had purchased.
Excellent copy. See my response and offer with confidence - I pack safely and ship FAST!
About the Comic:
RUSE #1
by Mark Waid, Jackson Butch Guice, Mike Perkins, & Laura DePuy when a sudden spate of extraordinary homicides and impossible crimes threatens his city, only detective Simon Archard can separate the guilty from the innocent. Who is he? Where does he come from?
All his operatives know for certain about Archard is that he is uncannily gifted and astonishingly intelligent. In fact, one might say inhumanly so. FC, 48pg $2.95 Cover price $2.95.About Ruse
Ruse is a comic book featuring detectives Simon Archard and Emma Bishop. Originally published by CrossGen, it was revived in 2011 by Marvel Comics as part of its acquisition of CrossGen titles.
Ruse ran for twenty-six issues from November 2001 to January 2004 before it was forced to end by the bankruptcy of CrossGen. The first half of the series was written by Mark Waid and the last half by Scott Beatty; nearly the entire series featured pencils by Butch Guice. The critically acclaimed series was known for complex plots, the witty repartee between the two protagonists, and being of an unusual genre in comic books (Victorian-era detective fiction).
The series also had three spin-off issues, each called Ruse: Archard\'s Agents and all written by Chuck Dixon.
Marvel Comics revived CrossGen titles in 2011; Ruse, as a four-issue miniseries, was released in March of the same year, written by Mark Waid.
The series takes place on the planet Arcadia, primarily in the fictional town of Partington, in a Victorian-era setting tinged with elements of magic and fantasy. The most visible difference from real London is that it has living gargoyles which are regarded by the populace as creatures as commonplace as pigeons.Starring:
Simon Archard is a detective. He is a master sleuth and extremely competent. He has an eidetic memory. He is feared by the criminals of Partington, and his presence apparently keeps the crime rate low. He is close to emotionless, remaining utterly calm in situations of crisis. He is also emotionally distant from other people. His character is based on Sherlock Holmes. It is implied that Simon Archard is his world\'s Sigil Bearer, but he does not receive the mark from anyone at the beginning of the series nor does he seem to have any special powers except his mental abilities (he does however wear the Sigil mark upon his tie pin). It is possible that Simon received the mark before the series began, gets his abilities from it and is able to hide it from everyone (and wears the mark on his tie pin as respect for the powers it gives him).
Emma Bishop is Simon Archard\'s assistant. She has mysterious magical powers which she is not supposed to use. Careful to maintain her identity, she conceals her powers (though it was revealed in the last issue of the series, #26, that Archard had secretly deduced her powers almost from the very beginning). The source of her abilities was never revealed in the series, though a reader familiar with the rest of the CrossGen Universe could deduce from her powers and her orange eyes that she was one of the guides that accompanied Sigil-bearers.
Miranda Cross is the primary antagonist of the series. She initially appears to be a beautiful baroness, but it is revealed that she is evil, many centuries old, and from a different world. She also possesses magical powers, which are at least the equal of and probably stronger than those of Emma Bishop. She is possibly a demon of some sort, though the exact nature of her identity is not resolved by the end of the series. Her dialogue in Ruse #18 (April 2003) possibly hints that she is a Negation Lawbringer.