Autographed Books – Shooting At Midnight

shootingmidnightWeek 3 of our look back at the novels I’ve gotten autographed over the years and we return to Greg Rucka and the fourth novel in the Atticus Kodiak series.  This was the second of the 3 Rucka novels I read in 2000 and have subsequently covered in this series.

Similar to Smoker, I can narrow down the autograph to either the San Diego Comic Con or the Chicago Comic Con, both of which I attended often in the early 2000s.  The quote that went along with the autograph this time is a Neil Young lyric, which ties in wonderfully with the plot of the book, at least as I remember it 16 years later.

Autographed Books – Smoker

smokerFor the next 12 weeks, we will take a look at the 12 hardcover books that I’ve managed to get autographed by the author over the years.  We start off today with Smoker, the third entry in Greg Rucka’s Atticus Kodiak series.  Released in 1999, I read the book in 2000, one of 3 Rucka novels I consumed that year.

I can narrow down the source of the autograph to one of two locations: San Diego Comic Con or Wizard World Chicago (nee the Chicago Comic Con).  I attended San Diego in 2000 and 2003 and all of the local cons between the books release until the late 2000s.  Rucka was a regular attendee at these cons, as he was moving back and forth between Marvel and DC at the time.