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Ruse was a CrossGen comic book title. It ran for twenty-six issues from November 2001 to January 2004.
The first half 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).