by request, Huntress/Question (pt 1)

[kingrockwell]

I wanted to start my Vic Sage series with Ditko and work chronologically from there, but a request is a request, so here we go!
After all, everything needs to start somewhere, and this story is where both Huntress/Question and Rucka!Question debut, so what better to post than

Batman Chronicles #15? Following stories of Kyle Rayner and Batman, Oracle and Man-Bat, is this 10-pager set during No Man's Land. Ugly art, for that I apologize.
(imageshack keeps timing out, so i had to go with tinypic this time. can i just say i hate their interface?)

Helena's just taken down an attack on a supply van when a stranger shows up. Instinctively, she shoots. He catches her bolt.

Not one page, and he's already started the puns. Rucka wastes no time.

They deliver the morphine to the doctors. Their patient is Carlotta Espinoza, trapped under rubble for 27 hours before she was found with the bodies of her husband and six-month-old son. Helena tells herself she understands why Carlotta screams better than the doctors ever will. She tells Vic Carlotta screams for justice.
"Don't we all?" Vic asks.


(moved that first panel to fit the crop)

They confront the supply sergeant. Turns outs one of the National Guard guys is hitting the supply trucks to sell the morphine on the streets. They make short work of his gang, and Helena has him pinned.


(gasp!)


And he's gone as quickly and mysteriously as he came in. Is this the start of a bee-yoo-tee-ful friendship, or just a pain in Helea's ass? Only time (and my next post) will tell!

And here, have some JLU. There's one that has all the Vic/Helena in the series, but it's padded with a lot of just Vic (it's also the vid that inspired me to buy my JLU dvds), so here's just one scene from Question Authority.

Comments

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

Question is going to have fun getting that data back.

[currer.insanejournal.com]

Yes! Vic Sage is one of my favorites! I need to hunt down more of his comics.
Thanks for posting this. :D

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

Ugly-ish art, yes, but oh how I love that armor/costume for Helena. Minus the stupid high heels, though. I do kind of like that second panel on the last scan, though, with Hel's motion lines cutting into Vic's silhouette. Nice.

[qob.insanejournal.com]

I always hear Jeffrey Combs voice when I read the Question.

[tahngarth.insanejournal.com]

We either get Helena in a glorified bikini or Helena with huge knockers.

Sometimes we get both.

[jarodrussell.insanejournal.com]

Vic and Helena are such an excellent pair. I wish he were still around as The Question now that Birds of Prey has dissolved. There'd be a whole 'lotta potential for awesome in a series with those two.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

There's already one cryptic testosterone-powered know-it-all vigilante in this city...
1) Yes, you, Helena.

b) Wait, ONE? You and Batman make TWO, Helena. Are you sure you're qualified to be a teacher? Oh, wait. Women and math.

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

I love Rucka so much. He gave us awesome Helena, he gave my favorite version of Vic, and then he smushed them together into the BEST OTP EVER!!!

[dustbunny105.insanejournal.com]

I love that she appears to be tucking his data into the front of her costume rather than her belt in that scene. Smooth and subtle.