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The Question #4
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iamrmanWriter: Dennis O’Neil
Pencils: Denys Cowan
Inks: Rick Magyar
The Question must stop Reverend Hatch from sacrificing Myra's daughter.
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The Question #3
Jun. 13th, 2025 12:30 pmiamrmanWriter: Dennis O’Neil
Pencils: Denys Cowan
Inks: Rick Magyar
The Question must save a bus load of children from being blown up by terrorists.
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The Question #2
Jun. 7th, 2025 10:25 amiamrmanWriter: Dennis O’Neil
Pencils: Denys Cowan
Inks: Rick Magyar
The Question wakes up in a strange man’s bed.
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The Question #1
May. 31st, 2025 06:04 pmiamrmanWriter: Dennis O’Neil
Pencils: Denys Cowan
Inks: Rick Magyar
I first became aware of the Question thanks to the Justice League Unlimited cartoon. I gather that the comics version is quite different. Frankly, this book had me when I found out Lady Shiva was in it.
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Deathlok #4
Oct. 5th, 2024 10:09 amiamrmanDeathlok and Mechadoom converse in cyberspace as the villain monologues about his origin.
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Deathlok #1
Sep. 20th, 2024 08:22 amiamrmanWritten by Dwayne McDuffie and Gregory Wright.
Apologies for skipping to the ongoing series. I didn't have the patience to post any more of the giant-sized prestige format limited series.
Deathlok is observing the dismantling of Cybertek's assets when he uncovers one last surprise from his old employers.
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thanekosIts premise is the same as its original - inventor Curtis Metcalf, wronged by his employer Edwin Alva, seeks revenge with a technological arsenal of his own development.
Issue #1's an engaging read, in part because of its balance between action and dialogue.
There's Curtis, as he's fending off the Dakota police - and then there's Edwin Alva, talking to the Dakota police.
( The former is action, and the latter dialogue. )
Issue #1's an engaging read, in part because of its balance between action and dialogue.
There's Curtis, as he's fending off the Dakota police - and then there's Edwin Alva, talking to the Dakota police.
( The former is action, and the latter dialogue. )
The Question #1: "The Bad News"
Sep. 29th, 2018 10:46 pmalliterator
Brian Michael Bendis is soon going to have the original Question, Vic Sage, appear in Action Comics. This is after many years of him being absent after Flashpoint (aside from the "cosmic" Question, a cosmic being with literally no name or face, and "Vic Sage," an in-name-only bureaucrat who almost took over for Amanda Waller). Nobody knows quite what this Post-Rebirth Question is going to be like, so I'd like to take the time to look at the first time the Question was reinvented: in 1987, when he got his own series written by Dennis O'Neil and drawn by Denys Cowan.
"What attracted me to the Question was that after working as an editor at DC for about six months after I’d left Marvel, someone–Dick?–suggested I get back to writing. Two characters were available, Captain Atom and The Question. I’m not comfortable working with demigod heroes–really SUPER guys–which the Captain certainly was. The Question, on the other hand, was very human in scale. To sweeten the gig, I was told I could do pretty much whatever I wanted with the series–in fact, Paul Levitz advised me to push the envelope and not try to be commercial."
-- Denny O'Neil
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laughing_tree
[In the black church] pastors simply cannot risk seeming reasonable. They've got to be harsh judges in order to maintain their credibility. Even arranging a fair and balanced forum to exchange views and pray together, would seem by their uneducated and ignorant congregants as a capitulation to sin. And rather than challenge that mindset, many if not most pastors simply perpetuate it. Homosexuality is, to many black Church Folk, the greatest sin, worse even than murder. -- Christopher J. Priest
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lego_jokerThis should surprise no one who's familiar with my posts in this community, nor, really, anyone who pays attention to my username.
I. Love. The. Joker. Always have, probably always will.
Now, I'm fully aware of the "Batman/the police/some civilian should totally kill this asshole Villain Sue!" sentiment on many corners of the Internet, and I can understand them. Hell, in some ways, I emphasize with them. For the last ten or fifteen years, the man who once proudly called himself the Clown Prince of Crime has been headed down a pretty steep slide into mindless, humorless violence (interspersed with those obnoxious events that shove themselves in our faces and scream "SEE! SEE? THE JOKER IS BATMAN'S #1 VILLAIN AGAIN! HE'S NO LAUGHING MATTER NOW, BABY!"), and if anything, the DCnU and Scott Snyder have only exacerbated it.
And yet... and yet, no matter how low his low points get, they can never quite cancel out the highs. Perhaps those high points will never return, but even if that's so, he's already got plenty under his belt for us to peruse at our leisure.
Besides, I just can't hate a face like this.
( The Best of the J-Man, behind the cut! )
I. Love. The. Joker. Always have, probably always will.
Now, I'm fully aware of the "Batman/the police/some civilian should totally kill this asshole Villain Sue!" sentiment on many corners of the Internet, and I can understand them. Hell, in some ways, I emphasize with them. For the last ten or fifteen years, the man who once proudly called himself the Clown Prince of Crime has been headed down a pretty steep slide into mindless, humorless violence (interspersed with those obnoxious events that shove themselves in our faces and scream "SEE! SEE? THE JOKER IS BATMAN'S #1 VILLAIN AGAIN! HE'S NO LAUGHING MATTER NOW, BABY!"), and if anything, the DCnU and Scott Snyder have only exacerbated it.
And yet... and yet, no matter how low his low points get, they can never quite cancel out the highs. Perhaps those high points will never return, but even if that's so, he's already got plenty under his belt for us to peruse at our leisure.
Besides, I just can't hate a face like this.
( The Best of the J-Man, behind the cut! )
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The Question #12, O'Neill era
Jul. 2nd, 2012 08:59 pmriddler13Back at the golden old days of 2010, kingrockwell started a delicious series of posts about everyone's (?) favourite faceless vigilante. While reading those posts, I remembered how much I absolutely LOVED the O'Neil days back when I was a wee little lad. So I waited with eager anticipation for each and every post of that series, especially when he started to tackle the 80's incarnation of Vic Sage, a.k.a. The Question.
I don't really know what happened to our good poster, and I'm not sure if he chose to discontinue his series. However, I'll just assume they both took a temporary hiatus and, to keep the love for Vic Sage flowing (nothing personal, Renée!), I'm going to post two issues from the O'Neil run that can kind of stand-alone and will not, I hope, hamperkingrockwell's original idea of making longer posts with overarching themes.
( Sorry about the images' layout. Still getting the hang of it )
That wraps up the first issue I wanted to post about O'Neil's The Question. Not one of the strongest, but nevertheless an interesting and intriguing story. That's more than I can say about the next one, in which O'Neil manages to combine my two favourite characters and come out with a disappointing result. I'll try to post it this week.
Meanwhile, give me your thoughts on this one, ok?
kingrockwell started a delicious series of posts about everyone's (?) favourite faceless vigilante. While reading those posts, I remembered how much I absolutely LOVED the O'Neil days back when I was a wee little lad. So I waited with eager anticipation for each and every post of that series, especially when he started to tackle the 80's incarnation of Vic Sage, a.k.a. The Question.I don't really know what happened to our good poster, and I'm not sure if he chose to discontinue his series. However, I'll just assume they both took a temporary hiatus and, to keep the love for Vic Sage flowing (nothing personal, Renée!), I'm going to post two issues from the O'Neil run that can kind of stand-alone and will not, I hope, hamper
kingrockwell's original idea of making longer posts with overarching themes.( Sorry about the images' layout. Still getting the hang of it )
That wraps up the first issue I wanted to post about O'Neil's The Question. Not one of the strongest, but nevertheless an interesting and intriguing story. That's more than I can say about the next one, in which O'Neil manages to combine my two favourite characters and come out with a disappointing result. I'll try to post it this week.
Meanwhile, give me your thoughts on this one, ok?
badficwriterSo Shang Chi's dad is in the process of being brought back from the dead by the Black Dragon Society, but they need his son's blood. Two of the Society's agents, a Life Model Decoy of Nick Fury granted full memories and independence by the Zodiac Key named Max Fury and one John Steele, kidnap Agent 13, Sharon Carter, for leverage.
John Steele reminded me of an old supervillain I haven't seen in a long time, and I found confirmation in an off-hand reference to Steele's backstory. Steele was captured by Germans in WWI and studied by the man who created the Supersoldier serum, AND the father of the man who created the process that empowered Luke Cage.
4 pages from Secret Avengers 9 and 7 pages from the 22 page story from Power Man and Iron Fist 83 to show you this other guy. Bonus cameos of Misty Knight and Colleen Wing, as well as two of Luke's old girlfriends.
Warning for racism
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John Steele reminded me of an old supervillain I haven't seen in a long time, and I found confirmation in an off-hand reference to Steele's backstory. Steele was captured by Germans in WWI and studied by the man who created the Supersoldier serum, AND the father of the man who created the process that empowered Luke Cage.
4 pages from Secret Avengers 9 and 7 pages from the 22 page story from Power Man and Iron Fist 83 to show you this other guy. Bonus cameos of Misty Knight and Colleen Wing, as well as two of Luke's old girlfriends.
Warning for racism
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