I like the new Question series

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And I'm not afraid to say it on a board where nobody knows who I am!

Seriously, though. The Mid 80s O'Neill/Cowan Question series was one of the biggest reasons I started getting interested in superheroes again after many years of not giving a shit. About 12 years ago, mostly because of Neil Gaiman, Dave Sim (God rest his brain) and Alan Moore I started getting into the idea that maybe genre comics had a purpose in the universe after all, which led me into artsy fartsy stuff like the Fanta/D&Q guys, and then a couple of years ago I got so broke I stopped buying comics period. But I've broken my long fast for this Vietch/Edwards Question thingy, and it's pretty decent, although about as unlike any previous version of the character as you could ask for.

Does the room have an opinion?

BTW, I found these boards while running a search for something entirely unrelated to this question, but it seems like a pretty lively and interesting group of posters. So I figured, wtf, may as well jump in. Hi everyone!

― Austin, Sunday, 16 January 2005 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi, Austin! I am loving the quirky dialogue and the GORGEOUS artwork. There are multiple posts on multiple threads (by me & others) also expressing glee re: this series. Has #3 come out, perchance?

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It has indeed. I'm beginning to wonder if maybe Six True Words is Lady Shiva incognito.

― Austin, Sunday, 16 January 2005 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Austin, welcome!

I'm loving this too. #3 came out a few weeks ago, and it cemented my admiration of this series. #1 was so vague and #2 moved pretty slowly as well, but with #3 we really see some cool stuff and the plot starts revealing itself like the whore of Babylon it is. Or something.
The art is beyond reproach, and I would probably keep buying it just for that alone, but luckily, the writing is going places too.

― Huk-L, Sunday, 16 January 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing that's really been kicking my ass so far has been the page-layout genius. I'm not really sure whether to credit this stuff to RV or to TE, but, frinstance in the second issue "As Above So Below" there's a big split-screen effect going on throughout ost of the pages, with the top 3/4 of each page showing Lois Lane and Jimy Olsen at the Luthor press conference, and the botto showing Question doing his weird urban shaan investigation. The upper tier of story has black gutters with panels tha bleeds off the page, whereas the bottom tier has white gutters with closed panels. It works really nicely to emphasize that the upper story (where Supey briefly appears) exists in this semi-mythical larger-than-life realm, but at the bottom things are on a more familiar big-city level, complete with claustraphobic urban architecture. The big exception to the relative naturalism of the lower tier being Question's black + yellow w/red-outline qi-vision. Events in the upper and lower tiers tie in together, too, and seem to be happening simultaneously.

It's very, VERY tightly constructed graphic storytelling, done in a way that only can be achieved by comics.

― Austin (Austin), Sunday, 16 January 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeez, I just reread that post and I feel like I should remove the kneepads and wipe my chin clean.

― Austin (Austin), Sunday, 16 January 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, it's not called "I Have a Cold, Analytical Interest In Comics", don't worry about it.

― Huk-L, Sunday, 16 January 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

that layout stuff certainly sounds like Veitch - he already did that two-tier storytelling in the solo run on Swamp Thing, and has done loads of parallel thread stuff in his own books

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 17 January 2005 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Has it worked as well in those other places as it does here?
And I love the way that Metropolis's underworld does all their business in the shitter, because Superman's prying eyes don't trump his midwest prudishness.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, I'm not reading the Question (him doing Aquaman broke my Veitch-collecting bone)

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Okay, Six true Words may not be Lady Shiva (although I'm still leaning towards she is) but Minos is DEFINITELY Van Vliet.

― Austin (Austin), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really not looking forward to this series ending.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Me either. Where else can I see this guy T.L. Edwards' nifty art?

It looks to me like he's using felt-tip pens for line drawing, which he then scans and color-manipulates on a computer. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

― Austin (Austin), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I do have a cold, analytical interest in comics, which is why all my posts are as lame as this.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 February 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

?????

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 18 June 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

"...begins with the chuff..."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 18 June 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

I've gorra CBR of that pup around somewheres.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 18 June 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

It seems like the sort of team-up only possibly in Warlock fanfic. Though, I guess, there's the D O'N connection.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 18 June 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

> I've gorra CBR of that pup around somewheres.

I'd like to see that.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 18 June 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

PS - Tommy Lee Edwards is doing the art on the JMS-scribed Marvelrific WHAT IFFY alt-verse mini the name of which I can't recall! COMING SOON!

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 18 June 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

And he's also in some sketchbook thing co-starring John Paul Leon of Winter Men http://www.boom-studios.com/sketchbooks.html

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 18 June 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Argh.
So I got a gift certificate to a major bookselling chain for the Xmas from a distant relation, and along with some highbrow Dan Fesperman & Jon Ronson stuff, I picked up D.O'N.'s newish DCU paperback, Helltown, which is actually a novelization of the first storyline from his 80s run on the Q, only um, not so much, and with added Batman content (retrofitted for Batman Begins continuity!). It's not really that bad, but it gets pretty purple, and I was kinda chuffed that it was, hey, just the same story from the 80s! And it's weird, but stuff that didn't make me blink even during my last reading of the Q series seemed SUPER ridiculous in prose. Denys Cowan's gnarly art somehow made Hub City easier to swallow.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a complete DO'N run, plus the annual(s), at my LCS for $30. Buy or bye?

― c(,,c) (Leee), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

BUY!

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

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