So I didn’t read the first issue and I know very little about The Question, besides knowing that he views the world with a black and white morality and Rorschach is partially based on him, but it ain’t that hard to figger out what’s going on. Jeff Lemire’s sent the character on a time-travel journey and this is the Wild West portion of it.
Speaking of questions, I have one: the subtitle is “The Deaths of Vic Sage” but the main character, in this issue at least, is called Viktor Szasz, which sounds awfully close to the Batman villain who cuts notches onto his body for each victim he takes (and he’s killed a lot) - is that who this character is meant to be?? What a weird choice if it is - weird too if it isn’t for that matter!
Anyhoo, Vic is a blacksmith in a small wooden town in 1886 and the story features the usual Western tropes: racism, religiosity, injuns, and frontier justice. The gallows scene was a cliche and most of the story is as generic as could be. The priest was a somewhat interesting character, as was the injun gal, so I won’t say I was totally bored reading this, but there’s not a lot here that blew me away. I’m also not a huge fan of Denys Cowan’s usual scratchy art, or Bill Sienkiewicz’s even scratchier inks, but it’s not a bad-looking book either.
A lot of it is derivative and unremarkable, like a lot of Lemire’s work-for-hire books, but this issue at least has enough going on in it to be of surprisingly not questionable quality. The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage #2 is an intriguing, half-decent issue of an intriguing, half-decent character.
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