A mysterious ring sends The Question on a trippy journey through the past that will make him face the question: who is The Question really?
Here’s a better question: is it any good? Nooooope! Let me ask YOU a question! (Alright, I’ll stop.) But how familiar are most people with this character? Exactly. Alls I know is that this is the character Rorschach is based on and he has a bonkers black and white morality view of the world. So some notes on this dude would’ve gone a long way.
Like, maybe explain how Vic Sage came to be The Question and what exactly The Question is - what’s with the no-face and does he have any powers? What’s the significance of having both names of Vic Sage AND Victor Zsasz (who is also a knife-wielding serial killer in Batman’s rogues gallery but is seemingly a separate person to this Victor Zsasz)? (Jerry Seinfeld voice) And what’s the deal with the ring and the time-travel?!
No idea, and Jeff Lemire isn’t interested in helping the reader out either. Unless the point was to raise numerous questions in the reader, without answers (maybe there’ll be a sequel book called The Answer for those?), to match the character’s name? In which case Lemire succeeded. So we’ve got a dreary mob framing story, time-travel nonsense where Vic arbitrarily goes to frontier times and the Prohibition era, before landing back in the present and ending on a banal “corruption is bad” message. Boooo!
Never been a fan of Denys Cowan or Bill Sienkiewicz’s super-scratchy art style and, though it’s less pronounced here, it still didn’t do anything for me. Boring and baffling in equal measure throughout, The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage, like The Question’s face, leaves no impression behind.
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