Blake Petit
January 3rd 2005, 05:51 PM
Review by: Blake M. Petit Blake@comixtreme.com
Quick Rating: Average
Title: The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Devil’s in the Details Part Three)
The Question tracks the newest scheme in Metropolis’s underworld.
<a href="http://www.comixtreme.com/gallery/data/media/751/ques3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.comixtreme.com/gallery/data/thumbnails/751/ques3.jpg" align="left" border="0"></a>Writer: Rick Veitch
Art: Tommy Lee Edwards
Letters: John Workman
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Cover Art: Tommy Lee Edwards
Publisher: DC Comics
Review: While not quite the garbled mess that the last issue of this title was, The Question #3 is still a pretty scattershot comic, with lots of plot threads that don’t seem to intersect in any way. Vic Sage, the Question, is wandering Metropolis, busting various crimes – drugs, prostitution, you name it. Meanwhile, Lois Lane, at Lex Luthor’s new Science Spire, gets to test an experimental apparatus that shows her the Chi of the city. (Is there a pun there? I don’t know.)
The newest scheme many of Metropolis’ crooks find to thwart Superman’s all-seeing eye is actually a pretty clever one, but Rick Veitch runs it into the ground. It is described, outlined and demonstrated no less than three times this issue. That’s two times too many. Meanwhile, there are a slew of other stories that don’t appear to matter very much to each other.
Tommy Lee Edwards does a solid job on the artwork. It’s wild, muddled and totally schizophrenic, much like the feel of this comic book. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say he pencils the pages himself, then puts watercolors to them to flesh the look out. It looks good.
Solid art, though, doesn’t help this muddled, incomprehensible story. The Question is one of those characters that has a really strong cult following but that has never really been able to find an audience in recent years. I don’t think this miniseries is going to change that.
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Quick Rating: Average
Title: The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Devil’s in the Details Part Three)
The Question tracks the newest scheme in Metropolis’s underworld.
<a href="http://www.comixtreme.com/gallery/data/media/751/ques3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.comixtreme.com/gallery/data/thumbnails/751/ques3.jpg" align="left" border="0"></a>Writer: Rick Veitch
Art: Tommy Lee Edwards
Letters: John Workman
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Cover Art: Tommy Lee Edwards
Publisher: DC Comics
Review: While not quite the garbled mess that the last issue of this title was, The Question #3 is still a pretty scattershot comic, with lots of plot threads that don’t seem to intersect in any way. Vic Sage, the Question, is wandering Metropolis, busting various crimes – drugs, prostitution, you name it. Meanwhile, Lois Lane, at Lex Luthor’s new Science Spire, gets to test an experimental apparatus that shows her the Chi of the city. (Is there a pun there? I don’t know.)
The newest scheme many of Metropolis’ crooks find to thwart Superman’s all-seeing eye is actually a pretty clever one, but Rick Veitch runs it into the ground. It is described, outlined and demonstrated no less than three times this issue. That’s two times too many. Meanwhile, there are a slew of other stories that don’t appear to matter very much to each other.
Tommy Lee Edwards does a solid job on the artwork. It’s wild, muddled and totally schizophrenic, much like the feel of this comic book. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say he pencils the pages himself, then puts watercolors to them to flesh the look out. It looks good.
Solid art, though, doesn’t help this muddled, incomprehensible story. The Question is one of those characters that has a really strong cult following but that has never really been able to find an audience in recent years. I don’t think this miniseries is going to change that.
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