The Question and Rorschach
Apr. 10th, 2009 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shankieSo I was talking about Vic hanging out with Ted all the time this morning, which reminded me of an issue of The Question I'd never shared... but meant to. And with Watchmen being out now, I suppose it's timely.
"A Dream of Rorschach" is The Question #17 (the late 80's-ish series) and I've found has been a lot of people's first reading of that series just because of the reference. It begins at a senior citizen's home, where an old guy refuses to come down from the roof, because he's dreamt the "Angel'a Death" is going to fall from the sky. And lo, Vic falls out of a helicopter and crushes him to death a few minutes later... and Vic is pretty messed up about it, with all kinds of guilt... so he goes on a trip to try and solve the crime that had him swinging from a helicopter in the first place.
And that's what he picks up to read on the plane. :D
A security guard had just taken a bullet for him, as well as a guy from a previous issue Vic had been investigating, Loomis McCarthy. The deal with McCarthy's death is summarized here, from #15 if you're curious.
vicsage.com is cool, anyway. :D
Vic tries to get information at a bar, but makes it epic fail by getting wasted instead, and almost getting his ass kicked by making what he was doing so very obvious then being too drunk to fight back very well. He just barely wins.
Yes, yes he would. If he laughed at anything, that is.
Personally, I think Vic's ugly pants are the funniest thing about that scene. Seriously, those are fugly.
I never claimed Vic Sage is a total genius. He's taken three could-easily-cause-a-concussion-hard blows to the head in this issue alone! It's amazing he doesn't have brain damage!
Note the silhouette lurking in the first panel. I love that, because it's so easy to miss, and if you do, it's like, "WTF is Green Arrow doing in this book?" until the next issue, when his presence is explained.
Yeah... there is that little hiccup of Rorschach dying in the end, isn't there?
Okay, seriously though? If those really had been Vic's last words, those would be awesome last words, for so many reasons. The whole "irony of Rorschach being based on the Question" is only one. :D
I mostly threw in the last page there because I like that drawing of Ollie. I totally wasn't even planning on having another post with Green Arrow in it, I'd forgotten he was even in this story yet. But he is; he and Vic go on an adventure together. Heck with it, I'll throw in a page from #18 just because Ollie is awesome.
He stays tied up until page 16. XD
Most, but not all, of this series has been collected as 3 trades; this one is from Volume 3: Epitaph For a Hero. I'm hoping they release the rest of the series later on, because it may not be perfect, but it dealt with issues of morality in a good way and had a wonderfully flawed Vic Sage treading the line between hero and total madman. I thought it was pretty awesome, one of those runs I re-read a lot.
"A Dream of Rorschach" is The Question #17 (the late 80's-ish series) and I've found has been a lot of people's first reading of that series just because of the reference. It begins at a senior citizen's home, where an old guy refuses to come down from the roof, because he's dreamt the "Angel'a Death" is going to fall from the sky. And lo, Vic falls out of a helicopter and crushes him to death a few minutes later... and Vic is pretty messed up about it, with all kinds of guilt... so he goes on a trip to try and solve the crime that had him swinging from a helicopter in the first place.
And that's what he picks up to read on the plane. :D
A security guard had just taken a bullet for him, as well as a guy from a previous issue Vic had been investigating, Loomis McCarthy. The deal with McCarthy's death is summarized here, from #15 if you're curious.
vicsage.com is cool, anyway. :D
Vic tries to get information at a bar, but makes it epic fail by getting wasted instead, and almost getting his ass kicked by making what he was doing so very obvious then being too drunk to fight back very well. He just barely wins.
Yes, yes he would. If he laughed at anything, that is.
Personally, I think Vic's ugly pants are the funniest thing about that scene. Seriously, those are fugly.
I never claimed Vic Sage is a total genius. He's taken three could-easily-cause-a-concussion-hard blows to the head in this issue alone! It's amazing he doesn't have brain damage!
Note the silhouette lurking in the first panel. I love that, because it's so easy to miss, and if you do, it's like, "WTF is Green Arrow doing in this book?" until the next issue, when his presence is explained.
Yeah... there is that little hiccup of Rorschach dying in the end, isn't there?
Okay, seriously though? If those really had been Vic's last words, those would be awesome last words, for so many reasons. The whole "irony of Rorschach being based on the Question" is only one. :D
I mostly threw in the last page there because I like that drawing of Ollie. I totally wasn't even planning on having another post with Green Arrow in it, I'd forgotten he was even in this story yet. But he is; he and Vic go on an adventure together. Heck with it, I'll throw in a page from #18 just because Ollie is awesome.
He stays tied up until page 16. XD
Most, but not all, of this series has been collected as 3 trades; this one is from Volume 3: Epitaph For a Hero. I'm hoping they release the rest of the series later on, because it may not be perfect, but it dealt with issues of morality in a good way and had a wonderfully flawed Vic Sage treading the line between hero and total madman. I thought it was pretty awesome, one of those runs I re-read a lot.