March Question Madness

I know I haven't said a whole lot here lately, so I'm not sure I will get a lot of response to this, but here goes. If you'd like me to write a little more, then by all means, ask me a question. It is March, and it is the LJ way.



So have at it, ask away, and I will answer. Comments are screened but please let me know if you want to stay anonymous as I like to answer directly. I should try to ask a few questions of others, too.

Questions about The Question

Right now I'm trying to redirect some negative energy from a customer call gone all sorts of wrong, and I got royally chewed out by the caller. Oh, and we screwed up, but not on every part of it, and the caller doesn't want to take responsibility for the portion he screwed up.

Luckly I have tomorrow off, and I don't have to talk to him again. I'm trying to calm down so I'm not still angry about the call when I go to the midnight showing of Watchmen tonight. With that being said, let's answer some questions!

1. winbear asks: I like that you used the Charlton/DC character "The Question" as the artwork for {the perevious} post. What do you think of the more recent female Question? Also, feel free to compare and contrast The Question with the Watchmen's Rorschach since they are loosely analogous.

I think the idea of Renee Montoya being the new Question is a good one, and DC certainly took forever to make a link from the previous Question to her, but she really hasn't been used well yet. There's also the problem that the Question is firmly in the Bat-Family now, and not the more universal DC character that reporter Vic Sage was. Montoya is more attached to the Gotham City Police Department and the fact she was Batwoman's former girlfriend.

Oh, and how many world's greatest detectives does Gotham City need? Geez. Hopefully Montoya will be able to break out of the Bat-books like Oracle was able to and solve crimes elsewhere.

All of the Watchmen have a DC correlation because Alan Moore started it as a alternative Charlton Comics story before DC got cold feet (DC learned their lesson with Kingdom Come and The Dark Knight Returns). Rorschach is most definitely The Question, Owlman is Blue Beetle, Silk Specter is Phantom Lady, Dr. Manhattan is Captian Atom, etc. The Question is doggedly relentless just like Rorschach.

All the characters are much darker, and much more violent, even to the point of being deranged. The idea is that anyone who would actually want to be a super-hero would already be out of their mind.

I enjoyed the Animated Justice League take on the Question where he was a total conspiracy theorist and voiced by the guy who does "Monk". the guy who played all those aliens on Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Enterprise.

2. chibi_masshuu adds: "... as I suspected, 32 flavors." ~ The Question

"Thirty-Two Flavors and then some." ~ Ani DiFranco

Well, I have a couple of other questions that aren't about the Question, but I will try to answer those tomorrow. I need to eat dinner and get ready for the movie.

If you have a question, comments are screened if you go to THIS post. Keep asking away.