Sunday, May 4, 2008

For the curious...

The picture in question (which used to be a part of this page's design):




...the panels you see at the top of the page are from Issue #2 of DC Comics' The Question, written by Denny O'Neil, pencilled by Denys Cowan, inked by Rick Magyar (published March 1987).

That's the what.

At left,
Richard Dragon, master of the martial arts. At right, Charles Victor Zsasz, aka Vic Sage, aka The Question.

Those are the whos.

Ever since I first read these panels, I've thought constantly about what Richard's saying to Charlie here--not only with regard to Charlie's future choices throughout the series, but also with regard to my own impulses and thought processes. There are worse nerves to be stricken, I suppose.

And that's the why, for the curious...


Read:
The Question: Zen and Violence, by Denny O'Neil, Denys Cowan, & Rick Magyar
Watch:
A Dandy in Aspic (dir. Anthony Mann, 1968)
Listen to:
Reconstruction Site, by The Weakerthans

1 comment:

heinz said...

So, if you were to bonk Vic Sage over the head with a mallet and then asked him something, would you be asking a stupid Question? And would you get a stupid answer?