The previous three years of this series all skewed younger, staying away from any sort of ongoing plots or delving into any kind of characterization. I’ll agree, it’s good reading for the really young kids, my girlfriend’s kid loves it, but it’s actually kind of insultingly over-simplistic to fans of the cartoon.
This issue, however, finally delivers a story that would fit in place on the cartoon perfectly, and not only that, but fans lamenting the Question’s death in 52 earlier this year should buy this issue as it’s a truly loving spotlight on that unique and delusional character.
While the peripheral superheroes in this story (basically everyone besides the Question) are again overly simplified and rather one-dimensional, the Question is portrayed here as perfectly as he was in the cartoon, his brain is riddled with paranoia and he’s obsessed with conspiracy. This issue follows him as he searches, seemingly pointlessly, for further signs of a Durlan (shape-shifting aliens) invasion, eventually reigning triumphant to everyone’s surprise but himself.
It’s a smart, funny and fun book from Simon Spurrier, Min S. Ku and Jeff Albrecht that is as enjoyable (if not more so) for the older fans of the cartoon as it is for the young ones.
4 out of 5 Vikings
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