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sdelmonteRead this week's issue yet? Think you know what happened? Well, I tohught I did. I was wrong.
This was the end for the Question. According to this interview with 52 Editor Michael Siglan, Charlie is dead.
Now we thought that three weeks ago, but this time...well, no one at DC told us he was dead before. That was just us guessing. The last thing he said, about a butterfly? Those are very fitting final words, harking back to the very beginning of his own comic, where Richard Dragon invoked the paprable of the man who dreamed he was a butterfly.
Vic Sage, aka The Question, aka Charles Victor Szasz, aka the No-Face-Guy, is dead.
I'm not sure how I feel about this development. They fake us out, they send Renee on a fools' errand, and then he still dies. That he died from cancer, I can accept. Deaths from more natural causes are always a shock in the comics, and it helps ground this story in reality. But Charlie died without any dignity. Yes, I know that in the real world, that happens far too often. I just would have been nice to see that happen here, that a character I have liked for twenty years would have died in a better way.
And yet...this was never about him. This was about Renee, and knowing that his words to hear are his final words changes the flavor of the issue. Strengthens it. I'm not sure why. Charlie's journey through 38 weeks was always about Renee. We'll never know why. We'll never know what he saw in her. But he brought her back, made her whole and interesting again. And he aksed one last question that needed to be asked.
So while I think there was much that could have been done with the Question, I think his death served a purpose and enhanced a story and a character. I'll just miss him,is all.
This was the end for the Question. According to this interview with 52 Editor Michael Siglan, Charlie is dead.
Now we thought that three weeks ago, but this time...well, no one at DC told us he was dead before. That was just us guessing. The last thing he said, about a butterfly? Those are very fitting final words, harking back to the very beginning of his own comic, where Richard Dragon invoked the paprable of the man who dreamed he was a butterfly.
Vic Sage, aka The Question, aka Charles Victor Szasz, aka the No-Face-Guy, is dead.
I'm not sure how I feel about this development. They fake us out, they send Renee on a fools' errand, and then he still dies. That he died from cancer, I can accept. Deaths from more natural causes are always a shock in the comics, and it helps ground this story in reality. But Charlie died without any dignity. Yes, I know that in the real world, that happens far too often. I just would have been nice to see that happen here, that a character I have liked for twenty years would have died in a better way.
And yet...this was never about him. This was about Renee, and knowing that his words to hear are his final words changes the flavor of the issue. Strengthens it. I'm not sure why. Charlie's journey through 38 weeks was always about Renee. We'll never know why. We'll never know what he saw in her. But he brought her back, made her whole and interesting again. And he aksed one last question that needed to be asked.
So while I think there was much that could have been done with the Question, I think his death served a purpose and enhanced a story and a character. I'll just miss him,is all.
