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The Question

August 31, 2004: Rick Veitch Answers Questions About “The Question”

ComicBookResources.com has published an interview with writer Rick Veitch asking him about the up-coming six-issue miniseries titled "The Question" which will heavily involve Superman. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    "The story concerns The Question being intuitively drawn to Metropolis and on the trail of the Subterraneans. These guys are a group of ultra professional criminals who have taken the challenge of operating under Superman's nose and are getting away with it. At the same time, Luthor's tearing up half the city to build his monstrous 'Science Spire' as a monument to human endeavor. But the Question, while kicking the stuffing out of any criminals he comes across, gets a glimmer that there is far more to Luthor's project than meets the eye. In fact, it presents a great danger to Superman.

    "What makes 'The Question' different, both as a series and as a character, is how the reader is put into his particular intuitive mind set and slowly begins to amass clues in the same manner the Question does. But you never quite know if he's nuts or not."

    The move to Metropolis for Vic is a deliberate one, part of a larger DC universe plan.

    "The larger conceptual plan was called 'Superstorm' and was built around Brian Azzarello's planned 'Luthor' miniseries. They wanted to bring street level heroes, like the Question and Vigilante, into Metropolis to contrast Superman's larger than life presence. I think some of the titles got delayed with changes in personnel, but we're on track so DC's going ahead and releasing 'The Question' ahead of the others. It works because the 'The Question' miniseries introduces the unifying theme of 'Superstorm'; a massive building project in the center of the city called the Science Spire.

Read the complete article at the CBR website.



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