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The Question: Pipeline (The Question II)
Greg Rucka returns to write the adventures of Renee Montoya – the character he helped transform into The Question – as a gun-running scheme threatens Gotham City.
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
February 1st 2011
by DC Comics
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I liked the character of Renee Montoya before she was picked to be Vic Sage's successor as the Question. Greg Rucka writes women characters well, and a guest spot by Helena Bertinelli was welcomed. The base plot of tracking down and dismantling a multi-national crime ring to its sources was well executed. I even liked the fact Helena and Renee thought it made more sense to buy off the hitman sent to kill them instead of spending endless pages fighting. What I did not like was the introduction of...more
What starts out as a promising detective story from a fantastic noirish writer declines into a typical superhero story with no real payoff. After one chapter the book loses any edge it built, everyone puts on a cape and punches bad guys, and then it's over. The twist at the end of the story comes out of absolutely nowhere (meaning, it is not justified), and relies pretty heavily on the reader's knowledge of minor DC villains. I'm giving this ultimately boring trade an extra star for Cully Hamner...more
The Question, Renee Montoya, is contacted by a man who is desperately looking for his sister. After doing some investigation, Renee finds that the girl has been kidnapped by traffickers. Once Renee recovers the man's sister along with some other women who had been kidnapped, she makes it her mission to find out who runs the trafficking ring and bring them down. Along the way, she teams up with Huntress whose money and skills come in handy for Renee's operation.
I loved this story. I thought it wa...more
I loved this story. I thought it wa...more
This was an entertaining read, with a nice story. Huntress and the Question have good chemistry together as partners. I really would have loved to see this storyline continue longer. Renee Montoya has long been one of my favorite secondary characters in the entire DC universe, underused as she was, and she was shaping up to be an awesome superhero, so it really pisses me off that DC decided to erase her completely in their "new 52" reboot. The character deserved so much better. But, you know, th...more
I'd read the first issue of this volume through a friend and before I knew anything about Question. That wasn't a good context for it, since I didn't know anything about the preceding Final Crisis storyline. We hadn't gotten to Cain yet, but I would've been even more confused, the more I read. In context, however, I enjoyed it very much.
Rucka does a great job handling the Montoya character, and this volume's no exception. And Hamner's a fantastic artist, who can handle action and character with aplomb. It's too bad that this volume's still just so slight. But hey, not bad. Just not great.
Ooh, Barbara Gordon is in this one. And then Renee's reaction to Barbara Gordon is even better. I am bummed though, that they didn't have more The Question (Renee) issues/trade paperbacks. She was such an interesting and complicated character.
These are the back up stories from Rucka's Batwoman run on Detective Comics and they final got an excellent design look for Renee. Very very good.
The Question and Huntress pairing up was pretty enjoyable, but the story wasn't anything that spectacular and I wasn't that big a fan of the artwork. So kind of average overall.
I miss Greg Rucka's work on the Batman titles. It was always so simple and so good.
Story isn't bad but feels a little ... lightweight somehow (even despite the heavy subject matter of human trafficking). I'm inclined to think it's the cartoony-looking art - it's reminiscent of Jock's work on The Losers, which is a lot of fun and suits a bright, well-defined style. Here, I'd expect something with more shadows and gradations of grey, not this approach.
A good and intriguing mystery, but the lesbian undertones are a distraction from the overall story.
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Greg Rucka, is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman: Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.
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