Wow, looks great! Will put this up. Wonder how it will fit in with the Global Peace Agency, if at all.

I just can’t get interested in this version of The Question. She’s just a superheroine; even Dennis O’Neil’s exchanging of Steve Ditko’s character for a different character based on the design had a unique philosophical angle.

Cully is one of the best. Detective is gonna be a hell of book.

I’m not keen on Renee. Vic is MY Question. Rucka managed to find a way to make me care about Renee anyway though. I was already on Detective for the awesome JHWIII art, but now it’s more of a lock for me.

Duh – forgot about 52. Thought I’d had enough coffee by now.

except the 4 six issue miniseries

I’m not a die-hard Cully fan but these images do excite me.

Renee looks so smooth and kick-ass. I really hope they let Rucka go with his gut on this one and not dilute who she is.

I am also among the Renee Question agnostics – she was fine as a cop, and I don’t think she has been used well as Charlie’s heir, but I also think that Rucka loves writing her and is the only one who should be writing her.

But I LOVE this art. Seriously. And I love that Tot will be along for the ride and that this seems to be about Charlie’s legacy as much as about Renee’s journey.

Three for three Cully, now you need to do the Captain Atom and Nightshade redesigns! And if DC ever gets Thunderbolt back i’d love to see your take. In case you don’t know what i’m talking about, Cully has redesigned more Charlton characters than any other artist, Blue Beetle, Peacemaker and now The Question.

Judomaster was relaunched in JSA with the Kingdom Come costume, and Son of Vulcan was relaunched over five years ago.

I doubt we’ll ever see Iron Corporal, Doctor Graves, Fightin’ 5, Killjoy (E-Man backup by Ditko), Mercury Man, Mr. Muscles, Nature Boy, Prankster, Yellowjacket, or Zaza the Mystic relaunched.

I hope Batman never comes back to Detective…I love the new line-up for this…I like the idea of using the title for different characters in 2 features.

For the first time in forever, DC has some plans in motion that I’m excited about.

The Question as Katy Keene. Interesting. Not to say that it won’t work, or even be really, really good. But interesting. But nunchaku, no matter how effective, are quite a cliché. I think it would be more creative, and more intimidating, if, like Hannibal Lecter, or Bullseye, she could make use of any random objects in her vicinity at the moment.

looks good.

Not that I care really (I’ll still be picking it up), but isn’t DC worried that Detective may carry more than a few lewd taglines amongst readers? “Detectives hate D—s” or “The Lesbian Book”, for instance.

I was going to save myself money and not buy all of the new Bat-books coming out. It just keeps getting harder to resist. While I miss Vic, I trust Rucka to do great things with Rene while honoring what’s come before. I might be more interested in this than in the Batwoman part.

And have Cully do it!! Geeesh!!

“But nunchaku, no matter how effective, are quite a cliché.”

Really? who else uses nun chaku, beyond donatello (i think)

They look great. I especially like the “street-level” turtle neck look. Has that modern day pulp hero look.

Is it my imagination, or does Professor Aristotle Rodor look like Denny O’Neil?

I hope ALL of the Charlton characters get new lives, even if its by passing the torch. A new generation of “Action Heroes” in ongoing roles in the DCU is long overdue.

I’ll be spending a little extra on a comic for pages I have no intention of reading (just great). Bette Kane and Batwoman will get me to buy Detective instead of dropping it after the announcement of a Montoya/Question co-feature.

Vic death was so forced and pushing Rene Montoya into the role just leaves me disinterested in the Question mantle.

I would’ve love to see DC stay true to there “Action Heroes” and find writers that would make them shine instead of giving us “Replacement Characters”. Enough’s enough already.

On a positive note I like Cully’s art.

The Renee Montoya version of the Question is just ridiculous. Aside from looking just idiotic in a man’s suit and hat, there is no creative spark in her that would qualify her to be The Question. Where is the paranoia, the relentless drive to find the truth, the eccentricity? That is all replaced by a sense of “upholding the mantle.” How novel.

And the only reason Vic Sage died of cancer was so that Rucka could easily shoehorn her into his place and make it look like a “valid” sell to the audience. “Oh look, not only did Vic train her, he wanted her to take his place.” Never mind that if the writers didn’t decide to give him cancer, he wouldn’t have needed to do so in the first place!

This just smirks of DC’s stagnant creative storytelling attempts to create “new female heroes.” In this case, she also happens to be lesbian alongside the new Bat-Woman. What a coincidence. I’m looking at you Rucka and Didio.

How quaint. And totally stupid. Watch for this to fail. No way the Renee Montoya Question will ever get her own ongoing series, even with the pathetic ploy to drum up interest with a backup adventure in Detective. Might as well ship her off to Birds of Prey where B-list characters can thrive.

should have kept the ponytail thats all I’m saying

Steve Bates: “Is it my imagination, or does Professor Aristotle Rodor look like Denny O’Neil?”

Danny,
That’s great. Wonderful news!! Can I ask… where did you read about it?? I would like to see “what’s shakin’”!!

thanks,… more than you know!!

Dan Didio… do you come with batteries on this one??

I can’t help it, as much as I normally love Cully’s work, all I can think of when I look at these pictures is Where’s the dotted line?

They remind me of the paper doll cut-outs of Betty and Veronica’s outfits in the old Archie books.

It’s got no oomph, and I don’t feel like I’m looking at — as someone else said — a “modern day pulp hero.” It has no mystery. At first I thought it was the whole female thing, then perhaps I thought maybe it was that Montoya is, generally, just less interesting and less of an enigma, than Vic Sage was, but then I remembered the old logo for “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?”…that evoked FAR MORE mystery and wonder for me (and I was in my 20s when that show was around, so I’ve got no emotional connection to it).

In sum: bleh.

D. Peace, I could care less whether or not top tier titles have female characters. I only care about good story-telling and good characters, period. Brubaker’s Catwoman was great. But lets face it, we would error in saying that it was a financially top tier title by any stretch of the imagination. Andreyko’s Manhunter was great too, a character with a valid back-story and narrative I quite enjoyed.

But the Renee Montoya Question? Hardly.

When perfectly good characters have been sacrificed in order to develop needless perversions of themselves, that’s when I become angry. Vic Sage had a purity about him, a philosophical edge that was in it’s own way a super-power. Renee Montoya has cop-instincts and a lesbian background?

A Diomedian swap if I ever heard of one.

Greg Rucka, if you are reading this, I honestly think your attempts to create female superheroes have been lacking. Sasha Bordeaux, Bat-Woman, and The Question among the list. Sasha and Renee would have been more enjoyable to read had they remained non-superpowered. I don’t feel you had a valid reason to turn them into super-heroes beyond, “Well I love writing these characters…but the only way they can stay around for me to write them is if I gave them super-powers to earn their keep.” And the Kat Kane Bat-Woman is just a bland concept. She’s female bat-man. Check. She’s lesbian. Check. She’s Jewish! Check. I suppose that makes her three-dimensional…?

I agree with the poster above who predicts it will made good sales in the first six months, then drop off into obscurity. At which point they may change up the Detective title again. It’s Dan Didio’s philosophy of, “The great thing about comics is that you can try again if something doesn’t work the first time.” That’s great Dan, but not if you keep screwing things up repeatedly.

Cully, I loved your work on Blue Beetle and Red. However, aside from my feelings on this Renee Montoya Question, I will be honest about your designs. I don’t get a sense of any femininity in your sketches. In real life I don’t see women walking around wearing those kind of hats, super-hero or not. The nun chucks are kind of out of left field, and a bit incongruous to the nature of the Question and how he/she would operate.

I really liked Vic as the Question, but the transition was so well-handled and part of such an enjoyable story that I can’t help but appreciate Renee now. And if I really start to miss Vic, I can always just go back and read my O’Neil Question issues.

I didn’t think that ‘Tec could be made into a more appealing package than it already was, but this has certainly got me pumped. Can’t wait!

Cully Hamner exclusive? Someone at DC really knows talent. This guy is one of the best and most under-rated. He’s so talented. His artwork is deceptively simple and so beautifully elegant. His Blue Beetle was so much fun. It’s going to be a HUGE treat to have him on The Question. It’s a great idea to have Renee wearing different clothes rather than a set costume. Cully’s notes make good sense, especially that she’s “low-maintenance” yet stylish. I love when a great artist meets a great character. I hope DC works Cully hard and we see a lot of his work.

Why does ‘Tot’ look like the British Chancellor of the Exchequer alistair darling? Well Tot has a personality.