Anna Daniels
Aside from being mentioned as an ex-girlfriend of Kate Kane’s in Batwoman, Renee Montoya had been mostly absent from the DC Universe since the “New 52” reboot in 2011, and the Question as a concept was taken in some pretty weird directions. For a while, the Question wasn’t even Vic Sage, it was an unnamed immortal figure who had been punished for his sins by wizards who removed his facial features, and who was briefly on a team with Pandora (who unleashed all evil on the world in Greek Mythology), and Judas (from the Bible — the non-crime one). If we’re ranking stories that feel like weird divergences, that one’s probably at the top.
In 2019, however, the Superman titles got an influx of new creative teams. Superman and Action Comics were taken over by Brian Michael Bendis — best known for his work on Ultimate Spider-Man and The Avengers during his two decades at Marvel, where he co-created Miles Morales, among others. A new Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen series launched for the first time since the ’70s under Hawkeye writer Matt Fraction and Superior Foes of Spider-Man artist Steve Lieber. There was also a new Lois Lane title, drawn by Mike Perkins and written by Greg Rucka.
If you’ve been paying attention to the names of the creators so far, you can probably guess where this is going. Sure enough, Lois Lane #1 saw the return of Renee Montoya as the Question, helping Lois investigate a death that was tied to the super-criminal Leviathan. It was while she was snooping around for Lois that she encountered someone dressed in the classic Question costume, who unmasked and revealed himself to be Vic Sage. The only problem was that he was the same Vic Sage who had died in her arms way back in 2007 — real-world 2007, that is. The conversation that followed implied that they remembered their history from before the DC Universe was rebooted, but also knew that those events never happened in this version of their universe. In a very literal sense, that encounter left readers with… a couple of Questions.
Written by: Looper
