Denys Cowan

The Question by Dennis O'Neil & Denys Cowan Omnibus Vol. 2 concludes the acclaimed run on Vic Sage — the faceless philosopher-vigilante of Hub City. It collects the final issues of the 1987 series plus the follow-up material: The Question Quarterly, the Green Arrow team-up annuals, The Brave and the Bold and later specials. O'Neil and Cowan bring their mature, Zen-inflected crime drama to its close, deepening Vic's introspection and his war on a broken city. The essential second half of one of DC's great late-1980s runs.

The Question by Dennis O'Neil & Denys Cowan Omnibus Vol. 1 collects the acclaimed late-1980s reinvention of Vic Sage — the faceless investigative-journalist vigilante who directly inspired Watchmen's Rorschach. After a near-fatal beating by Lady Shiva, Vic is trained by Richard Dragon in martial arts and Zen, turning a rigid crusader into a man who questions his own methods. It's a mature, philosophical crime drama set in corrupt Hub City, praised for O'Neil's literary writing and Cowan's expressionistic art — including issue #17, where Vic reads Watchmen and confronts his own successor.