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Brian Bendis is Not Steve Ditko – Action Comics #1005 Asks and Answers The Question

Has The Question ever looked more Rorschachy than he does drawn by Ryan Sook and coloured by Brad Anderson? Gone is the blue coat of even the recent past…

Brian Bendis is Not Steve Ditko – Action Comics #1005 Asks and Answers The Question

…or even the dark brown coat, knocked back to a beige trenchcoat. And no hair sticking out, it appears to be a full head mask.

Brian Bendis is Not Steve Ditko – Action Comics #1005 Asks and Answers The Question

Rorschach was originally based on The Question, given a more extreme and Randian absolutist spin and an iconic shifting Rorschach test mask. And now the traffic has reversed a fair bit. And since the Question has a question, it would be rude not to answer. The Red Cloud is the latest enforcer of enforcers, bringing the league of invisible criminal organisations together… but their influence may go further and higher…

Brian Bendis is Not Steve Ditko – Action Comics #1005 Asks and Answers The Question

…as the corruption at the top also appears to have moved into the invisible areas as well.

Oh but the Question did have a question. Who is the Red Cloud? And the solicitations did promise and answer…

ACTION COMICS #1005
(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A/CA) Ryan Sook
The murderous mystery of the Red Cloud uncovered! Clark Kent draws closer to revealing a secret crime family that has operated for years in Metropolis, but the family's enforcer-the mysterious Red Cloud-proves she's a match for even the Man of Steel with an attack that leaves Superman breathless. Don't miss the last-page shocker as we reveal the true face of the Red Cloud! In Shops: Nov 28, 2018
SRP: $3.99

Action Comics has brought in a number of new characters since Brian Bendis took over the Superman comic books. And, unlike The Question creator Steve Ditko, he wasn't going to let an anonymous character be revealed as the Big Bag to make a point.

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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