Good Batman/The Question team ups?

[Namor]

What are some good stories of both DC's finest detectives teaming up? Thanks. t:

 

[deathshead2]

I don't think theres any. Heck I don't even think they have been in the same room together.

 

[Nightwing 52]

• Detective Comics Annual #1 Fables part I
• The Question Annual #1 Fables part II
• Green Arrow Annual #1 Fables part III

A great three part story by Denny O' Neil. This is really the definitive Batman/Question story, IMO. Batman also appears in one of the early issues of the O'Neil Question series. There's also Huntress: Cry for Blood, which features both of them. But they don't exactly team up.

 

[The Question]

What are some good stories of both DC's finest detectives teaming up? Thanks. t:

Batman apeared three times in The Question's solo series. They were really more cameo apearences than team ups. The first was in issue two, where Bruce gave Vic a short lecture about how he's a hot headed jackass who's going to get himself killed. The second was during a three part cross over of Batman, Green Arrow, and The Question. lady Shiva contacted the three heroes to help her help an aged martial arts master who now wishes to die and to be burried by his wife who died years ago. Bruce and Vic talked a bit, but Bruce only supplied the group with information and a ride. Didn't partake in any of the action. The third was in a later Question/Green Arrow cross over. By this time, Vic had set up a sort of working relationship with Bruce, using him to get information he would otherwise have no access to. Vic also spoke with Bruce in the mini series Huntress: Cry for Blood. They may have teamed up in the Batman books, but if they did I haven't read about them.


Also, interesting fact: Vic's nickname for Bruce is "Monkey." Probably because of his more agile fighting style.

 

[Harlekin]

What are some good stories of both DC's finest detectives teaming up? Thanks. t:

Elongated Man and Sandman never teamed up.

 

[CBG]

Batman and Question crossed paths more than once. O'Neil's Question though.

Not sure if we'll see post Infinite Crisis Question with Batman anytime for a mystery soon though. . .

 

[yenaled]

Elongated Man and Sandman never teamed up.

You know they should have!

Missed opportunity there.

 

[The Question]

Batman and Question crossed paths more than once. O'Neil's Question though.

Not sure if we'll see post Infinite Crisis Question with Batman anytime for a mystery soon though. . .

It would have been nice if there'd been a Batman/Green Arrow/Question team up in JLU. I could think of the story pretty easily. Butch an Sundance from The Question's series are apart of a major weapons smuggling trade. Q investigates, and Batman and Ollie join up when their guns start flowing into Gotham and Star City. To deal with the three vigilantes, Butch and Sundance hire a "posse" of mercenaries, including Merlyn and Bane. Damn, that would have made a sweet episode.

 

[CBG]

Imagine the conversations between those three.

Hell, it's a sheer crime that we never see Batman and Question holding a conversation with one another in JLU.

 

[The Question]

It really would have been great to see them comparing their feats, and both saying the other's completely crazy.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

The DC RPG.

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Yeah, I'm pimping my own work, wanna fight about it?

 

[CBG]

DC RPG?

Well, I assume Question and Batman's taken up. I have no interest in cross-playing.

Only other characters I would consider are Tim Drake, Earth-2 Superman, and Dream II (Daniel Hall).

 

[The Question]

The DC RPG.

...

Yeah, I'm pimping my own work, wanna fight about it?

I'm the co-author of those, boyo. Credit where credit's due.

DC RPG?

Well, I assume Question and Batman's taken up. I have no interest in cross-playing.

Guess who's The Question.

Only other characters I would consider are Tim Drake, Earth-2 Superman, and Dream II (Daniel Hall).

Daniel would be off limits. High level cosmic beings aren't allowed. That rules out all of The Endless, The Spectre, Lucifer, and most mythological gods are off limits. Although, most DCU gods besides the Olympians are pretty low in power levels by comparison, so a case might be made for DC's Aesir.

 

[CBG]

Guess who's The Question.

Heh.

Question. Which version of Vic do you like better? Ditko, O'Neil, or JLU?

What do you think of the 52 Question so far?

Daniel would be off limits. High level cosmic beings aren't allowed. That rules out all of The Endless, The Spectre, Lucifer, and most mythological gods are off limits. Although, most DCU gods besides the Olympians are pretty low in power levels by comparison, so a case might be made for DC's Aesir.

Understandable.

 

[The Question]

Question. Which version of Vic do you like better? Ditko, O'Neil, or JLU?

Well, I see Ditko's Question and O'Neil's Question as the same guy. Simply at different points in his life. When Ditko wrote him, he was arrogant, angry, and inexperienced. O'Neil had him grow up a bit. As for JLU, I do rather like the consperacy theorist angle. I'd say if I were writing Vic professionally, I'd incorperate some aspects of JLU. Maybe his tendancy to investigate such things out of sheer curiosity, but not that level of paranoia.

What do you think of the 52 Question so far?

Good, but I find him much more interesting when he's narrating.

Understandable.

Really, if someone were playing as Daniel, they could simply have him put everyone on Earth into a coma and whatever the problem is would be over. Characters that powerful can only be used as NPCs.

 

[CBG]

Well, I see Ditko's Question and O'Neil's Question as the same guy. Simply at different points in his life. When Ditko wrote him, he was arrogant, angry, and inexperienced. O'Neil had him grow up a bit.

Understandable.

Ditko's Question bore the objectivist streak, while O'Neil developed him to be a Zen-like character with philosophical undertones.

As for JLU, I do rather like the consperacy theorist angle.

Personally, I felt it was too. . . Rorschach-like. JLU Question is just Rorschach without the violence, and perhaps slightly less wounded, if possible.

Perhaps I've grown too accustomed to O'Neil's Question.

I'd say if I were writing Vic professionally, I'd incorperate some aspects of JLU. Maybe his tendancy to investigate such things out of sheer curiosity, but not that level of paranoia.

Understandable.

We need a Rorschach meets JLU Question comic.

The universe can't contain the paranoia.

Really, if someone were playing as Daniel, they could simply have him put everyone on Earth into a coma and whatever the problem is would be over. Characters that powerful can only be used as NPCs.

Understandable.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Well, I see Ditko's Question and O'Neil's Question as the same guy. Simply at different points in his life. When Ditko wrote him, he was arrogant, angry, and inexperienced. O'Neil had him grow up a bit. As for JLU, I do rather like the consperacy theorist angle. I'd say if I were writing Vic professionally, I'd incorperate some aspects of JLU. Maybe his tendancy to investigate such things out of sheer curiosity, but not that level of paranoia.

I get you about the curiosity. I can see him with such a morbid curiosity that he would be willing to try damn near anything.

 

[CBG]

As advertised back in the late 1980s.

"He'll get to the truth. Or die trying."