New TEEN TITANS and JUSTICE LEAGUE (w/ Spoilers)

[Psychotic Dreamer]

The character was named The Question and I don't know anything about him other than his name. He was voiced by Jeffrey Combs.

 

[driver8]

I just saw the latest JLU episode.
I haven't really followed DC much. I know the major players from the comics, but I'm clearly missing something. Who was the faceless guy that helped Supergirl and Green Arrow, and what's his story? I liked his X-files-ish take on everything. In the comics, do we ever find out who he thinks is behind it all... and do you think we'll see it in the show?

Plus, who can tell me the voice actor that played him. It was SOOO familiar, but I couldn't place it (I have such a hard time disassociating the voice from the image I'm seeing, and the credits rolled too fast for me to guess).

I liked the episode, but I miss having Batman in it. He's by far my favorite character both in the comics and in animated shows.

The character was The Question and was voiced by Jeffrey Combs of ReAnimator fame, who also potrayed the Vorta Weyoun in Star Trek DS9 and most recently the Andorian Commander in Enterprise. He does quite a bit of voice work too.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-14531

The Question in the comics was an investigative reporter turner crimfighter IIRC.

http://www.dcuguide.com/Who/Question_Bio.htm

 

[Kaledor]

The character was The Question and was voiced by Jeffrey Combs ... the Andorian Commander in Enterprise.

Ah Yes! That's the voice I was hearing. Thanks. Like I said, I have a hard time disassociating voices in animated films. My wife is much better at it than I, but she wasn't around for the episode

 

[Villano]

The character was named The Question and I don't know anything about him other than his name. He was voiced by Jeffrey Combs.

Steve Ditko created The Question. I'm not an expert on the character, but, from what I remember, he was Vic Sage, host of an investigative news show. The Question was his way of bringing to justice those whom he couldn't expose on the show.

Ditko was known for weird and surreal stuff (like Dr. Strange), and I think The Question followed that mold. I don't think he was a full-on X-Files conspiracy theorist, though. Of course, the character's been around since, I think, the '60s, so it's possible he moved in that direction at some point.

Another possiblity is that they modeled him on Ditko, himself. I've heard vague, strange stories about Ditko. I've read interviews with pros who've made passing comments about Ditko making "wild accusations" about other comic pros.

It's sad to see, but such things do happen. Chester Gould, the creator of Dick Tracy, became strange and paranoid in his later years. At one point in the series, Gould had Tracy become a space cop in a series of Flash Gordon-like adventures. It was a terrible idea and it bombed badly and several papers dropped the strip.

What's strange about it is that Gould anticipated several real life inventions in his strip. In the space stories, he came up with the idea of having ships being powered by magnetism. When the space program didn't follow suit, he declared that they government knew about magnetic powered vehicles and was covering it up. I think he even blamed the dropping of Dick tracy from certain papers to some sort of conspiracy.

 

[Chun-tzu]

The Question is also the character whom Rorschach, of the Watchmen, was based on, and I'm guessing the JLU team wanted a bit of Rorschach (a paranoid loon) in their version of the Question.

 

[mmu1]

I caught the most recent episode of Justice League by accident (I've seen a few in the past) and I have to ask - what was the deal with the simply awful CGI that found its way into it? (the surgical bot, the helicopters, some of the cars...) Did they run out of time, did someone forget about cell-shading...?

 

[driver8]

I caught the most recent episode of Justice League by accident (I've seen a few in the past) and I have to ask - what was the deal with the simply awful CGI that found its way into it? (the surgical bot, the helicopters, some of the cars...) Did they run out of time, did someone forget about cell-shading...?

Ya that was kind of weird. The bot wasnt too bad (wasnt great) but the helicopters and cars looked bad. Others series have pmixed 3d in their shows but JLUs was just jarring..too low poly.

 

[CrusaderX]

The Question is also the character whom Rorschach, of the Watchmen, was based on, and I'm guessing the JLU team wanted a bit of Rorschach (a paranoid loon) in their version of the Question.

Yep. And this JLU episode was titled "Fearful Symmetry", which was also the title from one of the Watchmen issues.

 

[Nightfall]

Alright Nightfall's comments about recent JLU and TT eps.

Firstly regarding Little Piggie: Humorous but not as much action as I was hoping for. In the end though, I was happy with it in terms of a) Circe getting nailed with a piano, B) cameos and the BB man channeling Joey Triebiani(sp). C) Batman singing. D) Medusa. Just the fact she was talking like some Compton inmate was sweet and her last comment "Free in 4010 Big Whoop!" That was awesome.

Deception: Best parts were seeing a little more of Cy's vulnerable side as well as the crush Jinx had on him. Brother Blood, scary. My thought about his new placement is that he just replaced the old Headmistress with himself via a coup. But I'm so not counting out Brother Blood. The man is certainly Raz' Al'Ghoul worthy material in this incarnation. Oh yeah both initiations for both sides on Cy were funny as hell.

Upcoming week's esp:

Fearful symmetry most CERTAINLY lays down heavy overall plot stuff for this season. I mean if they can splice and grow Supergirl, you KNOW they are going to try to do more with that. The Ulti-men thing in the upcoming season has to be more on that. Jeffery Coombs (also who voiced the new look Scarecrow in Batman), was brilliant. Probably my most favorite parts were as follows: the Kolchack homage, the Question singing pop songs while breaking in, the Questions comments in general (I go through EVERYONE's trash, being the highlight). My only gripe is just the fact that this kind of stuff annoys me. By that I mean if these "Higher ups" had ANY clue about the powers the Superguys and gals face on a daily basis, they'd be staying out of it. I mean compared to Morgan Le Fay, or even Darksied, these guys are just rank, rank amateurs. But then as Einstein said "There are two infinite things in the world. The universe and humanity stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe."

But by far, Red X ROCKS the house on every level in terms of just great fights, some unanswered questions (JUST who the HELL is Red X and how the hell did he/she get past TT security?!), and seeing Robin become almost as introspective as his mentor Batman. (Just glad he's got fewer women issues.) Funny things I liked, Star poking the hell out of Robin, Beast Boy trying to catch up. And Raven's comment "And now I smell like Rhino butt.")

So there you are.

Next week, we get the following:

Starfire get's married. You know Robin will have a problem. Will Black Fire break up the marriage for him? Stay tuned.

So the League's fighting Modru. Wow. That's one damn powerful wizard. (Still think Rastilin could take him. ) Anyway but apparently it's all Booster Gold's job to keep the peace while the League does their thing. I know I'm a Huge BG fan so THIS should be really good.

 

[takyris]

Woohoo! I love Coombs (Combs, however you spell it). I thought it was him. Loved the character, although I felt weird about not knowing anything about his powers. So, no face, he can sorta disguise himself, he makes smoke show up sometimes, and other than that...? I was really not sure what he was or did. Doesn't mean I didn't like him, though.

My wife laughed out loud when he dropped the pins.