Now, getting back to The Question (which I, too, am enjoying quite a bit--Tommy Lee Edwards' art is almost Colanesque in its oddly focused haziness, and Veitch's beatnik antics amuse me...if there's one thing comics as a whole can use more of, it's verbal experimentation--and no, I'm not saying that Veitch is the new Ginsberg...although, if you've read Walker Percy's brilliant The Moviegoer, you may have noticed a certain similarity between the Question's new relationship to places and Binx Bolling's, who even has a kind of conversation of his own with Chicago, late in the novel), which I don't want to go into in too much detail, because we're only a third of the way through the series, I think it's at least fair to say that the author must have had a point in transforming the Objectivist into a mystic. Why not think about what it might have been (i.e. is he saying that Objectivism is an--unselfconscious--brand of mysticism? that's my guess, right now), instead of longing for Ditko's characterization? Unless you are a dedicated Objectivist yourself, and are reading this as a (fictional) comrade's renunciation of "the true faith", why not give it a rest, hunh?
I'll have more to say about this series in three months...
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