Words can be tricky. Renee Montoya has known this for most of her life. Words taught her to feel ashamed of her gender, her sexuality, and her ethnicity. The people of Gotham City taught her to hide who she was to fit in to, be loved, and in doing so, they taught her to hate herself. But from that despair came something unexpected and powerful.
Renee’s path from a closeted police officer in the 1990s to her time as the faceless vigilante known as the Question is one that is inextricably linked with queerness. It is one that is defiant of binaries, outmoded and hateful stereotypes, and the words that propagate them. As the Question more
The Other History of the DC Universe #4 is once again heartfelt, beautiful and just what we need. John Ridley is not messing about. While there are lots of illusions to mirrors and reflections of who Renee really is in this book, he is really holding the mirror up to the rest of us. Are we courageous enough to look? I am. You should be too. It might be ugly, but there is beauty there too. This series just keeps me up at night (but you know, in a good way). Read Full Review
This is a tale that feels real, and a concept that becomes whole, just through the reading. Read Full Review
Camuncoli and Cucchi deliver some beautiful imagery throughout the issue. The story is complex and the art is equally so. Read Full Review
For the first time, The Other History of the DC Universe provides readers with a narrative that focuses on telling a single character's story without needing to staple together or redraft clumsy choices from DC continuity and, in spite of its overly verbose nature, provides a powerful reflection on one of the publisher's most complex character in Gotham City. Read Full Review
Even in a “lesser” installment, The Other History of the DC Universe remains a must-read series. Read Full Review
It's a very good issue focusing on a great character, but the last two issues haven't reached the heights of the first two. Read Full Review
Sorry, haters, but this is a perfect comic.
Probably my favorite issue of the miniseries so far. Me and a friend were making fun of the potential response to this issue, you know, how it's about a woman, a gay woman at that, and she didn't even have the good grace to be white about it. And... well, it's unfortunate to say that's the genuine response some bigoted idiots have.
Not as good as the last one. But Ridley and Camuncoli do their job. Perhaps it was my mistake to expect this issue to be about everyday latino struggles since Renee is also an LGBT woman. Still good.
Race baiting POS can go fuck himself
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