(Question I #3, 4) - Question broke into the mayor's mansion and confronted Reverend Hatch. He wasn't sure whether or not he was going to kill the Reverend, but his thoughts were interrupted when Myra burst into the room. Hatch took advantage of his distraction to attack him with a poker, but after a scuffle Hatch was pitched out a window. While Question was recuperating Myra had gotten married to the mayor. He lusted after her, and Hatch threatened her daughter Jackie if she didn't agree to wed him. They passed by the mayor, who was in his cups, and still had no idea how Hatch was keeping him in power. Myra told Question she trusted him because she had no choice, and warned him that Hatch planned to have a bus bombed because the bus line operators weren't cooperating with him. It was Martin Luther King, Jr. day, and there was a school holiday, so only one bus was operating, taking children to a local speech. Hatch contracted the criminal Musto family, and Question trailed them, preventing Pedro from activating the planted plastique bomb, but Junior Musto was desperate to get his father's acceptance, and had dynamite on hand. Question beat and disarmed him, and then checked in on Jackie, who was special needs and staying at St. Catherine's. Question reflected that childhood was the one respite of existence between the complete ignorance of infancy and the disillusionment of adulthood. The children asked him to build a snowman, and he basked in a moment of innocence that he never really had as a child. Police under Hatch's employ kidnapped Jackie, putting a gun to a nun's head to keep Vic Sage from interfering. Vic told Aristotle he was determined to put an end to Hatch, not because of anything he felt for Myra, but because he couldn't stand to see the innocent betrayed by authority. The mayor overheard Hatch discussing with his flunkies how he was using Fermin to own Hub City, and the drunken mayor tried to confront him, but was knocked cold by Hatch's man Jackie. When he woke he sped away in his car, but quickly crashed into a tree. Fermin told his plans to Jackie, about how he was doing the Lord's work by hastening judgment day, and was going to sacrifice Jackie. Question stole a police cruiser, and made his way to the mayor's mansion. He caught Hatch's goons trying to open his safe with a blowtorch, and made short work of them, but the torch started a massive fire. Question saved Jackie, grabbing the knife Hatch was going to sacrifice him with, sand saying he badly wanted to kill him, but would not. Jackie grabbed the knife and stabbed Hatch in the back. Hatch wandered off into the flames, burning to death, and the fire department arrived to contain the situation.

(Question I #5) - The Hub City government broke down completely, with Fermin giving a rambling speech blaming the communists for burning down his mansion. Myra, in her private apartment, began to have flashbacks about stabbing Hatch, and realized what she did was done out of anger, not a need for self-defence. Order was temporarily restored when the governor called in the military and national guard.

(Question I #6, 7) - With her husband's mind long gone Myra began taking over his responsibilities running the city. Volk, who ran Hub's illegal gambling organizations, was ready to retire and inform on his fellow criminals. Myra arranged for him to meet with Fermin, who said Volk would never give him a square deal like Teddy Roosevelt before he passed out. Volk walked out, and Myra poured the rest of Fermin's bottle over his head for blowing it. She asked Vic to get Volk's story for her, and he wondered why she was assuming responsibility for Hub City. She said she was the only person good enough and smart enough to stop Hub's slide. She admitted she still had feelings for Sage, and she'd been forced to marry Fermin, but she said she still took vows and intended to honor them. Vic, as Question, fought alongside Volk against Volk's gambling partners, who'd found out he was turning against them. In the battle Volk died, along with his competition.

(Question I #8) - Aristotle drove Vic to the hospital after he was stabbed, and he told Dr. Spaulding he was mugged. Spaulding advised him to go to the police, but admitted they probably wouldn't look into another stabbing. Vic's station got a tip about a man who'd been starving his children being carved to death. Investigating further Question found a number of ironic deaths for those who abused people. He asked Myra for any resources she had, and they had a good time retelling all the Hub City jokes making the comedy circuit, deciding it was better to laugh than cry at their desperate situation. Myra found that she actually missed her former lover. Myra still held the reigns while the Mayor was drinking himself to death. The culprit was Dr. Spaulding, who operated as the vigilante the Mikado, and when confronted by Question he committed suicide.

(Question I #12) - Myra met with Vic in an out of the way motel, revealing that she was running for mayor in the next election. She wanted one last fling with Vic, because once she dedicated herself to politics she knew she'd be under intense scrutiny. Question investigated the murders of Channing and Bolger, two prominent residents of the exclusive suburban community Parson Acres. Pete Carstairs, who built Parson Acres, was being blackmailed by them because the community had been built on top of industrial waste. Carstairs hired Baby Gun to kill them, but told Question the Acres were unpolluted, eating dirt on the lawn to prove his claim. Tot analyzed soil samples, proving it was contaminated, and Vic reached out to Mtyra to get the government involved. Fermin asked Myra if he should help, and she just told him to keep drinking. Carstairs died of poisoning, and Question found him dead in his house, with Baby Gun present eating ice cream. Carstairs knew Baby was out of control and had poisoned the dessert. He went into shock, and Question decided to attempt to get him medical treatment.

(Question I #13) - Vic covered the collapse of the Newton Ave. Bridge, which left a number dead. He tried to save a boy whose family's car went under the water in the bridge collapse, but the child was already dead. Myra came to the scene, and city engineer Louis Hadley told her he'd reported the imminent collapse of the bridge to the mayor's office months before. Myra found the man in her department responsible for ignoring the information and fired him, even though he denied any wrongdoing, and Vic wondered if modern society bred apathy and refusal to take responsibility for anything.

(Question I #14) - Myra hired political consultant Cobb to run her campaign, and didn't like the emphasis he put on her looks over her policies. He said she needed him to win, and the public cared about her looks too because they judged female politicians differently than men, so she acquiesced. During the press conference announcing her candidacy she was grilled over having a child out of wedlock. She told Cobb she already hated campaigning, and he assured her the attacks on her would get worse, not better.

(Question I #15, 16) - Royal Dinsmore announced he was running against Myra, and she called him out on his polemic racist politics, blaming the poor and minority populations for Hub City's problems. Myra continued to make her interests in the position of mayor known, and said she'd work with people like chief of detectives Izzy O'Toole, a formerly corrupt officer who was cleaning up the department, to end corruption in Hub City. She told Vic that her party's national committee doubted her because of her association with Wesley, and asked him to find her someone to endorse her. Question talked to Izzy, and found that he was interested in working with Myra, so Question told him to keep himself alive for a few days. Question sabotaged threats on his life from out-of-town criminal Sundance, and aired a segment with Izzy in which he endorsed Myra for mayor.

(Question I #19) - Vic Sage reported on the robbery of an armored truck company where the perpetrator used a plastic gun manufactured by the Polys Corporation to evade a metal detector, and noted that Butch Cassidy had also used a Polys gun to break his partner out of custody. Myra’s political adviser introduced her to Alexander Polys, who wanted to open up a factory in Hub City. She was unnerved by the way he talked about plastic as the pinnacle of man’s creation, but was interested in his offer of bringing jobs into the city and contributing $500,000 to her campaign. Myra told Cobb she was unsure of Polys, and wanted to try to dig up some dirt on Dinsmore first to see if that tactic could swing votes her way. She enlisted Vic, who, as the Qyuestion, tailed Dinsmore and heard him bragging to his bodyguards that once he was elected he’d start rounding up minorities and putting them in prison, because he racistly viewed them as undesirables. The Question couldn’t control his rage, knowing that if Dinsmore won the city would be a powderkeg waiting to explode, and revealed himself, brutalizing Dinsmore’s bodyguards. Vic contacted Myra to tell her Dinsmore was as bad as they suspected, but he couldn’t prove anything. Wesley drunkenly stumbled into Myra’s bedroom, insisting she drink with him and getting furious when she refused. Myra sighed and called Cobb, telling him she’d back Polys. Vic was dismayed, and brought up the use of Polys guns in Hub City to dissuade Myra, but she wouldn’t listen. Vic said he was sure there was something dirty about Polys, but she told him to stay out of it. Vic asked Aristotle to prove his intuition correct, and after some hacking Aristotle told him there were irregularities in the company’s finances but he couldn’t tie him to illegal arms shipments without months of research and a team of accountants. Vic got a call from taxi driver August Lumberg, who’d given a ride to Polys and witnessed him doing business with Butch Cassidy. Polys knew Lumberg was a witness, and informed Cobb, who dispatched Fred Dolbert, a hitman, to take care of him. Lumberg had lost his wife years ago, and took to keeping a love doll in his apartment that he pretended was his wife. Dolbert tormented him by shooting the doll, but then Question appeared and gave him a beating until he confessed who sent him. Question thanked Lumberg, patched up his love doll, and visited Cobb. He told Cobb to send a note apologizing to Myra for dirtying her campaign and leave town or Question would turn him and Dolbert over to the police. Vic visited Myra, but before he could tell her what he’d discovered, she said she’d decided not to bring on Polys as a financial backer because she found his business immoral.

(Question I #20) - Mikey the Cartoon Clown had a mental breakdown live on his show, telling children that if their parents were divorced it was because they hated them, saying women were only interested in one thing, and exposing himself to the camera. He was taken to a psychiatric hospital, and Myra felt bad because they used to work on the same station together, and she had chocolate delivered to him in the hospital. Vic Sage hosted a debate among Fremin, Dinsmore and newly announced Jazzlett. Dinsmore said he wanted pure upstanding Christian policemen, and he’d order them to take the law into their own hands, saying the only way to remove the criminal element from Hub City was to start killing criminals. Jazzlett asked why they couldn’t all get along, and Myra retorted that Hub City had the worst crime in the country because of unemployment, poverty and a government that had been utterly corrupt for decades. After the debate Myra confided in Vic, saying she believed they were responsible for Mike “the Cartoon Clown” Rappaport’s breakdown. He’d always had a crush on her and viewed her as an angel, but he’d seen her and Vic having their final night together at Manny’s Motel. Vic said he was clearly unstable, and if that hadn’t been what drove him over the edge something else would have. He told Myra to stop demonizing herself for being a woman with needs. Boston’s Traveling Circus came to town, and when Bobo the Clown tried to drum up interest in the city he was dragged into an alley and brutally beaten to death by three men who’d mistaken him for Mikey. They were inspired by Dinsmore’s encouragement for people to take the law into their own hands, and when they learned of their mistake they didn’t feel guilty, but were determined to hunt down Mikey and kill him. Vic sensed a connection between Mikey, who’d just been released from care be cause of overcrowding, and Bobo’s death, so he told Tot he was headed to the circus. Tot waxed poetic about clowns inspiring fear because they outwardly acted like incompetent fools and madmen, which all men, deep inside, knew themselves to be, and the audience only laughed as a defense against recognition of their own madness. Vic said he just wanted to solve a crime. Mikey went to Boston’s Circus and was immediately taken in because the troupe recognized him as a born carnie. The men who’d killed Bobo, ran over Beany, the human skeleton, killing him, and assaulted Boston before hitting Mikey with bats. Question appeared and beat down the thugs. He told the fat lady to get Mikey to the hospital, and was pleased to realize she’d formed an instant connection with the broken clown. Question turned on the news only to hear Dinsmore spewing more hate. Question was in a rage, but unable to harm Dinsmore physically he spent all night defacing his campaign posters, portraying him as a clown.

(Question I #22) - Wesley drunkenly put a gun to his head and got upset when Myra took it away from him, having already forgotten that he was contemplating suicide. Wesley barely remembered the past year, and got more upset when Myra told him he wasn’t up for re-election because she was running. Wesley asked where Reverend Hatch was, and Myra reminded him he died in a fire. Myra’s makeup artist Maurice took it upon himself to start acting as her advisor, and told her to call a press conference completely disavowing her husband. Maurice said he was the perfect campaign adviser because his whole job was built on false promises. Myra asked why he cared so much about her winning, and he replied that as a gay man Dinsmore and his supporters would be happy to see him in a concentration camp or dead. At Myra’s press conference she revealed that after Wesley fell deep into alcoholism she’d been the one running the city behind the scenes. Wesley saw the press conference on TV and was furious with Myra, calling her a communist and cursing her out. He asked if he meant anything to her anymore, and she said once she got elected the first thing she was going to do was to send him to rehab and get him the help he needed for his addiction.

(Question I #23, 24) - On election day Vic uncovered that the new voting machines came pre-loaded with votes, and they were disallowed. Royal hired bikers to intimidate voters, but Question made short work of them. Myra told Maurice she didn't really want to win or lose; if she won she was responsible for one of the shabbiest cities in the country, and if she lost a racist thug would destroy whatever remained of the city. Wesley stumbled in and called her a defeatist, infuriating her. She told him she knew he was sick, but he'd failed as a man and as a mayor, and shirked his responsibilities so he could stay drunk all the time. She told him she couldn't wait to attend his funeral. Wesley shuffled off to his room and grabbed a gun. Myra and Maurice waited for all the votes to be tallied, and waited out the storm in the basement of City Hall with Wesley. Wesley was playing with his gun, and Myra said guns weren’t much use against tornadoes, but he replied that guns had other uses. They survived the storm only to learn that Dinsmore won the election by a single vote, although he was currently missing. Vic went to see Myra to offer her condolences but Maurice told him Myra really needed to be alone at the moment. Vic covered an accident at the riverfront, where a car that had driven intoi the water during the storm was being dredged up. Inside the car was Dinsmore, who’d drowned. Vic broadcast the story, and because of Hub City laws, if an elected official died before being sworn into office the runner-up would be considered the winner, and Vic congratulated Myra. Vic spoke to Myra, who was having second thoughts. She felt obligated to help Hub City, but wished she could just focus on being a mother and starting up her journalism career again. She wondered what difference it would make in a hundred years who won the election anyway. Vic replied that all they could do was live in the moment and make the most out of the time they had. Myra gave him a kiss goodbye, and said in the future she’d be interested in giving their relationship another go. Myra gave her acceptance speech while Wesley drunkenly told the press that JFK and Martin Luther King had gone too far in their politics, and best served history be being made examples of. Myra talked about ending corruption and rebuilding the city when Wesley pulled his gun and shot her.

(Question I #25) - Wesley said Myra was a bad wife and and godless to boot. KBEL reporter Jerry Thatcher tried to grab him, but Wesley fatally shot him in the head before fleeing in the confusion. Myra was still clinging to life and was rushed to the hospital. Riots broke out across the city and Vic met with Izzy, who said his men were stretched thin. He was currently dealing with a hostage situation where two men who’d robbed a liquor store and shot a cop were holed up in a tenement where they were holding two elderly sisters at gunpoint. Back at home Rodor said he noticed Vic was brooding and seething, which didn’t solve anything. Vic felt guilty about Thatcher’s death because he was supposed to be the one covering Myra’s acceptance speech, but he bowed out because subconscious he was hoping Myra wouldn’t win the election and they’d end up together again. Vic smashed a table in a rage and Tot said he was going to have to pay to replace it. Vic said he needed to be righteous and he needed someone to fight. He changed into the Question and said he was going to hunt Wesley Fermin down, and refused to answer Tot when he asked what he’d do when he found him. Question pulled a list of Wesley’s biggest campaign donators and focused on liquor distributor Willy Sundert. Question fell asleep in the park, dreaming of a monstrous Skell who lived in the hearts of every Hub City resident and had grown to enormous size by feeding off the city. Question woke and snapped, severely beating a number of rioters before getting in a confrontation with police officers and taking a bullet to the leg. KBEL did a report stating that under Hub City’s by-laws after a mayor died or was left incapable of serving the previous incumbent became mayor, meaning Wesley was technically still the boss of Hub city. Question saw Sundert load Wesley into a limo, but was too wounded to stop him. Wesley showed up at Izzy’s hostage situation, saying he was in charge and grabbing an officer’s gun before he started firing at the tenement. The officers were forced to fire when the suspects started shooting back. The suspects were fatally shot, as was Wesley, with some considering him a hero.

(Question I #26) - Vic visited Myra in the hospital, and the doctor told him her condition hadn't improved, and she was still comatose so she didn't know her husband was dead. The doctor opined how unfair it was that one of Hub City's only good citizens was at death's door.

(Question I #27) - Vic found Tot’s entire run of the wartime comic book Captain Stars & Sergeant Stripes and was surprised that a philosopher had an interest in funny books. Vic said the nuns never let him read comics when he was growing up, fearing they’d corrupt him. Tot said he had a fond nostalgia of Stars & Stripes because they were created by his cousin Alvin, a child prodigy, when he was twelve. Alvin vanished off the face of the Earth, and Tot hadn’t heard from him until yesterday, when Alvin sent him a letter informing him that he’d been traveling the world for 43 years, but was ready to come home to Hub City. Vic visited Myra night after night, and while her bullet wounds were healing the doctors saw no signs of her coming out of her coma. Vic pleaded, telling her the city was falling apart without her and she had to get better. Vic changed into the Question, once again taking his rage out on criminals. Robbers were hanging a man over the edge of a building because he didn’t know how to open his office’s safe. Question promised them that if he fell, they’d follow. They dropped the man to his death and question beat them after a short brutal fight. He broke one man’s arm, and the man stumbled, holding on to the edge of the building with one hand. He pleaded for his life, and Question said he warned him about dropping the man. Question began to walk away, but couldn’t go through with it and pulled the criminal to safety before decking him. Alvin met with tot, saying that during his world travels he fell in with a shaman in the Congo who trained him in magic, and convinced him that his comic books, alongside those like Captain America, were what won the war. The shaman’s tribe practiced sympathetic magic, drawing pictures of game animals and throwing spears at them to ensure a successful hunt, and Alvin came to the conclusion he’d pulled off similar magic by making comics about America defeating the Axis. Vic was fascinated by his story, and pointed to a page in Stars & Stripes where their sidekick Betsey Ross had been turned into a zombie by the Nazi Baron Von Hunn, until Captain stars restored her to normal with an antidote. He gave Alvin a picture of Myra Connelly and asked if he’d redraw the page, swapping out Betsey Ross’ image with Myra’s. Izzy asked if he’d gone mad, and Vic responded that the city was in shambles, and Myra needed to recover, so he was willing to try anything. Alvin drew the comic page, and Vic went to the hospital, climbing to the rooftop and meditating on the picture all night long. The next day the doctors gave Myra another shot of adrenaline and she miraculously woke up.

(Question I #28-30) - Mayor Fermin’s absence plunged Hub City into chaos, with the Huns and their rival biker gang the Grinning Ghosts fighting for control of the city. Supplies were no longer reaching Hub, and food was scare everywhere. Vic told Aristotle he was going to do something about it, and Aristotle told him beating people up in the streets was helping no one. He told Vic he was getting off on violence more and more lately and needed to return to his job as a reporter, but vic left the house without responding to him. Vic and Myra talked about the sad shape of the city, and she was determined to restore the rule of law. They went for a drive through the city when a group of men hurled a cinderblock at their car, demanding food. Vic was ready for a fight, but Myra said she understood the concerns of her constituents and wanted to talk to them. She sent vic on an errand, and as Question he snuck into the Huns headquarters and kidnapped their leader Loosh O’Fry, saying Myra wanted a sitdown with him. Lady Shiva, who’d traveled to Hub City because it’s state of lawlessness made it the perfect place to hone her craft, ran into them. She offered her services to Loosh, who said he’d gladly pay her to take out Question. Shiva told Question she hoped he’d been honing his martial arts, otherwise the next few seconds were going to be boring for her. Shiva found Question to be no match for her, saying he’d lost his flow and seemed to have forgotten everything Richard Dragon had taught him. She told him that if he didn’t fight harder she was going to kill him, but the Huns caught up with their leader and Loosh told them to kill Question and Shiva. Shiva agreed to team up with Question, saying he was no longer a worthy opponent and she still needed stimulation. They easily prevailed and Question delivered Loosh to Myra at Harry’s Pizza. Shiva contemplated fighting him again, but he told her he had obligations to attend to. He had to get Benjy flooper of the Grinning Ghosts to join Myra’s sitdown. Floper had hijacked a KBEL children’s show to talk up his gang, and Question realized he had a hunger for fame. He told Shiva he was going to resolve the situation without violence as Vic Sage, and Shiva was intrigued. Shiva said she’d be his backup, but would interfere if she didn’t like the plan vic came up with. Vic schmoozed Floper, saying he had star potential and promising him a meeting with Hollywood executives. He got him to Myra’s sitdown, and Myra proposed that the gangs work for her as Hub City’s police. Loosh and Floper initially refused to work with each other, but considered dividing their turf between Hub’s north and south sides. They said they needed to hammer out some details, and Vic and Myra went on a walk to give them some privacy. Vic thought Myra was crazy, but acknowledged that she didn’t have many options and vigilante justice was better than no justice. They returned to the sitdown to find Floper gone and Loosh stabbed. They took him in their car to the hospital, but were surrounded by angry Huns on their bikes. Myra and Vic tried to flee into the sewers, but the Huns soon caught them. They insisted that Floper had stabbed their boss, not them, and the Huns weren’t sure if they believed them, but agreed they could sort things out after they got Loosh to the hospital. After they reached the hospital the Huns decided to keep Myra captive and told Vic it was up to him to bring Floper to the hospital so they could deal out their brand of justice if Floper really stabbed their boss. Vic realized he was running low on options and time. Loosh had died on the ride over to the hospital, and he knew it wouldn’t be long until the Huns figured that out. Vic called out into the night for Lady Shiva, admitting his nonviolent approach had failed and begging her for help. Vic changed into Question and approached the Grinning Ghost headquarters, but was soon overwhelmed by the bikers. Shiva saved him, saying he reminded her of when she was still unfocused and taking pity on him. Question found Floper, who said he and Loosh had agreed on terms and had no idea who stabbed him. Shiva knew he wasn’t lying and Question said he couldn’t hand Floper over to the Huns if he was innocent. Shica reminded him that that would mean Myra’s life would be forfeit and told him morals made life overly complicated. They took Floper to the hospital, with Question saying he’d figure out what to do when they arrived. The threat had been defused by Myra, who told the Huns she was going to get them high and then giving them ether rags. The hospital sent out Loosh’s body as a John Doe and gave Myra a cover story, that Loosh had recovered, stole some drugs, and left the hospital. Vic confronted Harry, saying he knew he’d killed Loosh during the sitdown at his pizza joint because Loosh and his gang had raped his sister. Vic said he wasn’t going to turn Harry in, telling Harry it was up to him to determine how guilty he felt and what punishment, if any, he deserved.

(Question I #31) - Mayor Fermin called a city council meeting, with Vic Sage reporting on the event. The governor responded to Fermin’s request for help and dispatched the National Guard to supplement the Hub City police, and Fermin decided to demolish Hell’s Acres. The public housing units had long been abandoned by law-abiding citizens and had become a haven of crime and drug use. Vic questioned why she was being proactive instead of leaving Hell’s Acres to rot, and she responded that keeping it going cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and it was emblematic of the Hellhole Hub City had become. Vic briefly lived in Hell’s Acres as an adolescent, and wanted to discuss the issue more with Fermin and Aristotle over coffee. Aristotle was firmly on Fermin’s side, saying Hell’s Acres symbolized a lot of what was wrong with modern American cities, throwing money at a problem without thinking about it. The next day Vic watched as construction workers backed by armed guardsmen evacuated Hell’s Acres and prepared it to blow. An addict named Hooley Slavyert came out with a gun to protect his turf and was fatally shot. Izzy O’Toole, still saddled with the position of acting police chief, asked Vic if he’d been in contact with the Mayor, saying she’d been missing for hours. Fermin had been kidnapped and shot up with heroin by drug dealers who hoped that would keep the National Guard from detonating the building. Unfortunately the man they sent to inform the Guard was Hooley Slavyert. Vic went to check the building on a hunch as the Question, and Fermin managed to escape her captors, though in her drugged state she couldn’t find her way out of Hell’s Acres. Question found her minutes before the slated demolition, and took her to an abandoned section of water pipes, allowing them to survive the blast. They were exhilarated to still be alive, and passionately kissed, finding a moment of tenderness in their lives that always seemed on the edge of ruin.

(Question I #32) - Vic interviewed Mayor Fermin about her neighborhood watch initiative, and before they went on the record she told him she appreciated having an intimate moment with him, and hinted that she might consider rekindling their relationship after she’d served her term as mayor. Fermin told vic that her only concern with the neighborhood watch was that some of them were armed, and things were too chaotic to gather crime statistics, but Izzy O’Toole said he had a gut feeling they were helping. Myra said Question had been hovering around her life for years and she had a feeling Vic could get her in touch with him. Vic wondered if she realized he was the Question, and told her he’d consider contacting him. Question patrolled the streets and busted up a drug den. One man claimed he wasn’t an addict, but was there for his fourteen year old brother to bring him home. Question let him go, but the moment he turned his back the man tried to stab him. Question disarmed him, and put the knife up to his throat. He was consumed with anger and considered what it would feel like to take a human life, but calmed himself down and knocked the man out with a punch. Question realized this was the second incident in recent memory that he’d been tempted to kill, and wondered if he was getting too close to the edge. The neighborhood watch pressed Vietnam vet William Palmer into joining, and when they approached a drug den they were fired upon. Palmer’s PTSD kicked in and he entered the den, gun ablaze, shooting an innocent boy to death before committing suicide.

(Question I #33) - Mayor Fermin was driving around with her daughter Jackie when her car broke down. Harold, a brilliant hunchback who’d run away from home, offered his assistance and fixed her car.  Fermin needed to stop by her office and was shocked to find her security guard dead with his head caved in. Fermin had discovered Judge Whelperson was on the take, and demanded he resign or have his crimes exposed. The judge had murderer Cathy Fergosi released on his own recognizance and recruited him to kill Myra. Harold helped Myra avoid Cathy, leading to a cat-and-mouse game in the office until Harold managed to trap Cathy in the building’s elevator. Question arrived, saying he’d come to save her but she told him he was too late. Jackie gave Harold a medal she’d gotten in school, and he gladly accepted her gift before returning to the road.

(Question I #34) - Mayor Fermin had a nightmare about being torment by demons in Hell, and awoke exhausted. She realized she still felt immense guilt about her own perceived moral failings and her role in Reverend Hatch’s death. Fermin desperately needed someone to talk to and rang up Vic. Aristotle answered the phone, not thrilled to have been woken up, and told her Vic was out on one of his nighttime excursions. Myra called Doctor Bohling, a psychiatrist, and scheduled a session. Bohling drugged her and tried to rape her. She gave him a beating and was unnerved how rotten Hub city was that a predator could pose as a doctor. At home Fermin wished she could cry, but a numbness accompanied her sadness. Richard Dragon visited her home, telling Myra he could help her restore order to Hub City.

(Question I #35) - Richard Dragon told Fermin he needed to find Vic, and described his time training him. Dragon said he tried to help Vic move past the rage and chaos in his life to find his true self, but feared he’d failed. He hoped to help Vic reach the next stage in his life, which Dragon said would help him move on to the next stage of his own life as well. The visited Rodor, who said he hadn’t seen Vic in days. He admitted Vic went out on nights on citizen patrol, and while he claimed to be maintaining order in the city tot knew he was getting off on committing violence. Myra and Dragon drove around looking for Vic and found the scene of his car accident. Vic Sage was in a car accident, and Melly Warder, one of the thugs who rolled him afterwards, found his Question gear and donned it. As “Question” he shot the owner of a Christmas tree farm. He shot up a bodega before breaking into Rodor’s house and robbing him. Lt. Izzy O’Toole caught up with him and shot him in the chest. Melly managed to flee, but soon died of his injuries. Izzy took off his mask and was incredulous that the man who’d set him on the straight and narrow turned to crime. He was ready to cry, both for being betrayed and believing he’d killed Question. Dragon and Myra found the badly injured Vic hiding in the church where his mother had abandoned him as a child. He said he had a vision of his mother, and she’d told him the way to solve his crisis in life was to leave behind Hub City for good.

(Question I #36) - Myra wanted to drive Vic home, but her car had been destroyed by vandals. A man approached them swaddling an infant begging for money. Myra noticed the child was dead and the man said he’d hoped they wouldn’t notice before dumping the little body in a trashcan. The incident catalyzed how rotten Hub City had become for them. Richard Dragon rose from his wheelchair and seated the still delirious Vic. Richard explained that when Vic sought training from him his nature would have seen Richard Dragon as a threat and someone to be defeated if he was at his peak. His mental control over his body allowed him to remain handicapped from a time until he no longer needed to be. Fermin found someone had set her office on fire, and the fire department was no longer operating so she decided they should return to Aristotle's house. They came across Izzy O’Toole, still sitting by the body of the fake Question. He’d realized that the imposter was in jail when the cowboy bounty hunters came to town to fight Question, so he realized he was a fake. At Aristotle’s Izzy put Vic into bed and said he realized that if Melly robbed Vic it meant he was the Question, and asked why he’d chosen to become a vigilante. Vic said putting on the mask let him act the way he felt on the inside and admitted that in recent days he questioned more and more who he really was. Izzy said he wanted to go bust some heads and left to patrol. Myra told Vic she loved him, which she realized neither of them had ever said to the other, even in the heat of passion. Everyone woke the next day and Vic and Myra celebrated Christmas by playing in the snow. Vic reiterated that they had to leave, telling Fermin there was nothing she, he or anyone else could do for Hub because it was beyond helping. They picked up Myra’s daughter Jackie, and the nun at her school begged Myra to take some of the orphans at her school away from Hub City, but Myra said they didn’t have room. Richard Dragon arranged for a helicopter to pick them up, and Lady Shiva was aboard. She told Vic she wanted to test herself against the anarchy of Hub City and would be taking his place. Myra had a change of heart and told Vic she had to stay and asked him to watch over Jackie. She said she had a responsibility and duty to help her constituents even if it was hopeless. She told Vic she loved him again before leaving.

Myra Fermin received a profile in Question Annual #2.

Myra had a cameo in Question I #37.

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