Frequently Asked Questions, Volume 2

'Were you followed' she asked.

'Are you serious'

'Of course. We are not in London now.'

'No, I don't think so.'

'You said you had questions.'

Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies

"Yemi. Forgive me. I should have listened to you. You were right. I didn't mean to do what I did."

"The work being done in this place is important, Eko. It is more important than anything, and it is in danger. You must help John. He has lost his way. You must make him take you to the question mark. John will not want to show you, so you must make him, Eko. There are many distractions, brother, but you must move past them. What is done is done. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Yemi."

"And, Eko? Bring the axe."

Lost, Season 2, Episode 21: ?

Rob Kovitz's even more eagerly awaited supercut extravaganza, Frequently Asked Questions, Volume 2, is the continuation of his epistemological-ontological-metaphysical-montage-appropriation-detective-spy-mystery-thriller-courtroom procedure caper, in which every text selection includes the word question, but much funnier than that sounds (though not any shorter). In two volumes.

This second volume continues the plan outlined in the first, the commentary itself being somewhat denser ... That may be frustrating to some, but a commentator's first aim should be, not to provide ready-made answers to all possible questions at whatever level of generality, but to help his users make their own attempts to do so. Meanwhile ... a distinctly personal, not to say visceral response is still preferred by many scholars.

G. S. Kirk, Preface (The Iliad: A Commentary, Volume 2, Books 5-8)

Mature audiences only

2.0 out of 5 stars

This graphic novel, a collection of the comic books, needs a warning label.

I'm sure some will enjoy the gritty, cynical, graphic, and unremittingly liberal plot lines, but I wasn't one of them. The scratchy artwork was interesting at first, but soon, for me, became tiring, almost as if it were a caricature of comic book art. If it had a redeeming quality, it was in the fact that there wasn't a super-power in sight. But, eventually, I began to wonder how many times the Question can be beaten into unconsciousness and still remain alive.

-BarClay

Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan, The, Vol. 2: Poisoned Ground

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