People who were disappointed or can't wrap their heads around this book weren't following Frank Miller's career back then. Everything he and Varley did in this book was a straight follow-up to his previous work on Sin City: Hell & Back.
I wonder if this comic is one of the reasons they made it a running thing in a recent comic Bruce has problems identifying obvious criminals when it comes to younger kids and crimes. Basically, the explanation is he was so traumatized by his own thing he couldn't imagine a kid DELIBERATELY doing something remotely similar. It's a handwave but it appeals to Batman's weird brain without making him look stupid to what's obvious to us.
Crazy Uncle Frank: "So how'd you like the book I wrote and drew?" "That's not writing and drawing. I've seen writing and drawing. What you did in there was pure chaos."
A fun story but a greater introduction to the Batman comics to new readers. Or at least the second or third comic for new readers. Awesome video as always bro 🤙 I’d love to see you continue your history of Batman series 🤙
The original Dark Knight Returns also had really bad artwork, stop lying to yourselves. The panels are a mess and the art is using the fact that it's supposed to be "gritty" as a crutch for looking bad.
I tried to collect all of no man's land then I learned it was 80 some issues and I started buying doubles by accident cuz they're so many..I stopped at 30 some issues @hoodwood_comics
In The Batman (2004) episode: Rumors, it was meant to be the animated debut of Hush. But for unknown reasons, he was replaced Rumor, a cheap ripoff of Lock-up.
Hush was not the first time a Clayface posed as Jason Todd to manipulate Batman's emotions. Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle did that stunt in Detective 606, twelve years before Hush.
Absolutely true! It was definitely the first time the concept of the gimmick was used, but not really as a plot twist. More like a plot moment that is over fairly quickly and it wasn't even one of the popular Clayfaces. Still, good catch there!
So one of the best stories told in JLA Tower of Babel who lead to one of my favorites animated films in Justice League Doom.....you claimed as bas story that ruined an obscure story about.....Rals and a snake lady....taking over Gotham by turning people into....mutants?.........OKAY what ever you say chief.....I guess DC choose POORLLYYYYY right?.......what was the name of that story I already forgot what was about and still remember every line and detail of Tower of Babel.
Spoiler warning: the ending of the egg baby episode was super memorable. basically at the end the software of the egg baby was analyzed to punish the students that put the egg in a corner by grading the enrichment activity the A.I. estimates. and Terry and his partner were the best parents in the class.
It's only bad to people who's brains are poisoned by autotune and fornite. We have plenty of buttoned up comics to read we need the type of stuff that goes off the rails.
Thanks a lot for this review, it feels great to watch someone review it objectively without constantly calling it "overrated". With the amount of newer fans throwing dung daily as this storyline, how can it be overrated anymore? If anything, it became underrated as years passed by... I'll be honesty, up until the Arkham games came out, I was a pretty big Batman fan, but since I lived in France it wasn't easy to get my hands on the comic books in English. I owned a few random Batman comics, like the adaptation of "Mad Love", and some crossovers with Spawn (I love Spawn so much) and Superman, but nothing major. So "my" Batman was the one from the movies, from Batman:TAS (I had every episode on VHS) and the Justice League cartoons & the rest of the DCAU ("Static Shock", "Batman Beyond", "The Zeta Projected"... I would buy VHS tapes and ), from Matsuda's 2004 "The Batman" (who, interestingly, wanted to make a "Batman vs Hush" movie after "Batman vs Dracula", but the studio wanted him to make movies pitting Bruce Wayne against various classic monsters like Frankenstein's monster or the Mummy, not a recent Bat-rogue like Hush) to Nolan's Batman Begins & *The Dark Knight* ... This movie, and Heath Ledger's Joker in particular, really reignited my love for Batman, so when just one year later *Arkham Asylum* came out, damn... I still remember watching the trailer with my friends, and how hyped we were. I started to buy some classic Batman stories like the Killing Joke, the Long Halloween, Frank Miller's TDKReturns, the 2008 Joker by Brian Azzarello (which was a follow up to the much superior, IMHO, "Lex Luthor: Man of Steel" from 2005), but it wasn't until 2011 with the video game *Arkham City* that I became aware of the character Hush (still my favorite side mission of the whole game) and I immediately bought the collected edition of *Batman:Hush* Much like you, the drawings blew my mind and it was pure joy to read, and sure the mystery felt shallow (especially since that Arkham City mission spoiled it for me) but I still loved it. Like you, I loved how Bruce reacted at the end when Selina told him _hush..._ before kissing him, showing the mental effect that this adventure took on him... My only real issue? Something that I would tweak? When Batman punched Riddler in the interrogation room, I wish that the riddle Batman told him wasn't "what time is it when an elephant sits on your fence" etc etc I really wish he had tied it all together by asking *"What belongs to you but others use more than you do?"* (a riddle that Nygma himself asks Amanda Waller in the badass little movie "Batman: Assault on Arkham" from 2014) It would have been so cool, he wouldn't even had needed to explain more, just say "exactly" and leave after Nygma says "You name. Everyone knows that one. It's worthless." And while Batman leave (after punching him, or not) we could see Riddler losing his mind in the back... When it comes to Tommy Elliot, I'm partial to Paul Dini's *Heart of Hush/Hush Money/House of Hush* series. I also liked him in "Gates of Gotham" "Hush Returns" is a weird one, it's entertaining I'll give it that, but it turned one of my favorite Justice League rogues, Prometheus, into a joke that would take a long time to redeem as a real threat. And honestly, it made Tommy waaaaay too strong for no reason. Ok, essay over, keep up the good work Salazar!
My issue with Jim lee post 90s, it's all stiff poses and chests out, very rarely is it ever loose and feel like it's moving. This is why I prefer Marc Silverstein on X-Men, his work is fast, loose and feels like theirs natural poses and postures. Lee, it's just too action figures on page, detailed yes, clean yes... But so so stiff
I remember buying a harcover big book collection of hush cause I had never read it and everyone I knew was on about how great it was. And I thought it was ok, until basically the Jason Todd moment turned out to be a fake out. The plot ended as flat as a pancake that had been run over by a Zamboni machine and I realized my comic book friends were dumb.
It's pretty hard to find these days but there's an audiobook produced by Graphic Audio that's a really good condensed version of this story cutting out a lot of the fat and filler
Even though I'm grateful to Batman: Hush for getting me more into the Batman comics, I won't deny that the story is somewhat overrated, especially looking back at the story after many years I can see that this story had so much potential that was sadly wasted. And yeah, I can definitely agree that Batman: Hush paved the way for the Batman comics storytelling going downhill from there.
I see a lot of comparisons to Spider-Man. Terry has more of the “bad boy” persona which is why he’s a bit cooler imo, bc he literally is like a cool guy & peters kind of a nerd. (Nun wrong with nerds)
This is the textbook definition of a guilty pleasure book because when you look at Tommy's insane plan, it relies on alotta cheating and it's too much, but thankfully Jim Lee is one of the biggest titans in the industry and still going strong.
If the original plan was thst Hush was supposed to be Jason then maybe that is why they latter reavled that Jason was involed in Hush's plan and that during the fight at the cementary when he went into the curch he swapped places with Clayface.
I think Hush is kind of like that nostalgic 80s or 90s cult classic gets a 2020 remake. Sure you want to like it cause it's hitting on all the favorite notes - you get Batman versus Superman, Batman versus Joker, Batman and Catwoman are finally Boyfriend and Girlfriend, Batman swordfights with Ras. It's all the classics but has none of the substance that the originals had. It's Jeph Loeb at his most average storytelling - "Yeah I want to pull out all the stops, do this, do that" and then he realizes he's written himself into a corner, pulls a wildcard that we never would have guessed when we were all solving the mystery and then goes "yep I wrote a mystery no one could solve it I"m a genius," when in reality . . . it was just a bad ending with some cool moments along the way.
Truth be told, by this era I had long stopped buying Batman (or any DC and Marvel IP's) but would still browse issues once in awhile in stores. My impression was.....basically, Hush is "what if Batman was an early '90s Image Comic?"
Hush is a story that's better for new fans to the Batman comic mythos. Once you've been reading various Batman stories from the prior years, you see more cracks in the story than when you first read it. I agree that it is more style over substance, but there is a degree of substance. If it hadn't been tampered with by the higher-ups at DC, it could have been a story for the ages. Agree with the last couple minutes of this video as to the consequences of the comic. Hope you're doing well man. Looking forward to when you get to Paul Dini's run on Detective Comics.
