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Warning: Numerous spoilers for the Batman story Hush follow.
Four of the nine otherBatmanHush issues shipped that year were also in the top ten.
Two decades and two imprint-wide reboots later, Hush is as popular as ever.
different book-length edition of the story to be published since 2004.
According to Lee, Hush brought significant numbers of both new readers and relapsed fans into comics.
It was a smart move on paper.
Was the famously wealthy Wayne family somehow involved with making chemical weapons?
The plot tracks the sudden reappearance and subsequent murder of Bruce Waynes hitherto never-mentioned childhood chum Thomas Elliot.
In our world, deducing that Elliot is the eponymous madman of Hush is painfully easy.
Its a safe bet that the new villain will be the one character nobody has ever heard of before.
In the world of the story, however, its all but impossible to figure out.
Its tough to find the answer in the details if the details undermine the actual story.
Its possible some of these problems could have been glossed over with better writing.
), nonsensical similes (how exactly would a defoliate look like lipstick?
), and reversed idioms (people in ice water want Hell).
make a famously brilliant tactician sound like hes auditing an Intro to Psych course at Gotham High.
Now, everybody has a gimmick is a fitting coup de grace.
His artistic and narrative sophistication is perhaps best illustrated in Hushs lush, frame-worthy full- and multi-page spreads.
Itll take another six pages before Batman realizes that she absconded with the money.
And in the end, its the art and not the story it supports that is Hushs true legacy.
Its also completely unnecessary.
The original Loeb-Lee story has had a good run.
Unlike its infamous supposedly dead characters, its time for DC to let it rest in peace.
