A work of art
If I had to give an epithet to Batman Hush it would be: perfect. For me the graphic novel made by the team Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee and Scott Williams is a work of art that all Batman fans must have. The introduction made by Jeph Loeb in the graphic novel shows the dedication these three men had when doing it, and how they realized how important this story was going to be.
The story begins with Batman on a mission to rescue a boy that has been kidnapped by Killer Croc, during the operation Batman realizes that this kind of things is something that Killer Croc wouldn’t have made, so he thinks who’s behind the operation. Who’s the real brain of all this. At the beginning it seems that Catwoman is behind all this but his investigations will take to somebody that is moving the strings, somebody we have never seen before, but is someone who knows Batman very well and won’t stop until defeat him.
This story isn’t that dark, the hero doesn’t move in the scum of Gotham as much as in other comics we have seen, here we have a romance between Batman a Catwoman that brings some emotional stability to the hero in some stages of the story. She even helps inside the Batcave and in the investigation. We have some flashbacks in the past of Bruce Wayne and his friend Thomas Elliot when they were children, some allies like Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Huntress, Oracle or Dick Grayson and Tim Drake.
And we have a good selection selection of villains in this graphic novel like Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, Clayface, Harley Quinn, Joker or even Lex Luthor as President of USA.
The script made by Jeph Loeb makes this story very attractive and interesting maybe he gave a clue of who was that new enemy very soon, something that makes him lose a lot of attractive. An easy story to read and you don’t need to go to other arcs to know what’s going on. Jim Lee’s art it’s perfect for this kind of story full of details and a lot of good techniques we normally don’t see in comics very often. I also emphasize the Alex Sinclair’s good job in the right use of the colors to not wrinkle all the work of Jim Lee. My recommendation is that you have to pick this graphic novel if you want to have one of the best stories of Batman ever made.
