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So just how " meta " is Batman # 158 : Hush 2 by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee ? Bleeding Cool grok in …. ( BatSpoilers )
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In ten day fourth dimension . Jeph LoebandJim Leeare returning to the pool forHush 2inBatman#158 , twenty - plus years on . Tommy Elliot was a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne who attempt to murder his own parent and inherit their fortune , but Bruce Wayne ’s father save Elliot ’s female parent ’s life . Tommy grow up to become a neurosurgeon and tries to destroy Bruce Wayne … and Batman . Thought drown , the 20th - anniversary reprint establish that he survived … and yes , Hush 2feels like a John Cash snap , an act of desperation . But how much do they admit it ? Quite a lot , from what I read . This is not just a sequel but a sequel about sequels .
The comic , as we have seen in previews , has Batman sell with a Joker who is committing old crimes , poisoning reservoir , Joker fish , and the lot . But why is a Batman varlet who strived for originality stuck on repeats ? A flake like Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb are ? Both dropped into the drink …
We have a Joker rescued from the water by The Silence , working for Hush , whose powers suggest anything but , deafening the clown prince of crime , before dragging him off and leaving a , well , clown horseshoe behind .
While it is Talia Ghul , mother of Damian Wayne , who rescues Batman , economise his life and then just nick off in a chopper , without a buy your leave .
While Batman render to the Batfamily in Batgirl ’s Gotham Clock Tower with a case and a cue brake shoe …
The Joker , however , is tortured by Hush , as if that will get him anywhere . But this is where other panorama of the Batman and Joker legends return key .
Because Batman follows the cue on the show to an desolate circus fairground and encounter himself struggle his way through a Charles Francis Hall of mirror …
Because all this is done in the manner and fashion , using the locations and imaging of primarily , Batman : The Killing Jokewith just a soupcon ofBatman : Death In The Family … which is all over Batman # 159 . Hush is punishing the Joker for his crimes against Jason Todd , Barbara Gordon and Jim Gordon explicitly , strictly because Bruce Wayne , the boy he grow up with , wo n’t . So Hush is doing the Book of Job for Batman … Hush was in the first place fake - teased as the bring back Jason Todd , Robin II back from the dead , until DC Comics would later do that for real . Are there standardised teases to be played out in the sequel?Batman # 158byJeph Loeb , Jim LeeandScott Williamsis issue on the 26th of March .
BATMAN # 158(W ) Jeph Loeb ( A / CA ) Jim Lee , Scott WilliamsTHE HOTLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE SMASH - HIT STORYLINE ! Jeph Loeb ! Jim Lee ! An all - new larger-than-life saga begin here . Hush returns ! Retail : $ 4.99 In - Store Date : 3/26/2025
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