{"id":679,"date":"2007-07-17T09:13:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T09:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=679"},"modified":"2007-07-17T09:13:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T09:13:59","slug":"batman-hush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/17\/batman-hush\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Hush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/bathush1.jpg\" alt=\"Batman: Hush 1\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Volume 1<br \/>\nBy <strong>Jeph Loeb<\/strong>, <strong>Jim Lee<\/strong> and <strong>Scott Williams<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-84023-718-X<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/bathush2.jpg\" alt=\"Batman: Hush 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Volume 2<br \/>\nBy <strong>Jeph Loeb<\/strong>, <strong>Jim Lee<\/strong> and <strong>Scott Williams<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-84023-738-4<\/p>\n<p>These are collections of the multi-part, mega-epic that ran in <strong>Batman<\/strong> #608-619. The plot is pretty negligible, as a mysterious foe assembles all the Dark Knight&#8217;s arch-enemies to have another pop at him, and despite only introducing one new character, dares us all to guess who the mastermind can possibly be.<\/p>\n<p>Overblown, over-hyped and histrionic, it&#8217;s the perfect equivalent to the mindless, summer-movie blockbuster, technically and visually attractive but with no real meat on its bones. Such a disappointment considering the quality that all the creators are capable of producing.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is the shallow stuff that modern dreams seem made of and absolutely reeks of glitter, angst and testosterone in equal measure. Flashy and, I&#8217;m sure, a secret, guilty pleasure for many, I can only hope that as often happens, what succeeding creators do with the aftermath will make all the fuss eventual worthwhile and sensible.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 &amp; \u00c2\u00a9 2004 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Volume 1 By Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee and Scott Williams (DC Comics) ISBN: 1-84023-718-X \u00c2\u00a0 Volume 2 By Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee and Scott Williams (DC Comics) ISBN: 1-84023-738-4 These are collections of the multi-part, mega-epic that ran in Batman #608-619. The plot is pretty negligible, as a mysterious foe assembles all the Dark &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/17\/batman-hush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Batman: Hush&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batman","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-aX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}