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| Absolute Batman: Hush | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 23885
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 372
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 8.6 x 1.4
ISBN: 1401204260
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401204266
ASIN: 1401204260
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
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Product Description
The complete best-selling saga written by Jeph Loeb (SUPERMAN/BATMAN, Smallville) with art by fan-favorites Jim Lee Scott Williams (SUPERMAN, Uncanny X-Men) collected together for the first time in the oversized slipcase format! This slipcased edition features the two books "Hush"#151; an epic tale of friendship, trust and betrayal that spans the Dark Knight's lifetime. This Absolute edition includes an all-new cover by Lee Williams, a Jim Lee Sketchbook and issue-by-issue commentary by the creative team.
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 Batman: Hush is Jim Lee's best work so far! November 6, 2005
21 out of 33 found this review helpful
Batman: Hush is Jim Lee's best work so far! Batman: Hush is the 12-part comic book story written by Jeph Loeb with stunning artwork by popular comic book artist Jim Lee! The Absolute Batman: Hush hardcover completes Jim Lee's artistic value for this series! The story is dark and very dramatic! Poison Ivy, Catwoman, Killer Croc, The Joker,Scarecrow, Ra Al'Ghul, Riddler, and Hush are all the villians in this series! It also includes a Batman's villians pin-up gallery! The book also features superheroes such as Nightwing, Robin, The Huntress and Superman! The book comes with special commentary by jim lee on the Batman: hush storyline. There is also a behind the scenes sketchbook section by Jim Lee. This is without a doubt one his best work! Highest Possible Recommendation! A++
 Comics have come a long way.... March 8, 2006
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
Batman has been reinterpreted so many times its becoming hard to zero in on the character anymore. Lately, Batman has been portrayed as an untrusting, unfriendly JERK to even his best 'friends' (Batman has no real friends in the current incarnation of the character). There is a reason storywise for portraying him this way (see Infinite Crisis) but it does make the character tiresome.
In Hush, Batman is portrayed as more of the mid-range Batman: not a friendly sort, but still caring enough to be the Batman I remember from the post Frank Miller reinvention of the 80's. Now, Hush is first and foremost a Batman story, so you will have the action and the mystery aspect- but the great thing is, Hush is a VERY mature and complex story. Layers upon layers, and you will need to read CAREFULLY to pick up all the subtlties. The reward for your efforts, of course, is a great story! Plotted much like a supense movie, the story unfolds a bit at a time, while throwing in red herrings to keep you guessing right up until the end. Loeb has written a top notch story, and Jim Lee's art is of course very nice to look at.
While I can't put Hush in the same category as Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, it is an exceptionally constructed story which stays true enough to the Batman character to be enjoyable. Any comic fan who enjoys gritty and/or dark mystery stories should check out Hush. Recommended!!
 Hush is an overrated story November 14, 2005
13 out of 40 found this review helpful
I wouldn't waste money on Hush for a few reasons.
First off why couldn't they put it in one hardcover edition then one trade then one Absolute Edition? Sounds to me like DC is milking our pocketbooks. DC has fit longer stories into one volume. Making people pay at least $50 dollars if they want this story in one book is criminal. Milk. Milk. Milk.
Secondly, Hush is the most overrated Batman story of all time! It seems there are too many villains and they seem to be put in there so Jim Lee will get a chance to draw them. Note to writer Jeph Loeb: overloading your story with characters is a poor substitute for characterization. Remember your Batman collaborations with Tim Sale? The villains were used AS NEEDED! They did their part and got offstage. Here they take up too much page time and seem thrown in there. Loeb seems to be riding on Lee's reputation as an artist here. I'm not saying I hate Lee's art but it's not appealing enough to me to buy a work of his just for the art. Maybe if this was 1994 things would be different.
The solution to the story (as does the Catwoman/Batman love affair) seems forced and comes out of left field. There's none of the mysterious tension from Loeb's earlier Catwoman appearances; Long Halloween and Dark Victory.
This story didn't deserve DC's Absolute Edition treatment. There are better Batman and DCU stories that deserved this treatment over the poorly done Hush; Alan Moore's Swamp Thing Run, Steve Engelhart and Marshall Roger's classic Detective run, Preacher--all are more worthy than the poorly written Hush to be given the Absolute treatment.
 Great art, bad story January 5, 2006
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
I have been out of comics for a long time and have recently rediscovered them with great excitement...as I'm older certain aspects have taken on a much greater importance mainly Story, story, story. For me at least, gone are the days where all I need was amazing art of my favorite super heros jumping from building to building. Writing has taken on a new importance SO with that being said you have to consider what is more important to you in a comic book/graphic novel the writing or the art.
If all you want is amazing art this book is perfect for you, Jim Lee is at his best and I love seeing his Batman as well as the plethora of other characters. But the story in short, was boring, uninteresting and way too crowded. As another reviewer mentioned it seems that all the interaction with the other villains and heros is so Jim can draw all them for us. I would have been just as happy with a coffee table book filled with Jim Lee images....cuz really that is all this really is.
Batman's new enemy January 30, 2006
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
In "Batman: Hush", Batman calls on an old family friend, Thomas Elliot, to help heal him after a bad fall. Soon after all of Batman's enemys begins acting in strange new ways, often pulling off crimes that normally dosn't fit their profile. Pison Ivy convinces Killer Croc and Catwoman to blackmail an important buisnessman; Harley Quinn pulls off a daring Opera hiest by her self; Joker is found over a dead man and insists that he didn't do it, ect. Behind it all is a mysterious man in bandages named Hush, but who is he. That becomes the centrel mystery behind all these baffling crimes.
This story had many suprises; like Superman falling under Poison Ivy's influence, the possible return of Jason Todd (the second Robin), and my favorite, a romance with the Catwoman. Those are my favorite parts of the book, it is so sweet, and yet because Batman and Catwoman are so different you know the relationship is doomed to fail. Catwoman's fight with Robin/Tim Drake is also wonderful. But still it is nice to see Batman trusting Catwoman with the secret that Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same person. There are a lot of suprises and relolations here, those are only the highlights.
The action and violence is actually pretrty intense and graphic, not really a very kid friendly story at all. The story itself is pretty grim, as it is dealing with childhood travesty and secrets (and for once it dosn't all revolve around Bruce Wayne). The beating that Batman gives Joker is, to put it mildly, merciless.
Great book in the Batman canon.
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