Batman: Hush

it's beyond me he's one of the worst G.I. Joe's ever made there is an October Guard who's like the Russian version of G.I. Joe there's a lady character her name is like D-Day or something she's getting a figure and they're making a new character that's a medic for the Dreadnoughts who is a vet he looks so cool he's pretty freaking cool he comes with like medicine for dummies like Gameboy like he's clearly he's not all there So there was a special influencer event with Mattel showing off their new DC offerings that are going to launch in January.

The only thing that they're allowing pictures of that was supposed to be released to the public is there's a deluxe Batman Hush set, or Batman from Hush, that's $100.

It's Batman, a rooftop, and the rooftop steams, and it comes with a bat signal.

The rest of the figures were not supposed to be leaked, but everybody leaked them anyways.

... to other pieces.

Like, especially when you're building a leg and it's made of, like, several pieces, and it's where does this go, or where does that go? But they've got a, they've just announced a Batman Hush figure.

Oh, have they?

And, yeah, and a Catwoman.

Uh, the cape looks really well done.

Um, and there's the, the Hush Batman and Catwoman, which, uh, are already out and available, which look really, really good.

Um, there's the same Transformer stuff.

We saw this.

But I do appreciate that they exist because they're, they look good and they're reasonable prices, and I, I'm glad that other people like them.

But we've got a bunch of stuff.

We've got, um, we've got a Hush Batman.

We've got a Hush Nightwing over here.

And then he's like, hey, guys, check out this first premium format collector edition figure we're putting out.

And son of a bitch if it isn't Hush Batman on a rooftop with a smokestack that actually emits smoke and also has a working bat signal.

And Batman has a wire cape that you can pose.

And it's a box set at $100.

So what is Hush Batman?

Hush was a Batman miniseries.

Killing Joke was a one-off issue.

Exactly.

They stop attacking the armor and start attacking the man inside it, which brings us to 2003 and the blockbuster storyline Batman: Hush.

Yes.

If The Long Halloween is a slow burn noir, Hush is a high octane summer blockbuster.

Oh, for sure.

It's written by Jeph Loeb again, but this time paired with the explosive iconic artwork of Jim Lee.

Not at all.

The Popverse text highlights a massive vulnerability at the dead center of this narrative, a tactical disadvantage that fundamentally breaks Batman's usual strategies.

Yeah

... to this, and I'm referring to Hush, which we covered in a prior episode, I think mileage will vary about how successful the stories are from a pure mystery perspective and, and the payoff here.

Very curious to get your take on this.

It's, it's so weird because I'm about to spoil the book.

... deny the reality of, of that, even if, as you really scrutinize it, maybe we have more questions than answers.

So I, I can't deny the sort of the impact of, of that reveal.

We talked about this a lot when we went through Hush again recently because I've, I've had a journey with that.

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Uh, or I'm just, yeah, I don't know.

I'm, I'm trying to think too of, like, any, you know, like, Hush, Jim Lee, he's very intricate.

W- if, if you did, like, an opposite look, what would that look like? If you did the Hush story-

Tim Sale [laughs].

Yeah, like Tim Sale did that, or y- like, or if Jim Lee did the Long Halloween.