 I'm going to preface this review by saying I know absolutely nothing about comics. I'm not a huge fan of the genre. I do enjoy it when it is very, very well done, but I'm very picky. So keep that in mind as we go into this, that I am not a comic book aficionado. I don't claim to be. I know very little about the process. I know very little about the characters in this book other than what I have seen in the movies. My full, my knowledge of Batman extends only to his theatrical universe. On with the review. Hello, everybody. E here. Welcome back to another comic book review. I've done a couple of these in the past, only when something really stands out that is really, really good or really, really bad, do I bother doing a review of a comic book series. Or when somebody sends me something for review. My friend, Lertis, he has sent me stuff. I think someone else sent me something that I never actually got to because it wasn't my deal. And just flipping through it, I was like, this is pretty bad. So if you're that person, I apologize, but I never read it. Just being honest, that's me. But today we are talking about Batman hush. The whole reason I read this, first off I got comicsology because I have so little time nowadays. I want to try and still continue reading, but and I can consume audio books and comic books about the same speed. So I'm blowing through a lot of audio books and I'm going to be going through a lot of comics, maybe two a month for you guys. I'll probably be reading more, but I won't be reviewing them all because once again, I don't know that much about comics. Maybe one day I'll get better. But what we're talking about here is the reason why I picked this one up. So there's all these rumors that the new Batman movie with Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, numerous people, numerous big name stars are going to be in the next Batman reboot called The Batman, I think. And people are speculating that this is the hush storyline because we've seen a penguin, we've seen, I don't want to spoil something else. We've seen something else that kind of spoiled it for me. People talking about it online. So if you don't know the storyline, stay away from it. You'll probably enjoy it more than I did. And I did enjoy it. I did enjoy it. Don't get me wrong. I liked it, but there are some valid complaints that I want to bring up that people are having. I both love and disliked how many characters there were in this. You got Batman, Superman, Catwoman, Huntress. Then you have Joker, Riddler, Penguin is even in a couple of frames. There's, let's see, a hush is a new villain. So many that like Killer Croc, Clayface, all these people are in this huge rogue gallery of villains. Scarecrow is in it. And I hope these aren't spoilers, but I think they're all on the cover. I'm not sure. Harley Quinn's in there. But how they all tie together is what I liked. I I'm not a huge fan of piling in this many villains. And I understood why it fit the tone and the themes of the book. I get it. They're going back to Batman's past. I understand it. But here's the thing. It just went on and on and on. There there are several sections of this comic where they're having a really cool fight and we get stuck with Batman's internal monologuing. And I think it takes away the thrill of the fights. That's my opinion. How else are you going to get this information? That's so important. They need to put it in the thoughts while he's fighting. I don't know if they could have done it better. Once again, I don't read too many comics. So is there a better way they could have done it? I don't know. What I'm saying is I enjoyed the comic book for what it was. And I do hope that this is the plot of the movie, especially because of the twist. Unfortunately, the twist was actually ruined for me because everybody I saw talking about the movie was talking about a certain character and his character arc and that literally spoils the twist of who Hush is. So please try and stay away from spoilers, because if the movie is the same as this comic series, you were I would say away from the movie. Anyway, I know Batman fans and comic book fans are mad at that already. But I would say wait for the movie because there was one. They force a red herring really, really hard. And as long as you don't know who the character is, it's fine. But if you don't, this comic book is kind of on the boring side. I did like the set pieces. I did like the action. I did like the adventure. But there were plenty of times when I was taken out of the story by the authors trying to put me deeper into the story. I know this is this sounds like I'm crapping all over this this graphic novel. I'm not. I enjoyed it. I read about two, basically two issues a day. And, like I said, I did enjoy it. But fans, I also went back and read fan reviews. And there's some very valid complaints about how many characters there are and how when you have that many characters, it takes it takes the I don't know, it takes the spotlight off of the story and it doesn't give those characters time to shine. I feel and this is another thing that I got from someone else's review. There is someone else said that. There's not enough that you shouldn't start here, which is what I did. Unfortunately, I should have read the reviews first, but I try to stay away from things like that. I'd already been spoiled. I didn't even know it. I'd already been spoiled on Twitter. But you have to know the history. You have to know they try to build up the history. But you have to know the history of Batman, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, whatever the other one, Tom, whatever. I don't I don't know. But it's all all the Robbins, all three Robbins. You have to know that history. You have to know all the history of all these roads. The road house of whatever roads, galleries, what's called all these villains. You have to know all their backstory and everything. And they try really, really hard to give you like a little little explanation and description of where these characters come from. But they do it at the most inopportune time. It's right when they're starting to fight or right in the middle of the action. And I'm like, I just want to get to the action because we all we all know who Joker is. But I don't know that I know who Scarecrow is. I don't know that I know who Clayface is. You know, I don't and Zazz, I don't know. He's not in this. I don't believe. But Zazz is a character from the video game that, you know, I don't know his backstory. So I don't know if this is like a running theme in comics. If you if you miss something, you're just, you know, S.O.L. I don't know. But I think my final thoughts here again is I enjoyed it. I had fun with it. But once I backed away from it and gave it a more critical eye and read some reviews, I was like, yeah, this really does have issues. But I'm also not the type of person to say that I'm going to change my opinion on whether or not it's good or not based on other people's opinions. Because while I was reading it, I was enjoying it. I was having fun. Does it have problems? Sure, it does. Did I notice while I was reading? No, I didn't. So if you if you want a more realistic review of I would say go over to Goodreads. Be very careful of spoilers. I would say go over to Goodreads and read some of the critical reviews, some of the three star reviews. If you want a better critical review for me, I kind of loved it. But once I step back from my name, maybe that was but I enjoyed it while I was reading and that is all that matters. So have you read Batman, Hush? Let me know down in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it, whether or not you hated it. If you loved it or hated it, tell me why you loved it or hated it so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have any you have in you. This has been another comic book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye.