7 Reasons Why Batman: Hush Is Completely Overrated

7. Batman: The World's Worst Detective

Batman Hush5 If we go along with the idea that Hush is a book designed for new/young Batman readers as a self-contained introduction to the character (if we don't, then Hush is simply the most pandering and least imaginative Batman book ever), it actually does a massive disservice to Batman himself. Batman is the World's Greatest Detective yet it takes him what feels like forever to figure out who Hush really is. Loeb writes him as a significantly dumber character, a long way from the World's Greatest Detective he's supposed to be, in order for him to tell his profoundly flawed story in its entirety. In order words, Loeb writes Batman deliberately out of character because if Batman were behaving truly like Batman, he'd have figured all of this out long before the end and wouldn't have spent a dozen issues and more to discover Hush's identity. The impression made on new readers would be that Batman's reputation as the World's Greatest Detective is ill-deserved because he spends most of the book reacting to his villains' badly conceived plans. In Hush, Batman is a bumbling stooge, not the brilliant detective he's supposed to be.
In this post: 
Batman
 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

I reads and watches thems picture stories. Wordy words follow. My blog is http://samquixote.blogspot.co.uk , and if you want to see all the various places I contribute to, or want to send me a message, you can find links to everything here: http://about.me/noelthorne/#