Batman Hush haunts us all with another fantastic one-shot tie-in. It's not necessary to read, but you'll regret not reading it. Read Full Review

The artwork for Tales From The Dark Multiverse " Batman Hush #1 is simply amazing. I loved seeing alternative looks for all of my favorite characters. Dexter Soy did a beautiful job of bringing them to life. The colors by Ivan Plascencia are haunting throughout the book, with the letters by Troy Peteri done splendidly. I thoroughly enjoyed the issue, and look forward to seeing what comes in the next one, which is a twist on Flashpoint! Read Full Review

This series hasn't always lived up to its potential, but this is a twist on a familiar tale that works very well thanks to the willingness of its creative team to really shake things up. Read Full Review

Tales From the Dark Multiverse: Batman Hush #1is an interesting take on an alternate Gotham. While it delivers a cool story, it was so far from what I came in expecting that it took me a moment to fully appreciate it. As long as you arent expecting a retelling of the original Hushstory I think there is a lot to love here. Read Full Review

I'm a sucker for anything with Talia Al Ghul in it. The fact that a lot of artists and authors' work is featured as either intentional Easter Eggs or a carry over from DC Executive Jim Lee's days at Marvel, the intention is good. However, the story is a bit formulaic, and what do we have after? If you like some bubble gum for the brain, it's a good read. Read Full Review

Mixing equal measures of It's a Wonderful Life and dystopian futures with heaping helpings of horror, Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush #1 is an excellent inversion of the original tale. Read Full Review

Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush is a story of detail. It absolutely could have used more pages for that. The history and training about this version of Batman is a little thin though his motivation is clear. It's something I'd like to see more of. There's a lot packed in here though as Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush is a one-shot comic you can just pick up and enjoy and ponder so much about this intriguing spin on a familiar world. Read Full Review

Hush presents an interesting, compelling universe focused around one of my favourite villains " Heart of Hush was one of the first comics I ever bought physically, and it's made me soft on the character ever since. Here, we see a fun continuation of that tone, and I'm happy that the Dark Multiverse line has returned with the same standard of quality that it had during its run last year. Read Full Review

Together with Johnson's sly alterations, this creative team uses its canvas to astound BATMAN fans with some minor imaginative twists that will blow your mind. Sure, when I see these TALES OF THE DARK MULTIVERSE issues I'm normally pretty skeptical before reading. However, I rather quite enjoyed the issue. I simply wish we got a bit more ironed out in the story. There was just so much to work with here that maybe these TALES OF THE DARK MULTIVERSE should be more than one issue to tease out more of the details? Alas, I'd still recommend giving it a try, even if it seemed more like an Else World story than a Dark Multiverse story. Read Full Review

An intriguing take on Gotham emerges from far before the famous story arc that gave this one-shot its name, leaving plenty for readers to want in this temporary universe. Read Full Review

If you're a fan of the original Hush storyline or just love alternate universe stories, this is a fun and engaging issue to pick up. Read Full Review

Some of these Dark Multiverse one-shots feel like they could use a lot more, and others felt like they didn't need to exist at all. This is one of the former, and it ends on a good note with a suitably twisted ending, but I can't help but feel like there's a lot more to see. Read Full Review

As has been the case with DC'sTales from the Dark Multiverse one-shots,Hush is a mixed bag. There's a good story in there, but it's hampered by diverging so wildly from its original source material and too many ideas being thrown on-page at once to truly connect in a cohesive narrative. Dexter Soy's art is good, but mismatched with the tone writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson is going for. Read Full Review

The biggest problem with this issue is that there is too much story to confine to one issue and the rush to get to the end takes away any emotional connection to the events. Read Full Review

While I love the art in this issue, the story seriously left me wanting more because the only things that resemble the Hush story in this issue are the inclusion of Tommy Elliot and Batman having a silly Hush costume for absolutely no reason. This could essentially be any Elseworld/Hypertime story for our Dark Knight because we don't really do much to play with the whole Hush angle in this book and for such a beloved story, I was looking for something interesting or clever to come from this, but sadly I got neither. Read Full Review

Only the most die-hard of Bat-Fans and Dark Multiverse completists need bother with this issue. It has nothing to do with the original Hush storyline, which is forgivable. The fact that it is centered around a dull protagonist and features a predictable "twist" ending is not. The by-the-numbers artwork is tolerable, but only that. Read Full Review

It's a good concept that needs more than just this one issue to play out in. Read Full Review

I've disliked most of the Tales from the Dark Multiverse, as things usually are too rushed or don't make sense. This one I liked very much. Many of the paths these characters made sense and were handled well. Writing is solid and I like how the Silenced is more of a bogeyman than a vigilante. I especially liked Richard of the Gray Sons.

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Batman Jones - Nov 8, 2020

This was the first of them that did anything for me at all and I really liked it.

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It was an interesting proposal, something loaded with characters to be a single number, many of them have no action in this number.

So good but the ending really hurt it for me.

I've never been a huge fan of the original Hush storyline, but this was a great tale of hostile bat factions battling for hold over Gotham (some cool lore as well).

I wasn't expecting to like this, but I did. There were a few rough spots, especially the explanation at the end, but overall, I had a good time reading this one.

" Hush, Little babe, and go to sleep... And may your rest be long and deep... But say a prayer, and best beware... The bloody bat of Arkham keep."

I love me a good What If story...and this series gets as close as DC will get to the What If title.

Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson (The Last God, for which I am trade waiting but have heard very good things), you have a legit What If one-shot playing with the who's and what's of the Batman story. Lots of familiar characters in unfamiliar positions. Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Todd, Joker, Scarecrow...they're all in there. It was a fun read.

Art by Soy was more than passable, too.

Just bland, nothing special or interesting here.

Pure drivel.