Tales From The Dark Multiverse: Batman Hush #1

Writer: Phillip K. Johnson / Artists: Dexter Soy and Sergio Fernandez Davila / DC Comics These tie-ins don’t miss!! I can’t believe I’m saying this for like the fourth week in a row, but we’ve got another fire Metal tie-in that entertains as much as it frightens. I’m a proud Batman hater. I say it with my chest, often. The Caped Crusader is cool, but he’s just…everywhere. The market is oversaturated and I’m usually looking for other things to read. Reasons why I wasn’t really looking forward to a Batman-centered comics event. But they’ve proven me wrong time and time again throughout this whole thing, and I am not afraid to admit it. Tales From the Dark Multiverse felt like DC’s version of What If? It’s bookended by an omnipotent celestial being named Tempus Fuginaut who narrates the story for us. It’s told in a pretty straightforward manner with some twists, turns and Easter eggs pointing to the original Hush storyline and some of Gotham’s favorite characters. In general, they were all really fun to see. 

Even though Johnson tries to stretch out the mystery, it’s no surprise who this ‘Batman Hush’ is. But how he became this version of the Caped Crusader will shock you. Its dark themes are consistent with every twisted version of Batman we’ve come to know over the course of the Metal events. Maybe the way this issue was framed, longer than most (clocking in at a whopping fifty pages), with the emotion of it all. It just hit different. I was not expecting to feel this way a…