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2009.01.11

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Wait, isn't Hush just Darkman? And wasn't Darkman just Sam Raimi's rejected Shadow script where he changed the origin so he wouldn't get sued? Waitasecond was that asshole walking around with the sledgehammer at NYCC last year supposed to be Hush?

They should have 100 Bullets' Milo, The Unknown Soldier, Hush and Darkman all team up.

...to fight the alchemical hotsex of Rebis.

Rebis, of course. Jesus, this is ridiculous. Does Marvel have a bandaged face character who wears a trenchcoat? Even if you make Rebis count for all the various Negative people--ugh.

Newman Xeno, too. And Willem Dafoe in Once Upon a Time in Mexico. And... jeez there are a lot of these guys.

The earliest example I can remember of the bandaged-up protagonist was the old Bogart/Bacall noir, "Dark Passage." I'm pretty sure that's what 100 Bullets was referencing, at least.

I love the idea of Hush leading all of Gotham's children dressed like mummies in some sort of Pied Piper thing off of a pier. They should just remake Hush as the new King Tut. That'd be way cooler than this crap.

Still, as lame as this issue was, it was miles above the hilariously-failed-shock-and-awe of the Heart of Hush arc.

And I sort of smiled at Catwoman's pun on the last page, but then again I'm abnormally vulnerable to godawful puns.

I kind of admire Dini's chutzpah at brazenly lifting Patricia Highsmith's Ripley for his villain. Call me over-optimistic, but I think there's some potential pulp fun in a sociopath impersonating Bruce Wayne.

Oh, & the first bandaged protag was the Invisible Man.

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