Showing posts with label Scarecrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scarecrow. Show all posts

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Batman – Hush | Comics

Batman goes up against a mysterious foe who send him up against Catwoman, Joker, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy and even Superman!

To save a kidnapped boy from the clutches of Killer Croc after tracking him down Batman goes and have a brief fight with his captor but before S.W.A.T. team arrives, the ransom money is surprisingly stolen by Catwoman, who remained unnoticed to everyone else. The Dark Knight however, sees her trail and starts to give a chase over the rooftops.

In mid air, someone cut his Bat-Line from the shadows and caused him to fall on ground from a great height. He receives a severe damage to skull and couldn't move at all while landing on the vile streets of Crime Alley. When he was falling to his uncertain fate, she was completely unaware of it and ran off with the money to hand it over to Poison Ivy.

Unable to even move a muscle, Batman is surrounded by street thugs and Oracle sends out a distress signal to fellow vigilantes for his rescue. Fortunately Huntress was nearly and she responds to the emergency signal by arriving to rescue The Bat as soon as she could. She fought her hardest to a standstill until transportation was sent to their location.

She puts his body inside the Batmobile and it takes off before she leaves too in her motorcycle, as someone watches over and makes remark about the importance of friends in life. In Batcave, Alfred Pennyworth patches him up and a near-unconscious Bruce tells him thorough Morse code to call his childhood friend Thomas Elliot.

Tommy Elliot is a renowned neurosurgeon of the world and a close personal friend of Bruce Wayne, who performs a brain surgery on him to save his life. When slightly recovered, he starts investigating about the fall and confronted Killer Croc again in Arkham Asylum. Croc didn't respond very well and was seemingly more agitated than his usual self.

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Batman – Hush | Comics

He then unexpectedly proceeds to break out of his cell to make an escape upon tossing out everyone on his way. Batman immediately goes after him but the tire of Batmobile was shot during this chase, which threw him off the track for a brief time. Croc has gotten his hands onto Catwoman and he was about to off her for stealing his money.

She was saved at the last moment by the Caped Crusader and Selina reveals that she stole the money for Ivy in a mind-controlled state. These two head over to Metropolis for further investigation only to encounter Poison Ivy with a mind-controlled Superman at her side. It took almost everything for The Dark Knight just to restrain Man of Steel.

The duo gets back to Gotham City to gather at an Opera as Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle without knowing each other's secret identity, along with Tommy Elliot and Leslie Thompkins. The stage is taken by Harley Quinn and her masked henchmen, so Batman had to intervene but she goes all out guns blazing and Catwoman ended up getting shot.

Changing back to his cowl, Batman chases after Harley hears a gunshot outside, which led him to The Joker looming over the lifeless body of his pal Tommy Elliot. In a violent fit of rage, he viciously beats the clown down with an inch of his life and both Selina and Commissioner Jim Gordon finally managed to stop him from crossing the line.

Following the funeral for Tommy, Nightwing came to see Bruce and they go out to stop the Riddler after an armored car robbery. At this point, Bruce and Selina both knew about their dual life as they have chosen to trust each other with their secret.

Trails from Lazarus Pit lead him to seek attention of Ra's al Ghul by kidnapping his daughter Talia al Ghul following a showdown between the two while Lady Shiva savagely beats down Catwoman to a pulp. A run-in with Scarecrow causes Huntress to turn against Selina and Harvey Dent makes a surprising return, who is no longer Two-Face.

Batman is suspicious about a resourceful new mysterious enemy working from shadows who is responsible for his allies and enemies to acting weird and out of their characters. This is someone who knows a lot about him and he cannot even trust his allies now. Plus, a person believed long-dead from past makes a surprise return to haunt him.

For more information on Batman – Hush storyline, you can check out these links below.

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Against Unknown Foe

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"Hush" is a 2002 milestone epic Batman storyline created by two comic-book legends; writer Jeph Loeb (Batman – Dark Victory, Catwoman – When in Rome) and superstar artist Jim Lee (Superman – For Tomorrow, X-Men – Mutant Genesis) that is collected in issue #608-619 from the original monthly ongoing Batman series from DC Comics.

This is a tour in modern-day Gotham City with The Dark Knight exploring a dark chapter of his life, questioning new stand of his old friends and foes. His trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth, regular crime-fighting partners Nightwing, Robin and Oracle, old friend James Gordon, Leslie Thompkins, Huntress and even Harold Allnut showed up throughout the plot.

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Mystery of Hush

Other notable characters such as Suicide Squad director Amanda Waller, Green Lantern Alan Scott, Lex Luthor, Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen, reporter Lois Lane and her boss Perry White, his former love-interest Talia al Ghul made special appearances. Then there was someone who came back visiting from the grave and beyond.

Story and artwork of this tale are absolute praiseworthy, which is why this saga is considered as one of the best Batman graphic novel of all time. While building up its own complication "Hush" also developed pathway for upcoming "Under The Hood" storyline that awaits a major revelation on an unresolved past mystery, bound to shake things up.
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Sunday, November 2, 2003

Batgirl – Year One | Comics

Young Barbara Gordon went from police Captain James Gordon's daughter to costumed vigilante hero Batgirl!

Barbara Gordon is a college graduate who is a computer-genius and after completing her college, she now wants to join the Gotham City Police Department following the footprints of her father Captain James Gordon. After being refused to be a detective she tries to enlist herself to FBI but she got rejected again for her lack of height and younger age.

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Batgirl – Year One | Comics

Seeing traditional means of crime-fighting opportunities as an off-limit for her, she took inspiration from the costumed vigilantes and managed to send a message to Justice Society of America's member Black Canary regarding her wish to be a sidekick but ended up receiving a negative response from her mentor Wildcat.

Deeply sorrowed by all the dead-ends of her dreams, she locked herself up in home and to console his daughter, Jim Gordon invites her to a masquerade ball. Thinking this as an opportunity she showed up in the ball in an altered version of Batman’s costume, unbeknown to her father.

Her appearance as well as the ongoing party is soon interrupted by a bankrupt ex-millionaire turned second-string super-villain named Killer Moth, who wants to kidnap one of Gotham’s elite; Bruce Wayne for ransom but fails due to Barbara’s intervention. With Barbara on his tail, a running Killer Moth dubs her ‘Batgirl’ as Batman and Robin arrives at the scene. As she continued her vigilantism, a suspicion came to her father’s mind and she received aid from the dynamic duo.

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Batgirl – Year One” was released in 2003 from DC Comics as a nine part limited series that served as a sequel to “Robin – Year One”. The plotline of the series was written by Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon (Birds of Prey, Green Arrow), whereas artist Marcos Martin and Alvaro Lopez were on the illustration duty.

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Masquerade Crime-Fighter

Martin and Lopez were praised for their dynamic drawing style, Dixon and Beatty also received positive feedback for the storyline as it became the best mini-series of 2003 in Wizard Magazine.
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Friday, September 26, 2003

Year One – Batman & Scarecrow | Comics

A new mysterious serial killer is terrorizing Gotham City and killing people with brand new method of frightening people to their death. Gotham's crime-fighting dynamic duo; Batman and Robin is trying to track him down for quite some time and ended up busting a dummy scarecrow that gave them only a handful of straw.

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Year One – Batman/Scarecrow | Comics

The Dark Knight desperately tries to find out the person before this criminally insane person causes any more death of the innocents and any possible link that would help him catch this new lunatic in town. Even all of his heightened detective skills seemed to be not enough to do that at the beginning. Still, an unrelenting Dark Knight ascended on the underground mob of Gotham like a wrecking ball.

Meanwhile, a skinny guy in a scarecrow outfit raids Gotham University's Professor Pigeon’s house, who happened to be his brightest student from college, Jonathan Crane. Having an extremely abusive childhood constantly in the hands of his fanatically religious great-grandmother for being a bastard and local bullies, Crane grew up realizing the importance fear and control as the two most powerful forces on earth.

He reveals to professor these dark aspects of his childhood as well as his days in Gotham College. Batman finds it that a guy dressing up in something horrific, going out into the night and terrifying his enemies is not an unusual term for himself and tries to dig up for clues again from the beginning of the investigation once more. With The Boy Wonder, he starts busting up the mobs of Gotham City to find some answer to this mystery.

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Scarecrow on Revenge Spree

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Year One – Batman/Scarecrow is a two part mini-series from DC Comics that depicts the origin story of the Batman’s villain Scarecrow, providing insight on how this rivalry begun at the first place and how Batman came to be as a mentor, whom The Boy Wonder was afraid of in a God-fearing way.

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The Master of Fear

Released on 2005, this two part story features the script from writer Bruce Jones (Batman – Through the Looking GlassIncredible Hulk – Return of the Monster) and indi-fan favorite artist extraordinaire Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus, The Wake), who did quite an excellent job on the book. This two-part limited series was classic re-invention of The Dark Knight facing the Master of Fear for the first time that will build their bond as vigilante/criminal in the oncoming years.
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Friday, September 19, 2003

Batman – Dark Victory | Comics

As an attempt of a peace-offering to Sofia Gigante Falcone, Pino and Umberto Maroni staged a massive breakout at Arkham Asylum to kill the former District Attorney Harvey Dent, now reformed and known as the psychotic villain named Two-Face but fails eventually. Mario Falcone approaches Bruce Wayne with a proposal to do legitimate business with Wayne Enterprises with almost no success.

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Batman – Dark Victory | Comics

Janice Porter has become the new District Attorney in Dent's absence and working alongside Commissioner James Gordon. A mysterious serial killer called the "Hungman" starts terrorizing the Gotham City by hanging corrupt police officers. Batman interrogates Edward Nygma but even The Riddler has not the slightest idea about who the killer is or who it might be.

At some point in the beginning, Two-Face was the prime suspect but even he was not responsible for these murders. A young circus acrobat Dick Grayson, who lost his parents to a mob battle that started due to circumstances of the "Hungman" killer, is later adopted by Batman to be his crime-fighting partner.

So, young Dick becomes his new trusty sidekick; Robin, The Boy Wonder. At the nick of time Commissioner Jim Gordon is saved by Two-Face from being hanged by the killer, who in fact was not a corrupted cop. Harvey Dent recruits The Joker, Scarecrow, The Penguin, The Riddler, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, The Mad Hatter and Solomon Grundy to his gang and instead of being clear, the mystery grows even gritty and darker by each passing moment.

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Dynamic Duo In Action

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Batman – Dark Victory is a fourteen issue limited series that was published by DC Comics in 2000. Writer Jeph Loeb (Batman – HushEmperor Joker) delivers the plot and artist Tim Sale (Batman – Haunted Knight, Challengers of the Unknown Must Die) served as the penciller. Dark Victory is a sequel to Batman – The Long Halloween, by the same creators. Dark Victory probably took place in the third or fourth year of The Dark Knight's crime fighting career.

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Mystery of Hungman Killer

The young Dick Grayson as Batman's protégé Robin, The Boy Wonder is given a re-telling origin. Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale again teamed up later and created a follow up storyline, Catwoman – When in Rome; following the adventures of Selina Kyle during her time in Italy.
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