I’ve finally turned the last page of the second volume of Batman: Hush. I’ve finally got to know who Hush really is… And I was right with my first guess at the beginning of the book. I always find it funny how Jeph Loeb manages to screw your head up with his story telling. There’s always something happening that will make you believe you got the wrong guy (of course, that depends if you pick the real culprit in the first place), but later in the story, he reveals a tiny detail you didn’t think of at the time, which makes you say “Damn! I should’ve thought of this!” because you knew he was going to try messing up your head… I fell for it when reading The Long Halloween and fell for it again this time, even I was expecting it. That’s what makes these books so good; you get caught up without noticing it.
I really start liking Jeph Loeb’s work, it’s the fourth book he wrote I have read and would like to read some more… They were both Batman stories though, so I wonder if his style would match other characters too. He’s written different titles for Superman, Daredevil, Spider-man, X-Men, or even Hulk… Most of the top names at DC and Marvel actually, so I might pick up one of those sometime soon just to try it out.
And as you may have guessed from the title, I’ve started reading Y the last man yesterday. This title had very good reviews and some people even mentioned it was one of the top stories in the last decade, so it really got me pumped up and eager to read it… I’ve got the complete story spread around in 10 trade paperbacks… I first thought it was going to take a while to read them all, but I managed to read the first volume in one sitting. I hope I can start the second one tonight and keep up the good pace so as to reach the end sometime around Chinese New Year… My first impressions are quite good so it should be easy to do IF I find the time to read.
So far the story is only beginning as the plot was only getting set up so I don’t have much to talk about, but for the curious ones out there, the first volume goes like this… All the men… No, scratch that… All the mammals with a Y chromosome die, at the exception of Yorick Brown (the main character) and his monkey Ampersand… So here they are, the last man and male monkey on earth, sent by the U.S. government on a crusade to find a cure to this “plague” and repopulate the planet (with males). Of course nothing comes easy, a lot of people (well… women actually) are now aware there is STILL one man alive and they’re coming after him in this Mad Max kind of era… I’m mentioning Mad Max here as this is the first reference that came to my mind when noticing that, after all men (except Yorick) went instinct, people started using gasoline and food instead of money to trade goods.
That’s just a quick summary of what happens, there’s a lot more going on and I suggest you pick up the book if you’re appealed by this kind of stories.
