Batman Hush arc question.....

[STC]

I'm re-reading Hush and I had this question when I read this story. When Tommy Elliot performed brain surgery he shaved Bruce's head (based on the Daily Planet pic).

2 or 3 issues later he has full head of hair in Metropolis, but Tommy still says he should be recovering because he had a fractured skull.

How much time passed between his surgery and Metropolis? Did his hair just grow really quick?

[carabas]

It's a Jeph Loeb story from the second half of his carreer - switch off your brain and don't ask questions about obvious plot holes.

[spawnonfire]

Maybe he wore a wig? I don't know but it's one explanation.

[squeek2334]

To go along with the HUSH questions here....I just read Hush Vol. 1 and was wondering what happenes to Batman and Catwomen. Do they ever get together? how does that pan out?

[carabas]

They get together, and then they split back up for the most utterly unbelievable reason, especially given Rucka and Brubaker's two years worth of character development on Batman in Murederer/Fugitive just prior to Loeb's run (well, stroll).

[stextc]

They get together, and then they split back up for the most utterly unbelievable reason, especially given Rucka and Brubaker's two years worth of character development on Batman in Murederer/Fugitive just prior to Loeb's run (well, stroll).
But they do get back to get back together in Heart of Hush . . .

[nepenthes]

I agree with Carabas, Loebs excuse for reverting to the staus quo and ending what should have been an interesting development is pretty weak.

Spoiler
Batman tells her can't have any partners or friends because it all ends in betrayal and death and that if he ever could, he lost it the night his parents were murdered. So it's pretty much..."my parents are deeeaad!" wah wah wah. Catwoman then raises the point of Nightwing, Robin and Oracle etc so he has to switch excuses - he uses Scarecrow and Ivy as his get-out clause, saying they must have been messing with their minds. Very smooth. Catwoman says "Hush..." while trying to kiss him, to which he flips out grabbing her wrists and hurting her. Next he gets paranoid and wonders whether she was in on the whole thing from the beginning. Then, just to round out the cliches, he turns away and does his silent, pouting gargoyle thing and stonewalls her until she just walks away. She's basically like, "whatever. sick of this. Call me when you've grown up. "


I've forgotten the reason Bruce and Selina don't go further with it in Heart of Hush, but I do remember it was a pretty good scene....

[Choppa]

I'm re-reading Hush and I had this question when I read this story. When Tommy Elliot performed brain surgery he shaved Bruce's head (based on the Daily Planet pic).

2 or 3 issues later he has full head of hair in Metropolis, but Tommy still says he should be recovering because he had a fractured skull.

How much time passed between his surgery and Metropolis? Did his hair just grow really quick?

Why was Clark at the Daily Planet when Bruce went to visit? Who knows? As was said, when reading this story, leave your brain at the door.

To go along with the HUSH questions here....I just read Hush Vol. 1 and was wondering what happenes to Batman and Catwomen. Do they ever get together? how does that pan out?

Basically Bruce didn't know if he could trust whether or not Selina had truly reformed and didn't want to take the risk. It was something like that.

[felix77]

Bruce does tell Selina he loves her in the latest arc though.

[F1uke]

Something was effecting Bruce's mind, and he wasn't sure if he could trust Selina or not, and when he was telling her, she whispered "Hush", making him think she was a distraction

[carabas]

Why was Clark at the Daily Planet when Bruce went to visit? Who knows?Because Clark works at the Daily Planet? Or am I missing something in my memory? I don't have the book handy to look it up.

[Lorendiac]

Bruce does tell Selina he loves her in the latest arc though.

I'm confused. Just what do you mean by "the latest arc"? Which issues of which title from DC?

Incidentally, for anyone who's interested: In late 2006 I posted

Timeline of the Various Batman/Catwoman Romances (2nd Draft) (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=151368)

In it, I outline how various romances have happened . . . and then faded out of continuity . . . and then it happens all over again . . .and so forth. Including some commentary on how, after "Hush," different people at DC seemed to have very different opinions on whether or not Bruce and Selina were still an item over the next couple of years.

Since I haven't read the Catwoman title in years, I'm not sure if anything noteworthy has happened in the last couple of years to merit being added to a new update of my Timeline. I wonder how Selina and Bruce will react to seeing each other again after he makes it home to his native era?

[AJM]

I'm confused. Just what do you mean by "the latest arc"? Which issues of which title from DC?

Heart Of Hush, recently in Detective, just came out in HC.

[Choppa]

Because Clark works at the Daily Planet? Or am I missing something in my memory? I don't have the book handy to look it up.

He had been fired by Perry prior to that. I think it was a setup or something, but anyway he shouldn't have been there. The joke at the time was that Superman books were so bad that even the writers didn't know what was going on in them.