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 By Mark Rodriguez Batman's old enemy Hush has returned. He captured the Joker and tortured him to near death, leaving Batman in a position where he could easily just walk away and leave his oldest foe to die. What will he do?  "Hush 2 Chapter 2 The Rook" opens with Bruce flashing back to that fateful night in Park Row, which was renamed to Crime Alley. Batman drives along the Batmobile with a half-dead Joker next to him. He's not sure what bothers him more, the decision he made or that Hush made it for him. As he recalls the death of his parents, he comments that it wasn't Alfred that first found him, but a woman that didn't even know him. She was Leslie Thompkins, who heard the gunshots and took in the lost boy. Every year they would visit Crime Alley together on the anniversary of his parents' deaths. Not many people knew Bruce's secrets the way she did. Batman brings the Joker in to see Leslie, telling her he has a low pulse and is barely breathin...

 By Mark Rodriguez Here it is! The start of a whole new Batman run as well as the sequel to one of Batman's classic stories. Some comic shops were even holding events or special sales on the day of release. What will happen when Hush returns? Let's find out!  "Hush 2 Chapter one- The Pawn" opens with Batman going after a garbage truck as he recalls an earlier crime. Several years ago, the then Captain Jim Gordon called Batman about some maniac trying to poison The Gotham Reservoir. It was some guy calling himself the Joker. Batman says he stopped him then, and he will stop him now. One of Joker's men, predictably dressed like a clown dumps the truck full of Joker-ized piranha into the ocean. Batman swoops down and tried to get answers from the men, but it seems their masks are rigged to spray them with Joker gas whenever they're removed. Batman narrates that he found two garbage truck drivers, missing their uniforms and shot in the head. Two night ago there w...

By Mark Rodriguez The Riddler was working alongside Leonid Kull, a representative of the Court of Owls. Leonid was really working with the Russians and he stole Riddler's main cryptography that allows access to crypt and decrypt any security system, no matter how advanced. Now with Leonid preparing to board a flight to Russia with the stolen data, Batman has to stop as well as the mysterious new hero Commander Star who turned out to be KGBeast. How will this all end? "The Dying City Finale" opens with Batman speeding through the city in the Batmobile. He ponders that leaving Gordon alone to arrest the Riddler might have been a mistake since he was still reeling from the Mad Hatter's mind control. He can't let Leonid escape with the Riddler's code. With the code, the Russians can infiltrate and control everything. Batman fires off his grappling hook and leaps out of the Batmobile. Batman hooks onto the airplane, which is now airborne as he says he has one chan...

 By Mark Rodriguez The Riddler is working with the Court of Owls as Bruce's mysterious long-lost brother is trying to gain access of most of Wayne's shares. Elsewhere, despite Gordon thinking he shot and killed Mayor Nakano in self defense, it turns out he is being framed by the Riddler. What will happen next as Batman now turns his attention towards Nygma?   "The Dying Wish" Part 4 opens with Gotham police trying to keep things under control as protesters are now causing fires and explosions in the city. The officers things have gotten so out of hand they can't tell the protesters apart from the counter-protesters. They seem intent on blowing up a 'symbol of capitalism' while the new hero, Commander Star is just standing around and letting it happen. The officer tells his sergeant that they need back up, but the sarge says they're currently running low on manpower at the precinct. At the station, Batman and Jim Gordon are fighting off the cops as the...