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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...