i really liked all the things loeb did to shake up the status quo. the HUSH storyline itself may have been presented like a "villain of the month" brochure, however, so many cool new possibilities were laid out.
a healed two-face, an empowered riddler, various rogues wars (riddler / ra's, hush / two-face, etc), a seemingly amped up ivy, the introduction of "hush," the better rebirth of jason todd, etc, etc.
all great possibilities.
ruined, only months later, in a dreadful sequence of gotham knights issues.
the joker was awful. he was whiney and not funny and not even really crazy. prometheus was a hitman, and a poor one. hush was awful, and still had issues with bandages (saw darkman. not good then.) ...batman was pathetic. green arrow (ollie) was the better fighter and better detective of the two.
its like every page introduced new, awful crap. i couldn't believe an editor would accept one of these stories, let alone a series of half a dozen, or so.
it was really, really bad.
