Batman - Hush (Jeph Loeb & Jim Lee)

One of my frens was championing this one. I fail to see what's so special. Nice art by Lee aside, this is the third time running for Loeb to try his whodunnit? plot after The Long Halloween and Dark Victory. And it's running a bit thin. The Bats and Catwoman romance is a bit unbelievable. There are holes in the story as big as the ozone gap - how did the Huntress find Catwoman?, why is it that Bats is omnipresent, as it's a first-person perspective tale yet you can see "Hush" plotting....? I'm underwhelmed.

The Death of Superman - various

Rather misleading gimmick in its advertising - Best-selling graphic novel of all time? I really, really doubt that. Again nothing that special, although with the pounding of Superman and the Dan Jurgens-era JLA by Doomsday will leave any reader exhausted. Art is mediocre, so is the story.....

Green Lantern/Green Arrow - Vol. 2 (Denny O'Neil & Neal Adams)

I bought the first volume at 2 quid in the UK. Saw Vol. 2 selling at 9 quid and didn't buy it. But had fond memories of the first volume so much I finally got this. It's great, best of the bunch I bought. O'Neil and Adams were the first to bring DC Comics into a new era, and this run was the second series to bring "relevance" into comics, after Spiderman's controversial "drugs" issue which forewent the Comics Code Authority's approval. The 60s problems are siphoned through the eyes of superheroes - drugs (GA's sidekick has got a nasty heroin habit), race (the third GL sub is a black), environment, the economy and crime.