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A review by mjthomas43
Batman Beyond: Hush Beyond by Adam Beechen
4.0
Terry McGinnis has been working hard to win Bruce Wayne's trust as the new Batman (Beyond) but nothing every seems good enough. When someone starts killing Batman's old enemies plus a few innocents, the relationship is strained even further. A partial-resolution comes when an older Dick Grayson, a new Catwoman and the two Batman's team up to defeat an insane, Cadmus-created Dick Grayson clone bent on destroying pretty much everything. Bruce comes to a realization but old wounds cannot be forgotten so quickly.
Good story line and some interesting twists. The Batman Beyond explanation of "Gotham plus time" is fascinating when it focuses on emotional and mental states of the old players (as this work does) and the action is a good backdrop for the exploration of what has happened.
The one thing that bothered me about the storyline though was the behaviour of everyone just as the Dick Grayson clone appeared. No one, not even Terri, seems to question that this is a clone, even before the real Dick shows up to help. Sure, there's not much time, but the plot would have rung a little more true had there been a bit of thought along the lines of "Could this be Dick Grayson? Why would he do this? How exactly is this Dick Grayson not corresponding to what we know of the real Dick Grayson?" There is no time given to the thought of Dick-as-hero-turned-villain.
Good story line and some interesting twists. The Batman Beyond explanation of "Gotham plus time" is fascinating when it focuses on emotional and mental states of the old players (as this work does) and the action is a good backdrop for the exploration of what has happened.
The one thing that bothered me about the storyline though was the behaviour of everyone just as the Dick Grayson clone appeared. No one, not even Terri, seems to question that this is a clone, even before the real Dick shows up to help. Sure, there's not much time, but the plot would have rung a little more true had there been a bit of thought along the lines of "Could this be Dick Grayson? Why would he do this? How exactly is this Dick Grayson not corresponding to what we know of the real Dick Grayson?" There is no time given to the thought of Dick-as-hero-turned-villain.