Batman #159
(W) Jeph Loeb (A) Jim Lee
In Shops: Apr 23, 2025
SRP: $4.99
H2SH WITH JEPH LOEB AND JIM LEE CONTINUES! After the shocking events of the last issue, Batman must make the hardest decision of his life! Guest-starring Nightwing, Batgirl, and Red Hood!
Batman #159
(W) Jeph Loeb (A) Jim Lee
In Shops: Apr 23, 2025
SRP: $4.99
H2SH WITH JEPH LOEB AND JIM LEE CONTINUES! After the shocking events of the last issue, Batman must make the hardest decision of his life! Guest-starring Nightwing, Batgirl, and Red Hood!
Batman #158
(W) Jeph Loeb (A) Jim Lee
In Shops: Mar 26, 2025
SRP: $4.99
THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE SMASH-HIT STORYLINE! Jeph Loeb! Jim Lee! An all-new epic saga begins here. Hush returns!
Hush returns! About 23 years after the two teamed up, Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee are back again to tell an all-new tale featuring Hush. Batman #158 kicks off the hotly anticipated story arc, dubbed Batman: H2SH, and the result is… just ok.
Written by Jeph Loeb, the issue is a strange one. The storytelling feels a little disconnected at points with logic jumps that make absolute no sense. The Joker is at it again, this time poisoning Gotham’s water with fish… because. Of course Batman swoops in to save the day but also stumbles and he himself has to be saved… by someone who just so happens to be in the area. That’s the first oddity of the issue. But then, the Joker is being manipulated? Used as bait? It’s all rather odd overall leading Batman to discover Hush is back with leaps that feel rough and a stretch.
The comic’s entertainment can’t even been saved by Jim Lee‘s art which is good but doesn’t feel like it has the dynamic excitement of the classic story. With ink by Scott Williams, color by Alex Sinclair, and lettering by Richard Starkings, the comic looks great but there’s a lack of excitement visually. There’s solid panels, some beautiful work, it’s what we’d expect from Lee, but there’s nothing that jumps out or excites. It hits the beats but doesn’t excel and stand out like the original.
Batman #158 isn’t a bad issue. It’s entertaining and might lead to something great overall, but as a single issue, it falls short of the excitement and magic of that original release. Logic leaps along with art that doesn’t quite blow things away creates a start that’s just ok overall. In the end, this story arc will be measured by its whole but for a start, this one doesn’t live up to expectations or hype.
Story: Jeph Loeb Art: Jim Lee
Ink: Scott Williams Color: Alex Sinclair Letterer: Richard Starkings
Story: 7.0 Art: 7.0 Overall: 7.0 Recommendation: Read
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Batman: The Long Halloween – The Last Halloween #6 (of 10)
(W) Jeph Loeb (A) Enrico Marini
In Shops: Mar 26, 2025
SRP: $4.99
GOTHAM CITY, ON ICE! In 1996, writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale teamed up for Batman: The Long Halloween, an award-winning, 13-chapter saga that spawned multiple sequels and stands as the most influential Batman story of its era. Now, Loeb returns to the world of The Long Halloween for its long-anticipated final act: Batman The Long Halloween: The Last Halloween, an all-new 10-part mystery continuing the story from 2021’s Batman: The Long Halloween Special. In each issue, Loeb will be joined by one of the top artists in comics in a beautiful and lovingly crafted tribute to Sale’s art and legacy. A chilling foe takes center stage in this issue as The Last Halloween continues to heat up!
Batman #158
(W) Jeph Loeb (A) Jim Lee
In Shops: Mar 26, 2025
SRP: $4.99
THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE SMASH-HIT STORYLINE! Jeph Loeb! Jim Lee! An all-new epic saga begins here. Hush returns!
For 50 years, Len Wein and Dave Cockrum’s Giant-Size X-Men #1 has stood as one of the most important moments in Marvel Comics history, reshaping the X-Men forever. Starting in May, Marvel celebrates its milestone anniversary with an all-new event revisiting key X-Men storylines in a series of Giant-Size X-Men one-shots, including Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse which features a Revelations Backup Story by Eisner Award-winning writer Jeph Loeb, an architect behind the original Age of Apocalypse, and superstar artist Simone Di Meo!
Across the five anniversary one-shots, the Revelations Backup Stories will reveal hidden lore behind each respective story and setsup exciting present-day developments coming in the near future. In Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse #1, Loeb returns to the iconic dystopian future he helped create! Age of Apocalypse shook the X-Men to its core in the ‘90s, and now, one of the era’s most prolific creators is back to reignite the groundbreaking storyline just in time for its own major milestone anniversary!
What if these critical moments held deeper secrets? What if the past wasn’t set in stone? Experience Giant-Size X-Men #1, The Dark Phoenix Saga, Age of Apocalypse, and more pivotal X-sagas from an all-new, all-different perspective across five time-bending one-shots by acclaimed X-Scribes Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and celebrated artists Adam Kubert, Rod Reis, C.F. Villa and more!
The event sees Ms. Marvel pulled into the distant past by an unstable and unleashed Legion! Locked in a battle through time against the Omega-Level mutant, Kamala Khan is only one standing in the way of X-Men history being warped forever! Following Giant-Size X-Men #1 and Giant-Size Dark Phoenix #1, Kamala finds herself stuck in the darkest future of all in Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse #1! Worse yet: It’s only hours from its inevitable end; if Kamala can’t find what’s left of the X-Men, she’ll burn in nuclear hellfire. Former enemies must learn to rely on one another as they journey through a land of charred bones and broken promises…but can Legion truly be trusted? And how far will Rogue go to teach Kamala the true meaning of mutant identity? Welcome back to the Age of Apocalypse – where no one survives the experience!
Check out Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse’s main cover by Adam Kubert along with a variant cover by Simone Di Meo and stay tuned for more information about the Giant-Size X-Men Anniversary Event, including announcements for Giant-Size House of M and Giant-Size X-Men #2.
In their acclaimed new run of Wolverine, writer Saladin Ahmed and artist Martín Cóccolo introduced the looming threat of the Adamantine, an ancient primal force who’s been tracking down and controlling villains enhanced by adamantium. After fighting his way through Lady Deathstrike, Cyber and more, Wolverine was confronted with Adamantine’s golden-armored champion: ROMULUS!
Romulus, the mastermind villain who manipulated Wolverine’s tragic life for decades, is back, and his brutal battle with Wolverine in this week’s Wolverine #7 revealed Adamantine’s lore-shattering history and the scope of its revenge! This explosive first arc concludes next month in Wolverine #8, the milestone 400th issue of Wolverine. The highly anticipated issue features a variant cover by superstar artist Simone Bianchi, who co-created Romulus alongside Jeph Loeb in Wolverine: Origins. Bianchi’s artwork captures Romulus at his most ferocious as he takes on both Wolverines in his pursuit for Adamantine’s divine power!
Check out Bianchi’s Wolverine #8 (LEGACY #400) cover and preorder it at your local comic shop today!
From legendary storytellers, Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams, Alex Sinclair, and Richard Starkings, Batman: H2SH will shake Gotham to its core. The Hush saga continues in Batman #158, on sale March 26! Pre-order at your local comic shop today.
Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s next installment of their celebrated Batman: Hush comic book saga begins in DC’s Batman #158 on March 26, 2025. Loeb and Lee, with collaborators Scott Williams, Alex Sinclair, and Richard Starkings, are keeping their new Batman story (“H2SH”) under tight wraps, but have revealed preview pages from Batman #158 to give fans something to look forward to!
As to the direction the series will take in the six months that Loeb, Lee, Williams, Sinclair, and Starkings are the creatives behind DC’s Batman comic books, DC has released an additional sneak peek into Batman #159! What other twists and turns will we see between Batman #158 and Batman #163?
