LOEB! You dirty motherfucker.
Alex and I are fond of saying that Jeph Loeb is probably a great pitch man, because all of his stories sound pretty good when loosely described. But when he actually writes them they just fall apart. He's like 30's Studio Exec: "Maybe! Maybe Superman and Batman are criminals! And they have to fight all the other heroes! And maybe President Luthor blames them for everything!"
"Oh great Jeph, go right that."
Flash forward two months: "Hey Jeph, what's all this crap about kryptonite heroin and giant Composite-Superman robots? This sucks."
Well now we have the ultimate proof. Friendly Meltdown man whose name escapes me right now explained a heretofor unknown facet of the "Hush" tale to me this morning. You see "Hush" wasn't Loeb's idea. It was in fact pitched by Jim Krueger (current writer of Justice with Alex Ross). The idea (get this, the title is about to make way more sense) was that "Hush" referred to Batman's darkest secret: After Jason Todd's death, he took the body and dipped it in a Lazarus Pit, but it didn't work. The body was buried and everyone moved on with their lives. Except that it did work, eventually, and lil' Jason clawed his way out of his grave and decided to fucking tear Batman apart. So the story was basically the same (probably minus Tommy Plot Device) up until the Jason Todd reveal in the graveyard, at which point Loeb's story becomes irretrievably stupid, and maybe Krueger's was pretty good. But the powers at DC thought Loeb-Lee looked better on a cover than Krueger-Lee and thus crappy comics history was made.
Now I've always stood firmly against bringing Jason Todd back, but if you've got to do it (and DC, fuckers that they are, eventually did it anyway) then this is probably the best way. If ever there was a time Batman would bend regarding the use of the LAzarus Pit that was it. And the laws of drama would indicate that he would eventually pay for that moral lapse. And it would have been, if not as good as just leaving Robin dead, at least better than making him the fucking Red Hood. Fucking Judd Winnick.
So there, I hope you're all happy now. Jeph Loeb is a fucking hack.
"Oh great Jeph, go right that."
Flash forward two months: "Hey Jeph, what's all this crap about kryptonite heroin and giant Composite-Superman robots? This sucks."
Well now we have the ultimate proof. Friendly Meltdown man whose name escapes me right now explained a heretofor unknown facet of the "Hush" tale to me this morning. You see "Hush" wasn't Loeb's idea. It was in fact pitched by Jim Krueger (current writer of Justice with Alex Ross). The idea (get this, the title is about to make way more sense) was that "Hush" referred to Batman's darkest secret: After Jason Todd's death, he took the body and dipped it in a Lazarus Pit, but it didn't work. The body was buried and everyone moved on with their lives. Except that it did work, eventually, and lil' Jason clawed his way out of his grave and decided to fucking tear Batman apart. So the story was basically the same (probably minus Tommy Plot Device) up until the Jason Todd reveal in the graveyard, at which point Loeb's story becomes irretrievably stupid, and maybe Krueger's was pretty good. But the powers at DC thought Loeb-Lee looked better on a cover than Krueger-Lee and thus crappy comics history was made.
Now I've always stood firmly against bringing Jason Todd back, but if you've got to do it (and DC, fuckers that they are, eventually did it anyway) then this is probably the best way. If ever there was a time Batman would bend regarding the use of the LAzarus Pit that was it. And the laws of drama would indicate that he would eventually pay for that moral lapse. And it would have been, if not as good as just leaving Robin dead, at least better than making him the fucking Red Hood. Fucking Judd Winnick.
So there, I hope you're all happy now. Jeph Loeb is a fucking hack.
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