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This is the first part of Hush. It is done by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee. It is set in the more "modern" era of the Batman mythology. So in this book, you will find characters such as Nightwing, Robin, and new villians such as Harley Quinn. Anyway, I prefer more the early mythology of Batman, but I can really appreciate the set up of this novel. The artwork is fabulous, but unfortunately begins to shift in appearance as the read the story. So yeah, all in all Hush, is a 3.5. I give 4-stars to Volume I and 3-stars to Volume II, as Part II has different look in the artwork and it all too jarring. I prefer the look of Batman in Volume II, but the nose on his cowl changes significantly. Jim Lee, the artist, has admitted that he was learning how to draw Batman in Volume I. Well, maybe he could have done some prep work?

In this deceptively skinny volume, Hersey collects eyewitness accounts of an infamous summer day in the lives of six Hiroshima residents, and of their gritty, often improvised responses to the personal and civic aftermath of nuclear attack. The book painstakingly weaves together recollections of the blast itself, the chaotic flight of city-dwellers to wretched camps upstream on the Ota river, and the longer term ordeals of doctors and patients grappling with the unknowns of radiation sickness. These unfold at an ordered and unhurried pace, letting the reader absorb surprising details of the events, such as the evening tornado that the blast's convection tower spun out, and the pumpkins and tubers, cooked instantly in fields by the bomb's heat, that gave meager nourishment to survivors. Hersey's missionary background prompts an exaggerated focus on the experiences of clerics and churchgoers, and lends the text a disturbing christian undercurrent. But 'Hiroshima' serves as a necessary document, readily accessible to a wide audience, of the nuclear horror that humankind has already experienced.