I'm trying to catch up on this whole Jason Todd/Hush/Red Hood stuff. I really feel lost on this one as I've gone in and out of comics over the years and just never got this whole story straight. Can someone tell me the essential back issues I should try to pick up to learn all about this character(s)? Also, I have now learned about DCBS from this forum for new orders, but does anyone have recommendations for a good discount back issue site to pick up these issues? Thanks in advance!

If you want to go the trade route:

Death in the Family
Lonely Place of Dying (but I think its OOP)
Hush
Under the Red Hood Vol 1 & 2
Teen Titans Life and Death
Nightwing Brothers in Blood

This is a great place for me to start. Are the listings you have provided in continuity/chronological order?

Yes. Hes starting to pop up here and there more often, but thats a good chunk of his apps. This is 1 Superboy punch I dont mind

So...Jason is somehow alive...and has become Hush or Red Hood or someone...seems to be as old, if not older than Nightwing...and is evil, or at least a sadistic son of a bitch.

Is that right? Feel free to fill in the blanks 'cause I just don't understand.

My opinion on the whole storyline? Mike Barr & Alan Davis' run on Detective presented a great Batman & Robin team. Jason was a young, still learning, but developing hero. Then Starlin took over Batman and Jason became, frankly, an asshole. I thought the turn in the character came pretty much out of nowhere and was a poor story choice, but that's just my opinion. Then came Death in the Family, which failed for me as a story because, after making Jason such a jerk how were we supposed to be emotionally impacted by his death? I know I wasn't. The whole change in characterization of Jason felt like manipulation by DC to influence the phone in vote and gain publicity. Personally, I think they should have left well enough alone at that point and kept a character that they ruined dead. They didn't fix anything by bringing him back, he's an even bigger asshole now than he was post-crisis (the original crisis, you remember, the good one, not this new Superboy induced crisis) with his extreme measures. Ah well. Sorry for the rant.

Jason was never Hush, just one of his players. He has been the Red Hood as well as Nightwing, and in 1 Year Later, he is 19 years old, so not older than Dick.

from wiki:




Red Hood, Winter Soldier, revenge of the side kicks

< Hates Jason Tood and wishes he would die along with Batwoman.

Ah, but Winter Soldier is written by Brubaker...therefore, all is forgiven.