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| All-Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder, Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Author: Frank Miller
Creator: Jim Lee
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 16040
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 6.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1401216811
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401216818
ASIN: 1401216811
Publication Date: July 8, 2008
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 Almost Terrible July 11, 2008
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
What a disappointment. I waited a couple years for this? The characters and story is just awful and makes me rethink my love for Frank Miller. It's awful. It's all stuff we've seen before but with a super-corny make over. I can't believe I wasted three hours reading this yesterday. It's terrible. The art and colors are great but they don't make the story any better. Yes, the stories in these comics are that terrible. Yuck. I'm selling my copy right away.
 Closer to Average than All-Star July 17, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
It was the combination of two proven names that enticed me to take a chance on All Star Batman & Robin; writer Frank Miller (Batman: Year One, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) and artist Jim Lee (Absolute Batman: Hush) have brought to life some of the greatest Batman stories. Unfortunately though, this one seems to fall short of greatness.
There is potential - don't get me wrong. Lee's artwork is bright and colorful and invites the reader to view the pages for just a little bit longer. On the other hand, Miller's quick and short writing doesn't allow for much taking in of the artwork. There's seems to be a conflict to say the least.
But probably the biggest problem with All Star Batman & Robin is with Batman or should I say "the g**damned Batman." At certain points, he's clearly possessed, more so than I've ever seen him. His sanity seems more at question here than it does in the psychological rollercoaster of Batman: Arkham Asylum. He's just not himself.
Bottom line: This story is okay, just OKAY. You could read it and be entertained at some points, or you could leave it and not miss out on a whole lot.
 NOT EVEN ROB LIEFELD COULD PRODUCE SUCH HORRID WORK! July 20, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Not counting Jim Lee's beautiful art, everything about this comic is just plain, downright terrible. Not only is the plot non-existent, the scripting completely misguided and appalling, the characterization on a par with the Joel Schumacher farce BATMAN & ROBIN, but to see that this is being published in a prestigious hardcover format is just about one of the worst things that DC has foisted on its readers (now I know how Alan Moore feels about them!).
When Rob Liefeld presented his HEROES REBORN version of Captain America, everyone and his dog blasted it as a waste of paper. Well, what Frank Miller is doing to Gotham City in this is about a billion times worse!
And let's not get started on the repeated delays to the scheduling/publishing of this book. It's not like it has a plot or any real sense of purpose or mystery. It's simply Frank Miller hack-writing to his bile's content. ENOUGH ALREADY! We get that you were a weedy kid who has to always resort to stealing from other's plots and yet always has to take all the credit and accolades bestowed upon you!
Man, that Wertham guy had nothing on what you are currently doing to the comic community! (At least he's no longer around!)
Any minute now and Alfred's gay lover is bound to stumble into the Batcave and catch Bruce with his pants down... (Don't say you weren't warned, readers! You know, there's a reason the rats are the first to abandon the sinking ship! I just wish Miller would learn from it....)
The stake in Miller's reputation July 23, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
If this series is (as Frank Miller sees it) the prequel to The Dark Knight Returns concept, then The Batman quite completely an unsympathetic creature indeed. More likely, though, Miller's writing has simply taken a self-indulgent turn for the worse and The Batman is just fine. In many ways, it's as if Miller's become the misanthropic Dark Knight he's written about so much. Thing is, up until about the The Dark Knight Strikes Back, even that Batman had a heart somewhere deep down below.
And yes, kicking ASB&R at this point is kicking a giant, money-making cash-cow of a book while its down. But it bears repeating: this is a train wreck of a Batman storyline. Mind you, Jim Lee's artwork is firing on all cylinders. The downside to that is he's saddled with Miller's misogyny. While Lee's always been drawn to sexy takes on superheroines, the cheesecake factor is uncomfortably high here (see reducing Black Canary to a clone of one of Miller's Sin City vixens for the most egregious example in this volume). The characterization of all characters (particualrly the Justice League) is laughable, if not more than a little insulting to the reader's intelligence.
In short, curiousity may draw you in to this one, but don't say you weren't warned.
By far Millers worst work ever August 7, 2008
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Saying that there's some hidden meaning in this story is just hoping for the best. The truth of the matter is that this is the worst thing Miller has yet written. It has no purpose and no meaning. He's capitalizing on The Dark Knight Returns by quoting that book(we've always been criminals, we have to be) and bringing back the babe with the swastikas on her chest. The idea that this was the beginning of it all is compelling, but the story HAS to match up, and it has to stand on its own. We can't congratulate ourselves for recognizing these references and give the work a credit it doesn't deserve.The Wonder Woman characters rage was poorly executed and insulting. This is Millers worst moment by far. Is it something about the DC characters themselves that with rare exception brings out the worst in almost ever writer? Personally I didn't like Jim Lee's artwork either. Miller is best when he illustrates himself with due respect to Bill Siekvitch. Lee's work is so juvenille. I would have preferred a better story illustrated by Jae Lee perhaps, but Jim's work is so played out and obvious. This is a very, very, bad book.
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