All-Star Batman and Robin - Anybody reading this?

[Ghostwind]

There's only been 2 issues so far, but I have to say I find this new retelling of Batman interesting. It's almost as if Frank Miller is giving you the prequel for his Dark Knight Returns story. Very dark and violent comic.

Anybody else reading this?

 

[stevelabny]

Lots of people read it because it was Miller + Lee. The general consensus is that its awful.

I know some people like his stuff, but I was never a fan of Jim Lee, and his work has been less and less interesting as time goes by. His art on the Hush storyline, and the recent Superman story were bad, but here it looks like he just wants to sell his cheesecake shots art pages.
Miller hasn't done anything of value since halfway through Sin City, and the dialogue in this piece of garbage makes even the awful DKR2 look good.

The one line everyone chooses to mock, "Are you dense? Are your retarded or something? Do you know who I am? I'm the goddamned Batman" is possibly the worst line of comic dialogue ever written.

The sexual overtones to the story "I've had my eye on him for a long time" , the random changing of Dick's origin (his parents were SHOT instead of fell? WTF? That means that everyone in attendance knows its murder, much hard to cover up) , the ridiculous take on Batman, the bad art, and the awful dialogue above make this story a top contender for worst book of the year.

 

[ddvmor]

I thought Dick's parents had always been mudered... ho hum.

I'm quite enjoying it, although Bats appears to be acting completely out of character. I like Jim's art. Especially in the first couple of pages of issue one (ahem).

I'm also looking forward to All Star Superman.

 

[Viking Bastard]

It's either a brilliant piece of self-satire by Miller, in which case it rocks, or it's awfully bad.

I haven't really decided, yet.

It's almost as if Frank Miller is giving you the prequel for his Dark Knight Returns story.

It is. It's been said that it takes place in DKR continuity.

 

[Klaus]

I gave up on Miller after that piece of... er... trash... titled DK2.

I like Jim Lee well enough, but he's not in the same league as, say, Pérez (compare their respective covers to Infinite Crisis and you'll see what I mean).

 

[Dagger75]

I thought Dick's parents had always been mudered... ho hum.

They where, just not shot. The mob rigged the trapeeze to fail and Papa Grayson and Mama Greyson fell to thier death. If I remeber correctly the mob was telling the owner of the circus that if you don't pay up there will be more accidents. Dick was going to kill him right then and there but Batman stopped him and told he has a better way and turned him into Robin.

So what happened this time did some guy just shoot the Grayson's in the middle of the big top?

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Read the first issue, thought it was ok but not great. I'm waiting for the tradepaper edition, then I'll order it for the library and borrow it to read.

 

[WayneLigon]

I'm liking it a lot, so far; it depends on if my supposition is correct: what we're seeing here with Batman's characterization so far is what Batman would be like without a Robin to rein him in. He's just at that cusp of moving from 'obsessed vigilante' into 'madman with a death wish' when he finally has something to be responsible for. We've known this for a long time that that's what Robin's function - besides being an apprentice to train so that the mission goes on in case Batman falls - is; he keep Bats from just going off the deep end. This is just the beginning of that entire thing.