All-Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder, Vol. 1 | Frank Miller

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	All-Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder, Vol. 1 Frank Miller DC Comics, 2008 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 38 reviews view larger image
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The talents responsible for some of Batman's greatest tales, Frank Miller (BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, Sin City) and Jim Lee (BATMAN: HUSH) team up for the first time to bring you Batman and Robin like you've never seen them before in this reinvention of these classic characters.

All hell breaks loose at the circus as Bruce Wayne and gal pal Vicki Vale witness a young boy's life shattered before their eyes. Orphaned, Dick Grayson has nowhere to go and no one to turn to -- no one but Bruce Wayne! Expect action, adventure, guest-stars and the unexpected as Miller and Lee deliver the ultimate tales of the Dynamic Duo!

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Frank, I take back everything I said

My introduction to this series of stories by Frank Miller was when I bought issue #4 at the local book store. I took it home, read it, and promptly HATED it. Not being a big fan of Frank Miller anyway, I thought who the hell was he to step in and turn my beloved Batman into a psycho blood shedding, violence loving S.O.B. who not only terrorizes Dick Grayson upon kidnapping him only hours after Dick's parents are murdered, but then makes him eat RATS??? I chalked it up to my dislike of Frank Miller, in my eyes a psycho himself who has an annoying penchant for turning every woman in his stories into a prostitute, and ditched the comic book on the bottom of my book shelf and there it lay, dusty and forgotten. Until a month ago when I had a gift certificate to use up at the bookstore. There it stood on the shelf, All Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder. That despicable book. Ten minutes and fifteen dollars off later, I brought it home. It still sat on my shelf for a month, still encased in plastic. Until this weekend for some reason I ripped off the plastic, propped myself on the bed, opened the offending pages - and LAUGHED OUT LOUD! A small still voice inside told me "It's a satire, dummy!" I hate to say it, I mean I reeeally HATE to say it, but this is one of the best Batman stories I have ever read. This Batman does no brooding, does not hang out at night at his parent's graves, this Batman "LOVES BEING THE G**DAMN BATMAN!!", in his words. He's a jerk, he's arrogant, he thinks Superman is a Candy Pants and Green Lantern is a moron. And he'll tell them to their faces. If you do not laugh insanely at the scene where Batman meets the Green Lantern privately to talk, in a room painted entirely in YELLOW, and not only that, but Batman and Robin are also dripping in yellow paint, then you do not love comic books. Everyone is a little warped here. Even Alfred seems to be harboring some deep inner sexual conflicts, punching his frustrations out on a punching bag down in the bat cave, in his underwear, and talking about his dark-eyed angel, Bruce. Hmmmm.... But for once, I love Frank Miller's interpretations of the women. Black Canary is an Irish bar tender in Gotham until she cracks one day and can't take the male jibes and groping anymore. Let's just say don't call her "Love Chunks." She kicks so much butt even Batman is impressed. And Wonder Woman, emasculating Superman with a few sharp words and her stinging assessment of manhood, only to literally spit her disgust at him, and then swap that same spit in the next panel in a liplock with him. Awesome. These women are tougher than the men, inside and out. This is an awesome book, people. I highly recommend it, I am going to be reading this several more times just to get a good laugh, and I hope you do too. Somebody tell me - is there a SEQUEL????!

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imagine batman the way it's supposed to be written
and the drawings are amazing.
jim lee and frank miller ... perfecto!

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