All-Star Batman And Robin, the Boy Wonder

All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder (also known as ASBARTBW or ASS-BAR for short) is an American comic book series written by Frank Miller and pencilled by Jim Lee. It is the second and last series of DC Comics' All Star imprint. It was intended as a "prequel" to Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and was published with a sporadic schedule between 2005 and 2008.

Why It Goddamned Sucks

 * 1) Originally It was supposed to be a retelling of how Batman had his first sidekick, Robin, but it's changed much, much worse as seen below.
 * 2) False Advertising: Despite being advertised as a prequel to Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the comic's setting is in the mid-to-late 2000s, whereas The Dark Knight Returns is set in the 1980s during the Cold War.
 * 3) Also, the title does not imply that Batman and Robin are gonna team up until the last 2 issues (whom Robin does get his costume for that).
 * 4) Issue 6's cover implies Batman and Black Canary are teaming up with Batgirl, not had happened.
 * 5) The cover of issue 8 implies the Joker is holding Batman's cowl, nope it never happened.
 * 6) The variant cover of issue 9 by Neal Adams implies that Robin is going to choke an unmasked Green Lantern using the Green Lantern lamp, nope he instead just chop-handed to his neck.
 * 7) It barely even tries to fresh off what made Batman such an iconic superhero to Superman and Wonder Woman, instead turn it into a jokey black comedy with utter nonsense.
 * 8) Suffers from irregular scheduling issues (that was because the comic's artist Jim Lee was involved working on an online game called DC Universe Online), but that took for like 4 years until it was probably on hold when DC Comics abandoned the "All-Star" imprint in favor of the "Earth One" graphic novels.
 * 9) Confusing timestamps that labels these as "ago" instead of “later”.
 * 10) The pacing is inconsistent and slow along with filler scenes.
 * 11) Throughout the issues, it focuses too much on monologuing and bickering as if we are reading a graphic novel with lots of word texts/thought balloons like an unillustrated novel.
 * 12) Frank Miller's interpretation of the DC comics' characters don't have the same personality or act anything like their mainstream counterparts. Even so, the heroes and villains have their roles reversed:
 * 13) Batman is depicted as an unheroic sociopath who kidnaps and abuses Dick Grayson, the future Robin, as well as call him a "retard". His interpretation of him is also a murderer and shows no remorse of his actions and makes him very unsympathetic in which the mainstream one would never do.
 * 14) Wonder Woman is depicted as a man-hating hypocrite who has no problem kissing Superman, despite earlier considering men as "sperm banks" that "gets out of her way". She even intends to hunt down and kill Batman for kidnapping Dick Grayson who was last seen taken by corrupted police officers from the GCPD.
 * 15) Dick Grayson/Robin is treated like a slave while almost nearly killing his parents’ killer, Jocko-Boy Vanzetti, and Green Lantern.
 * 16) The Joker, went from an egotistical sociopath to a emotionalless criminal who not only kills for love, but is also a generic minor crime boss that doesn't smile AT ALL. He even keeps gushing about how he loves Gotham City, despite he thinks it's ugly, shameful, irredeemable and more of a whore in which it's beautiful and cries while physically abusing his "girlfriend" Donna Gugina and had injured Catwoman. He is even revealed to have hired a mugger named Jocko-Boy Vanzetti (whose name looks and sounds utterly ridiculous to call) to kill Dick Grayson's parents, rather than mob boss, Tony Zucco doing it so he could extort money from Haly's Circus in the main continuity.
 * 17) *Also, he only appears in one issue.
 * 18) Superman is a very incompetent superhero towards Wonder Woman (whom had a kiss), Green Lantern, and Plastic Man, considering Batman kidnapped Dick Grayson and barely does anything but say "damn" all the time whenever Batman makes mistakes of crimefighting.
 * 19) Alfred is now seriously a muscular man who is in his 60's, where he punches a punching bag while he is naked in his underwear. He is also treated like a slave by Batman.
 * 20) Wasted a bunch of well-known DC Comics characters like Plastic Man and Hal Jordan/Green Lantern who is nothing more than a punching bag by Batman and Robin in issue 9 while Catwoman has nothing than being injured by the Joker in the final issue.
 * 21) Incredibly crappy dialogue, such as
 * 22) Vicky Vale saying "I'm having a date with Bruce Wayne."
 * 23) Wonder Woman saying "Out of my way, sperm bank."
 * 24) Batman calling Dick Grayson "retarded" before naming himself to be the "goddamn Batman!", the latter of which would become an internet meme.
 * 25) Also, Green Lantern saying, "Damn you and your Lemonade!"
 * 26) Batman saying "Not one word. I've taken enough grief about calling my goddamn car the goddamn Batmobile. I'm the goddamn Batman and I can call my goddamn whatever the hell I want to call it."
 * 27) The plot barely goes anywhere after issue 1.
 * 28) Forgettable villains from the comic like Jocko-boy Vanzetti, the muggers that Batgirl fought, and the corrupt policemen who are the closest to being the "real" villains instead of the Joker.
 * 29) The tone doesn't try to be dark but feels more like a serious black comedy.
 * 30) Jim Lee's artwork, while pretty good, is wasted with splash pages, less number of panels, bizarre, yet inaccurate backgrounds, weirdly-used knives, and high heels.
 * 31) In the 9th issue, it is just a filler sub-story where Batman and Robin paint themselves with yellow color to mock Green Lantern of how he is better than any superhero and verbally beat him up.
 * 32) Poor grasp on the mainstream comics' source material:
 * 33) * Instead of retelling the origin of Dick Grayson, the first Robin, Frank Miller decided to change his origin story to a more grittier, yet modern take where Dick's parents are shot instead of falling to their deaths from a burnt rope. Then, Batman kidnaps him instead of adopting him as Bruce Wayne. This incarnation of Dick will also become the Joker due to Batman firing him in favor of a girl named Carrie Kelly that was foreshadowed in Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again.
 * 34) * Barbara Gordon/Batgirl is 15 while Dick Grayson/Robin is 12, which makes Barbara older than Dick.
 * 35) * Jimmy Olsen is 16 in this comic and doesn't work at the Daily Planet, but the Gotham Gazette.
 * 36) * Black Canary is an Irish woman with barely having any connection with Green Arrow and is waitress at a hooter. She even makes out with Batman while thugs are burned by fiery bleach in issue 7.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The artwork by Jim Lee is awesome despite his art was wasted from Frank Miller's terrible writing.
 * 2) Some moments are very funny, such as Batman covering himself, Robin and an entire house in yellow paint so that Green Lantern's power ring won't work.
 * 3) Commissioner Jim Gordon still has the same personality as his mainstream counterpart despite cheating Barbara Eileen with Sarah Essen.
 * 4) The action scenes are decent (except for the Batmobile slicing through police cars).

Reception
Since it's anticipation, it has received negative reviews from critics and Batman fans alike for distorting the nature of the Batman mythos along with being directed at Frank Miller's writing and his interpretation of the title character, being verbally abusive and psychotic to that of the mainstream Batman would never have done.

Trivia

 * Internet review Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug has re-interpreted this incarnation of Batman as a crazy hobo named Steve (nicknamed "Crazy Steve") who managed to steal the Batsuit and began thinking that he was actually Batman, along with Wonder Woman being an escaped mental patient named "Bonkers Betty". Similarly, some viewers suggested that Dick Grayson is probably Larry, Robin's imp-like counterpart from the 2003 Teen Titans TV series.
 * After DC abandoned the "All-Star" line in favor of the "Earth One" graphic novel imprint (until it was used for All-Star Batman, unrelated or connected to this comic), there was a follow-up called The Dark Knight: Boy Wonder, where it would continue concluding it as a 6-issue series than the last 2 remaining issues of it's predecessor. Also, Frank Miller states that he and Jim Lee are starting to work on the follow-up. However, the series has not been published, leaving Batman and Robin, who had rescued an injured Catwoman with their confrontation with the Joker, who said that he hired a mugger to murder Robin's parents, and how the Justice League and the GCPD would hunt down Batman is left uncertain.
 * Bruno, a minor villainess from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns in issue 2, appears in issue 8 of All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder.
 * Issue 10 was recalled due to the use of profanity that needed to be blackened as censorship in paperbacks.

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