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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:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 13150
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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Condition: brand new
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 I would give it no Stars if I could! November 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The art is great and the story is garbage. Torture Porn is what I'd call this. Disgusting depictions of some of the most Iconic characters in Comics. The writing is overly repetitive and just plain bad. Don't walk away from this one, run.
 Frank, I take back everything I said October 14, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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????!
... September 27, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
imagine batman the way it's supposed to be written
and the drawings are amazing.
jim lee and frank miller ... perfecto!
Illiterate garbage for role playing nerds September 19, 2008
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
Want to see Batman as a jack-booted fascist? Fancy the idea of Black Canary as a pr***-teasing tart? Always fantasised about Wonder Woman as an embittered lesbian? Relish the thought of Green Lantern choking on his own blood? Applaud a 12-year-old boy hacking limbs with a pick axe?
Don't read novels? Worship Norris/Diesel/Van Damme et al? Prefer your own services to engaging with a female?
Jim Lee's pathetic,soft-porn, anatomically incompetent artwork and Frank Miller's mono-syllabic macho-trash scripting are just for you.
Enjoy.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME/MONEY September 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the most disappointing, and infuriating at times, comic I have read in YEARS. The only saving grace is Jim Lee's artwork, which is quite good. Not "Batman: Hush" good, but still exemplary (especially his rendering of Vicky Vale - WOW). It's apparent in this work that Frank Miller has completely moved on from Batman creatively, mentally, and emotionally. Because this is NOT a Batman story. It's Sin City with people that dress up like bats. It's angry in a loud, obnoxious way - an absurdly over-the-top swear-fest that repeatedly slaps the reader in the face rather than immersing them in a good story. Instead of creating a compelling character that's enjoyable to read, Miller decided to make Batman a loudmouthed ***hole who laughs in maniacal Joker-style while mowing down cops with the Batmobile. He's not dark or brooding or even scary - he's just annoying. I'm the first to aknowledge Miller's genius in "The Dark Knight Returns", but those days are over. If you want to read an All-Star series that's not just WORTH your time, but DEMANDS it, pick up All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. In fact, maybe someone should mail a copy to Frank.
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