All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder

    (DC, 2005-2008)
™ and © 2005 DC Comics, Inc.

This issue just has to get the four-star treatment, right? It’s written by the genius responsible for the brilliant Batman: The Dark Knight and “Batman: Year One” and is drawn by Jim “Hush” Lee, one of the best modern Batman artists in the biz. So it’s entirely above reproach, right? Well, not quite. It’s very good, no doubt about it, even great at times, but let’s not be handing out any Eisner Awards just yet.

All Star Batman & Robin #1 is a beautifully drawn, tautly written piece of work that no fan of The Caped Crusader or The Boy Wonder should do without. Lee has apparently dispensed with pencils and other mundane tools of the trade in favor of a magic wand (check out the Robin cover, which virtually flies off the page), while Frank Miller’s film noir-influenced scripting is the literary equivalent of a flurry of punches from a prize fighter.

Traditionalists may find fault, however, with the gratuitous shots of a scantly clad Vicki Vale and with the sinister reworking of Dick Grayson’s origin.

— Brett Weiss
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