Dark Knight Strikes Again Vs All Star Batman Reddit
| All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder | |
|---|---|
 Encompass of All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder #i; art by Jim Lee and Scott Williams. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Irregular |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre |
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| Publication date | 2005–2008 |
| Primary character(south) | Batman Robin |
| Creative squad | |
| Written past | Frank Miller |
| Penciller(s) | Jim Lee |
| Inker(s) | Scott Williams |
| Letterer(s) | Jared Yard. Fletcher |
| Colorist(due south) | Alex Sinclair |
| Editor(due south) | Brandon Montclare Bob Schreck |
| Collected editions | |
| Volume ane | ISBN 1-4012-1681-one |
All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder is an American comic book series written past Frank Miller and penciled by Jim Lee. It was published by DC Comics, with a sporadic schedule, between 2005[1] and 2008. The series was to exist rebooted under the title Dark Knight: Boy Wonder in 2011, when both Miller and Lee were to finish the final half dozen issues. The serial retells the origin story of Dick Grayson, who became Batman'southward sidekick Robin.
This was the beginning series to be launched in 2005 under DC's All Star banner. These series are helmed by renowned writers and artists in the American comic book industry and attempt to retell some of the history of prominent DC Universe characters, but exterior of DC Universe continuity, and not be restricted by it, in society to appeal to new and returning readers. Each title under the All Star banner is set in its own continuity and separate universe.[ii] According to Miller, the serial takes identify in the aforementioned continuity equally Miller's other Batman-related works, such as The Dark Knight Returns.
Since its initial publication, Miller's writing of All Star Batman has consistently received an overwhelmingly negative disquisitional response, though Lee'south artwork has been praised.
Story [edit]
Bruce Wayne and Vicki Vale are at the circus watching The Flying Graysons, an acrobat family consisting of 12-year-erstwhile Dick Grayson and his parents. When Dick'southward parents are shot to death by a hitting man, Dick is escorted from the scene by several cops of the Gotham City Police Section in a threatening manner. Batman swiftly subdues the killer, Jocko-Male child Vanzetti and and then rescues Dick from the constabulary, damaging both a police cruiser and the car which Vicki and Alfred Pennyworth are in, injuring Vicki in the process. The stern Batman tells Dick that he has been "drafted into a state of war", and that he will learn much about fighting crime. Batman brings Dick to the Batcave and leaves him there to his ain devices, telling him upon leaving that when hungry, Dick may consume the rats and bats in the cave.
After being informed that Vicki has been hospitalized in critical status, Batman instructs Alfred to contact Clark Kent at the Daily Planet, to request he immediately transport a Parisian doctor that Batman knows equally a personal favor. After Alfred provides Dick with food and clothes, Batman and Alfred become into a heated argument, simply Batman backs off when Alfred asserts himself.
The Justice League, consisting of Superman, Wonder Woman, Plastic Man and Green Lantern, disagree on how to deal with Batman's actions. Wonder Woman wishes to impale him, but agrees to look until later Green Lantern has had a adventure to speak with Batman.
A disturbed Batman spends the subsequent evenings violently dispatching attempted rapists and other criminals until he spots a police cruiser escorting Jocko-Boy Vanzetti away from jail, and returning to Vanzetti the gun he used to murder the Graysons. Batman dispatches the corrupt policeman and beats Vanzetti into unconsciousness.
Batman subsequently comes to the assist of the Black Canary, who is fighting a group of thugs. After defeating the criminals, the 2 masked crimefighters share a romantic interlude, before Batman takes the Canary home, with Vanzetti spring and gagged in the Batmobile's trunk. Batman and Dick manage to force from Jocko-Boy the proper name of the person who hired him: the Joker. Dick wants to fight crime with Batman, only Batman says he needs a secret identity.
After Batman leaves the cave to dump Jocko-Boy in the river, he then encounters Green Lantern, and addresses him past his surname, Jordan, bewildering Lantern equally to how he knew his true identity. Batman gives Jordan an address to encounter him at in 12 hours. Meanwhile, the Joker goes to come across Catwoman, and invites her to join him in "some mischief".
Dick creates a costume that includes a hood, basing it on Robin Hood, just Batman points out that an opponent tin easily pull the hood down over his head. Batman tells him to lose the hood and names him Robin. Dick receives a new costume made by Alfred.
Batman and Robin adorn themselves in yellowish torso paint and costumes, and encounter Green Lantern in a room painted entirely in yellow, since Green Lantern's ability band has no effect on annihilation yellow in colour. Lantern tries to persuade Batman that his methods are non acceptable, either to the superhero customs or the globe at large, but Batman dismisses his concerns, and denies Lantern's claim that Robin is Dick Grayson. Robin so steals Light-green Lantern'due south power ring, leading to a fight in which Lantern is most killed. Batman then takes Robin to his parents' graves, where they share a moment of common grief.
A police force officer discovers a beaten and badly bleeding Catwoman. Before vanishing, she passes him a message, that Helm Jim Gordon later passes to Batman. He and Robin find her underground.[3]
Jim Gordon learns his wife has been in an accident, due to her alcoholism. At the same time his daughter, dressed as Batgirl, is fighting criminal offense. The Blackness Canary robs a group of snuff pic makers and gain to set them on fire. Batgirl is later arrested, and Jim is shown to be deeply depressed when he calls his former lover Sarah at the proposition of his daughter.
Covers [edit]
The first issue launched with four different covers. 3 of them were illustrated past Jim Lee—1 sporting Batman, the other Robin and one a sketch variant of Batman. Frank Miller illustrated the fourth. Since and so, Frank Miller has fatigued variant covers for the serial. With the exception of issue #2, the Miller covers are sold in 1:ten ratios. For outcome #8 and #nine, the variant covers were drawn past Neal Adams. The comprehend for #ten was drawn by Frank Quitely.
Continuity [edit]
The All Star titles are cocky-contained story arcs existing outside of official DC Comics continuity. Despite sharing a label with Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman, All Star Batman & Robin exists in its own continuity unrelated to other books in the All Star imprint.[2]
Frank Miller has likewise stated that All Star Batman & Robin does exist in the aforementioned continuity as the other storylines in his Nighttime Knight Universe. This consists of Miller'south Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, its sequel Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Batman: Twelvemonth I and the Frank Miller/Todd McFarlane collaboration Spawn/Batman. Of these, only Twelvemonth One is considered approved to the mainstream DC Universe. This has been proven difficult as The Night Knight Returns is set during the Cold State of war with an older Batman while All Star Batman & Robin features a younger Batman in a more than modern setting, specifically 2008.[4] An additional story, titled Holy Terror, Batman!, was also to be included within the same continuity, only in 2010, Miller stated that he was no longer working on the project.[v] He later on clarified his statement past explaining that it would feature a new graphic symbol chosen The Fixer rather than Batman, and not exist published past DC.[6] [seven] In 2007, Frank Miller's "Dark Knight Universe" was officially designated every bit Globe-31 within the new DC Comics Multiverse composed of 52 alternate universes.[8]
Morrison has stated that they were uncertain whether their Superman and the version featured in All Star Batman & Robin are the same due to the dramatic time differences betwixt the two books: "I don't know if it would take worked. For me, I guess I practise meet it all taking place in the same world fifty-fifty though they seem like very different characters. Frank Miller is doing Batman at the offset of his career and I am doing Superman at the very stop of his life, in the years beyond All Star Batman. But information technology could be the same character as far as I am concerned. That'southward where they may have ended up".[ix]
Reception [edit]
Sales [edit]
The serial' kickoff outcome sold over 300,000 copies.[10] The once-monthly series became increasingly delayed over time, to the bespeak where simply one upshot was published in 2006. When outcome #5 was released, the serial was placed on a regular bi-monthly schedule, with the exception of issue #x, which was postponed from an April 9, 2008 release to an August 27 release, and so to a September 10 release, which it successfully met, only for the book to exist recalled due to a printing error that left numerous profanities insufficiently censored.[11] That printing mistake aside, Jim Lee took full responsibilities for the series' delays, explaining that he was involved with the DC Universe Online video game, and that Miller's scripts had been written some time earlier.[12] [13] [fourteen]
Despite drops in sales since the first issue, All Star Batman & Robin issues regularly topped DC Comics' highest-selling nautical chart on the months when they came out.[15]
Disquisitional reception [edit]
Initially released with great fanfare and much anticipation, All Star Batman has consistently received negative reviews from critics. About all complaints nigh the serial are directed at Frank Miller's writing, specifically his non-traditional interpretation of the main character. In the serial to engagement, Batman is consistently displayed every bit cruel, amoral, and sadistic, eager to torture and kill criminals and indifferent to harming civilians who go in his way. Infamous examples of this include his verbal and physical abuse of Dick Grayson in an endeavour to prevent him from grieving over his parents' deaths, and his throwing a Molotov cocktail into a oversupply during a fight.[xvi]
The infamous and often-repeated line from All Star Batman & Robin #2.
In upshot #2 Miller's gritty mode of dialogue led the title grapheme to introduce himself to Grayson as "the Goddamn Batman". The phrase was repeated at to the lowest degree once in nearly every subsequent issue of the comic. According to reviewer Brett Weiss, the line "drew derision from fans and critics akin".[17]
Reviewer Peter Sanderson of IGN Comics, while acknowledging that the series is "widely reviled", and opining that DC Comics' publicity for the serial was "misleading", suggested that Batman's treatment of Grayson was comparable to a drill sergeant'due south treatment of a new recruit, but questioned whether this would only traumatize Grayson further. He nonetheless claimed to exist "fascinated" with how this behavior reveals Batman'south personality, likening his rough treatment of Grayson to the psychologically frightening experience to which V subjected Evey Hammond in 5 for Vendetta. Sanderson as well pointed out that Miller'due south view of All Star Batman & Robin every bit prequels to his graphic novels Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: The Night Knight Strikes Again suggests that the darker, grittier take on Batman and his more dysfunctional relationship with Robin make sense when taken in context, and that Batman's rough handling of Dick Grayson reveals a lot about the inner workings of Batman'due south personality.[iv] Reviewer Brett Weiss, in the Comics Buyer'due south Guide #1636 (December 2007), gave the first effect of the series loftier marks for beingness interesting and edgy, only opined that past issue #half dozen, the series became "a bad joke", citing the series' "absurdly bad, imitation-noir dialogue", and presenting Batman "as a psychopath, as opposed to only dark and disturbed." Weiss praised Jim Lee's art equally "gorgeous", but opined that it was wasted on the championship, which he saw equally "something that seems to be bad on purpose".[17] The series is too known for the recalled issue #10, in which a printing mistake allowed the word "fuck" to be published uncensored. Unreturned copies were later sold on eBay at inflated prices.[1] [18]
Comics journalist Cliff Biggers, in Comic Shop News #1064 (November 7, 2007), called the series "one of the biggest train wrecks in comics history", proverb that Miller overlooked every aspect of Batman's character in guild to tell "a Sin City story in bat-garb". Reviewing outcome #7, Biggers excoriated the sequence with Batman and Black Canary equally "farcical" and "Tarantinoesque", arguing that Miller's work could not get worse. Biggers gave the issue a "D", explaining that it would exist an "F" if not for Jim Lee'due south fine art, and suggested that to save the work, DC should reprint the book with blank word balloons and let readers submit their ain scripts. Reviewing the commencement 3 bug of the series, William Gatevackes of PopMatters said that "[Jim Lee's art] is beautiful [merely] cannot make upwardly for the writing or the holes in the storytelling". Gatevackes criticized the plot as lacking, proverb that "it seems like [Miller is] expanding four issues of story over 20 issues of the volume". Gatevackes compared All Star Batman & Robin unfavorably to Miller's previous work: "One is puzzled equally to what happened to the Frank Miller who gained his fame on Daredevil, Ronin, and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Tin can he come dorsum? Because until he does, All Star Batman and Robin should be avoided at all costs".[16]
Iann Robinson, writing for CraveOnline, wrote an essay disquisitional of All Star Batman & Robin, calling it "a comic series that only spirals deeper and deeper into the abyss of unreadable. I understand Miller's demand to re-invent, merely this is just badly washed and in poor taste". Robinson commented that "the art past Jim Lee is first rate [and] really wonderful to look at, [but] Frank Miller has stripped Batman of all of his dignity, course, and honor. This isn't the Dark Knight; this is Dirty Harry in a cowl. The worst role is that this is exactly what Batman isn't about. In one fell swoop, Miller has erased all the good he did for Batman with The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year 1. All of that is just gone".[19]
The book as well has its defenders. Jon Morris, writing for The High Lid, named All Star Batman & Robin i of the best superhero comics of 2006, finding All Star's take on Batman "an intriguing alternative take on a grapheme long reimagined to the point of incoherence. Surely the readers equally a whole accept seen Batman the tortured soul, Batman the awkward father figure, Batman the authoritarian and Batman the zillion-other-paternal character archetypes countless times before nether the stewardship of a few dozen other authors; why non for a scant twelve problems have a volume nigh a Batman who might just be what a command-obsessed, Kevlar-suited sadist would be like in real life — which is to say "distinctly unpleasant"? It's unsavory, sure, simply who buys Batman comics because he's warm and cuddly?"[20]
Unproduced sequel [edit]
Later on the serial encountered a hiatus of nearly two years, DC Comics announced on April two, 2010 that Miller and Lee would return to the series in 2011. Instead of falling under the "All Star" imprint, the series was to exist re-branded as Dark Knight: Male child Wonder , and would run for six issues, completing the story Miller originally intended to tell.[21] As of 2022, withal, this series has yet to be published.[22]
Nerveless editions [edit]
The series has been collected into the following volumes:
| Title | Material collected | Hardcover | Paperback |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder Volume one | | ISBN 1-4012-1681-ane[23] | ISBN one-4012-2008-eight |
| Title | Material nerveless | Hardcover | |
| Absolute All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder Volume 1 | | ISBN one-4012-4763-half-dozen |
Notes [edit]
- ^ a b Geoff Boucher (September xi, 2008). "'Batman and Robin' drops F-bomb, Frank Miller calls information technology 'terrible and glorious'". Los Angeles . Retrieved May 29, 2013.
- ^ a b "Toronto 06: Geoff Johns Talks All Star Batgirl". Newsarama. September 3, 2006 Archived Nov nineteen, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Miller, Frank (westward), Lee, Jim (p). All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #x. DC Comics.
- ^ a b Sanderson, Peter "Comics in Context #119: All-Star Bats", IGN, February 6, 2006
- ^ Nadel, Nick (April 13, 2010). "Frank Miller Confirms He's No Longer Doing 'Holy Terror, Batman!'". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved 2010-09-12 .
- ^ Johnston, Rich (July 29, 2008). "LYING IN THE GUTTERS Volume 2 Cavalcade 168". Comic Book Resources.
- ^ Kelly, Karl (July 26, 2011). "CCI: Frank Miller Reigns "Holy Terror" on San Diego". Comic Volume Resource.
- ^ De Blieck Jr., Augie (December 28, 2007). "THE COMMENTARY Runway: 'Countdown: Arena' #four westward/ Keith Champagne". Comic Volume Resources.
- ^ Renaud, Jeffrey (April 17, 2008). "All Star Morrison III: Superman". Comic Volume Resources.
- ^ Frisch, Marc-Oliver (July iv, 2006). "DC Sales, May 2006". From ICV2 & archived at Google Groups. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
- ^ Johnston, Rich (September 9, 2008). "Wash Your Oral fissure Out with Batsoap". Comic Book Resources.
- ^ Barringer, John (August ane, 2009). "All Star Batman and Robin Update: Jim Lee Interview". A Comic Book Web log.
- ^ Montgomery, Paul (Apr 2, 2010). "All-Star Batman and Robin to Conclude Side by side Twelvemonth…Sort of". iFanboy.
- ^ Frankenhoff, Brent. (June vi, 2006). "All-Star Batman and Robin #5 delays cease". CBG Xtra.
- ^ "DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales February 2008". The Shell. April 2, 2008
- ^ a b Gatevackes, William (February 10, 2006). "All-Star Batman & Robin #1-three". PopMatters. Archived from the original on March 14, 2009.
- ^ a b Weiss, Brett. Comics Buyer's Guide #1636 (December 2007). Page 59.
- ^ Rubens, Scott (September 11, 2008). "Batman Comic Recalled For Foul Language". Archived from the original on Feb 26, 2014. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
- ^ Robinson, Iann (December 17, 2007). "All Star Batman and Robin". CraveOnline. Archived from the original on January fourteen, 2009.
- ^ Morris, Jon. "The Year In Tights: The Best (and Worst) Superhero Comics of 2006". The High Hat. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
- ^ Segura, Alex (Apr 2, 2010). "What'south Next for Frank Miller and Jim Lee?". DC Universe: The Source.
- ^ Moore, Benjamin (September 29, 2015). "Frank Miller's 'All-Star Batman And Robin,' The Worst Comic Always, Might Finally Get An Ending". Forbes. Retrieved April xx, 2019.
- ^ All Star Batman and Robin the Male child Wonder, Volume 1. DC Comics. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
External links [edit]
- All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder at the Chiliad Comics Database
- Jim Lee on All Star Batman, Newsarama, June 1, 2005
- Frank Miller Talks All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder, Newsarama, June 7, 2005
- Encompass gallery by Jim Lee
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Star_Batman_&_Robin,_the_Boy_Wonder
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