All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder is an American comic book series written by Frank Miller and penciled by Jim Lee.

The series was to be rebooted under the title Dark Knight: Boy Wonder in 2011, when both Miller and Lee were to finish the last six issues.

Since its initial publication, Miller's writing of All Star Batman has consistently received an overwhelmingly negative critical response, though Lee's artwork has been praised.

The Justice League, consisting of Superman, Wonder Woman, Plastic Man and Green Lantern, disagree on how to deal with Batman's actions.

After defeating the criminals, the two masked crimefighters have sex, before Batman takes the Canary home, with Vanzetti bound and gagged in the Batmobile's trunk.

[2] Frank Miller has also stated that All Star Batman & Robin does exist in the same continuity as the other storylines in his Dark Knight Universe.

[4] An additional story, titled Holy Terror, Batman!, was also to be included within the same continuity, but in 2010, Miller stated that he was no longer working on the project.

[10] That printing error 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.

[14] Initially released with great fanfare and much anticipation, All Star Batman has consistently received negative reviews from critics.

In the series to date, Batman is consistently displayed as cruel, amoral, and sadistic, eager to torture and kill criminals and indifferent to harming civilians who get in his way.

Infamous examples of this include his verbal and physical abuse of Dick Grayson in an attempt to prevent him from grieving over his parents' deaths, and his throwing a Molotov cocktail into a crowd during a fight.

[15] In issue #2 Miller's gritty style of dialogue led the title character to introduce himself to Grayson as "the Goddamn Batman".

[16] Reviewer Peter Sanderson of IGN Comics, while acknowledging that the series is "widely reviled", and opining that DC Comics' publicity for the series was "misleading", suggested that Batman's treatment of Grayson was comparable to a drill sergeant's treatment of a new recruit, but questioned whether this would merely traumatize Grayson further.

He nonetheless claimed to be "fascinated" with how this behavior reveals Batman's personality, likening his rough treatment of Grayson to the psychologically frightening experience to which V subjected Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta.

Reviewing issue #7, Biggers excoriated the sequence with Batman and Black Canary as "farcical" and "Tarantinoesque", arguing that Miller's work could not get worse.

Biggers gave the issue a "D", explaining that it would be an "F" if not for Jim Lee's art, and suggested that to salvage the work, DC should reprint the book with blank word balloons and let readers submit their own scripts.

Reviewing the first three issues of the series, William Gatevackes of PopMatters said that "[Jim Lee's art] is beautiful [but] cannot make up for the writing or the holes in the storytelling".

Robinson commented that "the art by Jim Lee is first rate [and] really wonderful to look at, [but] Frank Miller has stripped Batman of all of his dignity, class, and honor.

Instead of falling under the "All Star" imprint, the series was to be re-branded as Dark Knight: Boy Wonder, and would run for six issues, completing the story Miller originally intended to tell.