THIS! This is what I miss from reading comics. Good artwork & better writing. I’ll be honest, I’ve never liked Jason Todd as a character & liked him even less when I heard they were bringing him back from the dead. Nobody stays dead in comics unless your name is Thomas & Martha Wayne or Uncle Ben. Judd Winick does a decent job of writing Jason Todd (Red Hood) although I think he makes him almost too smooth. I couldn’t put this volume down & had it read in a day.

(B+) 77% | GoodNotes: Cornell carries on with concept foes, Tomasi calls back to his Nightwing run, and Winick continues to own Red Hood.

This final Batman and Robin volume before the "New 52" relaunch under Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason actually features their first work with the Dynamic Duo, plus a few other creative treats. In some respects it'll be completely impenetrable to the unsuspecting reader. So that's why you have someone like me to fill in the blanks.(Heh.)The volume begins with Paul Cornell and Scott McDaniel telling a story about what happens when someone leaves an impossible void to fill. Cornell (a brilliant...

Update: So, this is still pretty damn good. Unfortunately, the art took a turn for the worst in the last 2 issues and it pained me to look at it. I still really like that story with Jason Todd but I wish they'd kept the artist that did the first part of that arc.This is my favorite out of the Dick Grayson!Batman and Damian!Robin series. There are 3 arcs here and I loved everyone of them. For once, every villain had depth and held my interest. So, each story is written and drawn by different team...

Not a big fan of this book and you could just see by the writing that Grant Morrison left the project. The first story about the woman with a damn whole in the head? That was creative but not my thing at all. I don't know where she came from all of a sudden and what was going on in the first place. The White Knight had his moments though it felt very shoe-horned in the whole. The Jason Todd story was pretty entertaining in the end and left me closing this book with a good taste.

Wrote a pretty long review of this on my iPhone right before the Goodreads app crashed, so let me just sum that sucker up.Three stories, none amazing.First one is oddly misogynist (villain is a scorned woman who literally has a hole in her head) and never explains how the main villain is able to brainwash dozens of people to work for her. Cause she's a wily woman, I guess? This had to have been written in the 50s.Second story again does not explain HOW the main villain is able to do all the stuf...

The first "Batman & Robin" collection that's not written by Grant Morrison, and let me tell you... it shows (in a good way!). What we've got here are three 3-issue story arcs, each written and illustrated by different creative teams. By now, for this series anyway, we've all become accustomed to having a new artist for each new story arc. This is the first time however that different writers get to play with these characters. The stories read well and flow nicely. The only thing I might have a p...

Batman and Robin: Dark Knight vs. White Knight picks up where the previous volume left off, collecting the last nine issues (Batman and Robin #17–25) of the 2009 on-going series and covers three stories: "The Sum of Her Parts", "Dark Knight vs. White Knight, Tree of Blood" and "The Streets Run Red"."The Sum of Her Parts" is a three-issue storyline (Batman and Robin #17–19), which has Dick Grayson as Batman and Damian Wayne as Robin investigates the murky depth of Bruce Wayne’s past to protect hi...

This is a collection of three three-issue stories featuring the Dick Grayson Batman/Damien Wayne Robin duo. They tangle with three villains, two new, one old: Una Nemo, a socialite who undergoes a dramatic change in her appearance thwarting a heist; the White Knight, an angelic psycho who is killing relatives of Arkham Asylum's inmates; and finally Jason Todd aka the Red Hood.I thought the White Knight storyline was pretty good, it was pretty graphic in its murders and also quite striking in its...

This is the worst Batman novel that I have ever read.

In “The Sum of Her Parts”, Cornell does a great job of capturing the weirdness of Morrison’s Batman & Robin, with Absence feeling like she fits in the same world as Pyg — but the story doesn’t have the depth that Morrison’s did, possibly because Cornell was working with a much smaller canvas [6.5/10]. Tomasi’s “Tree of Blood” seems to similarly create a new weird villain, but without nearly as much luck. We get a mundane story that is never that interesting, other than a couple of nice character...

Wow.I am thoroughly shocked by how much I really enjoyed reading Dark Knight vs. White Knight. I started reading this with the expectation that I would probably hate it, especially after the cluster-fuck that was Batman and Robin, Vol. 3: Batman and Robin Must Die!. As I've mentioned before, Grant Morrison did an excellent job on the first and second volumes, only to go off the rails for the third.If there is a fine line between genius and insanity, then Morrison walks that line with all the gra...

So this is actually 3 different stories in one. They all vary in quality but let's just say the first story doesn't do the rest of this book justice. So we start off with one of the weirdest/dumbest villains ever. Una Nemo has a big ass hole in her head and decides she has to kill people. Batman (Dick) and Robin (Damien) go to stop her. On top of that we get another story, which is the title, Dark Knight vs White Knight, which is the highlight of the entire collection. This one is about Batman a...

Although Batman and Robin Must Die! was probably the worst graphic novel I read this year I'm glad I gave the series another chance. ('m reading them all out of order - not by choice - and unfortunately the aforementioned Vol. 3 was the first one I was able to acquire.) Dick and Damien, with assistance from the dependable Alfred, make a great team. The title story - the second of three in this edition - was probably the best of the bunch.

This is a collection of Batman (Grayson) and Robin (Damien) tales. The first tale is AWFUL. Had that been the mainstay this thing would have gotten 1 star. A garbage tale filled with feminist tropes that are beyond annoying. A few things- (1) Bruce Wayne is really, really rich. Only a few others Luthor, etc even come close to matching him. So when the Una Nemo (what kind of stupid name is that? if you're going to create an ethnic character-how about doing some small research on ethnic names) dec...

It was okay.I would rate the first 3 issues 2 stars. I just couldn’t get into the villain at all. It was too hard to take somebody with an inconsistently drawn giant hole in their head seriously.The second part about the “White Knight” was a little better, but honestly not much so 3 stars.The last part was the best part and Judd Winick really knows how to write Jason Todd. It would have been nice if we could have had the same artist throughout but it didn’t detract too much. 3.5 stars

At least this series ends on a high note.This volume has three main story lines, the first of which was my least favorite. Some lady with a hole in her head has a grudge against Bruce Wayne because he didn't love her...The second and title story was my favorite. It was dark and creepy and violent plus we get a few Arkham scenes. The villain's origin felt a little hokey, but he looked cool and had a pretty interesting MO.Rounding out the volume was a story about Jason Todd AKA Red Hood, so your e...

3 different stories, each having 3 parts. Not bad. I had to do some research into Batman Inc. I didn't know this was the third volume in the Batman & Robin series when I barrowed from the library. In this series Batman is Dick Grayson (formerly Robin) and Robin is Damian Wayne. I am looking forward to back-tracking.

After Grant Morrison finished his fantastic run on Batman & Robin, the series itself, bafflingly, lasted for 9 more issues, with three writers producing three 3-issue arcs to cap the book off. It's no wonder that this volume is left mostly forgotten nowadays, because none of the stories here are especially good or interesting.Paul Cornell wrote probably the best arc of the bunch about a woman who was mistreated by Bruce Wayne and decided to get revenge — it had an interesting premise and a prett...

I know they say „don’t judge a book by it’s cover”, but that’s exactly what I did with this book. I really liked the cover and thought it would be a great book because of it. But this is just ok, a bit mediocre. There are 3 stories included in this book. Each of them had something I liked, but for several reasons didn’t get passed the „ok-mark”. The first story had a really interesting villain, with an interesting backstory, but the art really ruined it for me. It needed an entirely different ki...