I understand Miller's need to re-invent, but this is just badly done and in poor taste." 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. This isn't the Dark Knight; this is Dirty Harry in a cowl. The worst part is that this is "exactly" what Batman isn't about." He added, "In one fell swoop, Miller has erased all the good he did for Batman with "" and "". All of that is just gone." The book also has its defenders. Jon Morris, writing for "The High Hat", named "All Star Batman & Robin" one of the best superhero comics of 2006, finding "All Star"'s take on the character "an intriguing alternative take on a character long reimagined to the point of incoherence. Surely the readers as a whole have seen Batman the tortured soul, Batman the awkward father figure, Batman the authoritarian and Batman the zillion-other-paternal character archetypes countless times before under the stewardship of a few dozen other authors; why not for a scant twelve issues have a book about a Batman who might just be what a control-obsessed, Kevlar-suited sadist would be like in real life — which is to say "distinctly unpleasant"? It’s unsavory, sure, but who buys Batman comics because he’s warm and cuddly?" After the series encountered a hiatus of nearly two years, DC Comics announced on April 2, 2010 that Miller and Lee would return to the series in 2011. Instead of falling under the "All Star" print, 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. However, this series was never published. The series has been collected into the following volume: