Trivia / All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder

• Creator's Pest: Frank Miller has stated in interviews that he thinks Green Lantern is worthless, and it shows. Which is curious, considering he wrote Hal as arguably the noblest character in The Dark Knight Strikes Again.
• Development Hell:
  • The series had an erratic shipping schedule even before going on hiatus, with the best that the publishers could do was a bi-monthly streak at one point. From 2005 to 2008, only ten issues launched of what was supposed to be a twelve-issue series.
  • In 2010, DC announced a new series called Dark Knight: Boy Wonder that would last six issues and wrap up the series. In October 2015, Frank Miller claims he's just started working on it. According to Jim Lee, the art for the series is complete, DC just won't publish it, the reasons possibly being that Miller attracts all the wrong attention (see Holy Terror) and the editor who originally commissioned Lee and Miller to do the book, Bob Schreck, was fired in 2009, about a year after the last issue came out (and went on to finally edit and publish Holy Terror at Legendary Comics). Although this may have changed, given that not only did he later help write Dark Knight III: The Master Race, but he also was recently revealed to be writing Superman: Year One for DC Black Label.
• Franchise Killer: The poor reception of this prompted DC to completely scrap the All-Star DC Comics line and replacing it with the Earth One line.
• Schedule Slip: One reason people went after plot points that are supposedly resolved later — this comic's release schedule was abominable. Jim Lee would later blame this on himself, saying all his other commitments delayed the art.
• What Could Have Been: Jeph Loeb was originally going to write the series, but because he was leaving for Marvel at the time, this didn't happen. Also, he and artist Art Adams were considered for writing the second story arc of the series.

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