Sounds like any random Marvel character, but you wouldn’t complain if that was the case.

Can you name me a top Marvel superhero that has been in continuous print for the past 30 years yet has not won a SINGLE FIGHT AGAINST A DECENT OPPONENT? Please name me one.

Also, name me the last 3 impressive hand-to-hand victories Dick Grayson has had against respected opponents?

I am judging the character on who he is under Wolfman: a character trained from birth to do one thing who has grown up to do it incompetently for the past 30 years and has daddy issues to boot.

Sounds like any random Marvel character, but you wouldn't complain if that was the case.

As for the apparent "death" of the All Star line? Again, mixed feelings. On the one hand I was glad we had it, if only as a venue for Morrison to tell Superman stories he would not have gotten out of his system otherwise. BUT do we really need a "line" or "trade dress" for these stories. Can't DC just say - "Hey everybody, Grant Morrison and Carmine Infantino are going to do a special Flash miniseries that has nothing to do with the current series and is their own vision of this classic character. Look for issue one in December!"
Comics are so insular at this point that I find it hard to believe a majority of readers won't figure out what's in and out of continuity and which titles they want to buy.

And when you think about it it was hard to say exactly WHAT All-Star was supposed to be? Did the powers that be ever really have a clear vision/definition of what fit the All Star line?
Morrison on a kind of out-of/in-continuity Superman that honored the Silver Age with subtle winks at other incarnations and a heavy dose of Morrison's own DC One Million? That fit the bill. Morrison is about as All Star as they come.
So is Miller, like him or hate him and his equally "out of continuity" Dark Knight.
But where do you go from there? It seemed like the other All Star titles were all just excuses to get "hot" creators like Geoff Johns writing a certain character. Would they be "out of continuity"? And really, is someone an All Star when they're already writing like ten DCU books (I'm looking at you, Geoff Johns).
JUSTICE by Alex Ross and Jim Krueger fit the bill perfectly, but it wasn't sold as an All Star title.
So to me the writing was kind of on the wall for this concept.

Wow, T, I’d agree if superheroes were pro wrestlers and needed to get heat based on who they did and didn’t beat in hand-to-hand combat.

So you're going to claim that a character's competence in their life's calling is irrelevant? The whole point of the character's existence is to fight crime and beat criminals. It's a superhero comic, and thanks to Wolfman Dick Grayson is incompetent at his main purpose in life, beating up criminals. Fight competency is not an irrelevant secondary trait, otherwise there wouldn't be fights in almost every issue of a superhero comic.

I am judging the character on who he is under Wolfman: a character trained from birth to do one thing who has grown up to do it incompetently for the past 30 years and has daddy issues to boot. At least with ASSBAR, Millar breaks the Wolfman cycle and actually writes a Dick grayson that can win a fight and who you can actually picture taking over for Batman one day.

Quitely said recently that his next project was going to be something with Grant, it just has to be confirmed. Probably won’t be Superman, but it probably will be awesome.

All Star Anima?

It would get people talking...

Quitely said recently that his next project was going to be something with Grant, it just has to be confirmed. Probably won't be Superman, but it probably will be awesome.

I thought it was a given that that the series would be canceled after #12 because the All Star line was being canceled altogether because of the lateness problems. Maybe I’m just reading too much rampant speculation

I think the making money part outweighs the lateness problem.

The book was always planned as 12 issues, so it wasn't canceled.
Neither was The Sandman, Starman or Preacher.

This makes it sound like that will not be happening, doesn't it?

I mean, considering that the best we could previously hope for was Morrison doing some done-in-ones with various artists, the news that "Morrison and Frank Quitely did have more stories they wanted to tell" is great, IMO.

Perish forbid!

(... wait, seriously, one of the few good Dick Grayson stories? Okay, it's a decent version of him as Robin (although both Year Ones were more fun), but Dick's been one of the few DC characters that's been consistently well-written over the past two decades. Well, aside from the Bruce Jones stint and whatever parallel universe Winick's stuff exists in....)

I'm happy with the 12. Now give them to me in an oversized hardcover, DC. With sketchbooks and scripts and all the other fanboy jerk-off material.