It brings me great sadness that I didn't enjoy this one that much. As I always say I admire Scott Snyder and enjoy the majority of his work. His Batman run in New52 MADE me a Batman fan. Black Mirror to me is the BEST Batman story ever made. All-Star Batman volume 1-2 were decent, some good moments. Volume 3? I think is the biggest drop in quality to be frank.

This is a story about Alfred. Yes, Bruce is here, but this isn't his time to shine. It's time to see a Batman mission in the eyes of his Butler and father figure. The idea is to hunt down Hush but after we get to the meat of the story we see Alfred's old past start to resurface and mixed in with the current time situation. When a old dark past figure shows up with Alfred be able to help save the Dark Knight once more?

Good: I enjoyed Alfred's mindset. Going into his view of Bruce on a mission was both refreshing and quite frankly kind of sad. It was also nice to see him call Bruce his son naturally. I mean we all knew it but we don't hear it enough. Also I think the art was REALLY good and a step above even volume 1-2.

Bad: The fights were uninspiring throughout. The stakes didn't feel high. Alfred's past history was pretty dull to be honest. I also really really found the extra story, the mafia story after the main story, to be awfully boring. I didn't care about that one at all.

Overall All-Star batman comes to a end (in this format) and I'm pretty sad because it leaves A LOT to be desired for me. Now don't get me wrong. I can't wait to read Metal. I think Scott LOVES Batman. But...maybe give him a new character to work on? I need fresh stories and these felt like kind of throwaway stories. A 2 out of 5.