I'm not a member of the cult of Grant Morrison. I liked what he did with the X-Men a few years back, but I didn't make it through the last giant re-boot of the DC Universe that he played a huge role in. His All-Star Superman left me scratching my head, and his previous Batman stories left me cold. Part of that was due to my lack of patience with a comic publisher 'killing' a major character. Anyone who thought that Bruce Wayne was actually going to stay dead should email me your credit card numbers immediately for a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity. 
 So this version of Batman & Robin had a lot of strikes against it before I even started. I actually thought the idea of the original Robin, Dick Grayson, having to fill Batman's cape could be an interesting story, but since I knew it just marking time until the return of Bruce Wayne, it's hard to get emotionally engaged in it. 
 (I've come around to a new way of thinking when it comes to the messy issue of comic book continuity. I'm renouncing my fanboy ways that demanded slavishly sticking to a character's past. It just leads to problems when aging makes a re-boot necessary, and it also means that a comic company will always return to a baseline version of the character no matter what stunts they pull. These days, I think we'd be better served to embrace a notion of multiple versions of characters that don't have to stick to what's gone before. 
 I'd be more interested in this story if Bruce Wayne was really dead. The Dark Knight Returns comic and The Dark Knight movie were powerful and interesting stories precisely because they gave us new chapters in the Batman mythos without having to one day return to the 'normal' Batman. Marvel used their Ultimate line of comics for a similar effect by giving us an updated version of the characters while leaving the older stuff in place in the original books. So if this was a spin-off story of some sort that told the story of Grayson trying to carry on the Batman name, it'd resonate better than knowing that Bruce is going to crawl out of the grave and take the keys to the Batmobile back at some point.) 
 Back to the book, it's actually a decent story. The new Robin is Bruce Wayne's illegitimate son Damian whose mother is Talia, the daughter of Batman's old enemy Ra's Al-Ghul. Apparently Batman forgot to load up the ultitily belt with a supply of bat-condoms one night and Damian was the result. 
 Damian is an arrogant brat who was raised by a league of killers and groomed to think that he's entitled to take a priviliged place as Bruce Wayne's kid. He's angry that circumstances have forced him to play sidekick to Grayson, who he thinks is a piss-poor Batman. Plus, the rumors about Batman's death have been circulating so both the cops and Gotham's criminal community aren't sure what to make of the new Dynamic Duo. 
 It's good writing with solid artwork. I like the concept of Dick Grayson and Alfred struggling to continue Bruce Wayne's legacy while dealing with his spoiled bastard. But knowing that it's all for nothing once the original Batman returns makes it seem kind of pointless.