Required reading from the week in books and comics.

"Batman & Robin Volume 1: Batman Reborn" collects the first six issues of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's hit series, which finds former Robin Dick Grayson pulling on the Bat-cowl for the dearly departed Bruce Wayne. Except Bruce isn't dead! He's traveling through time for some reason. Oh, those crazy comic books!

Also in stores:
-- Is there a better title for a book than "When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead," "Ocean's 11" producer Jerry Weintraub's autobiography about his years in the Hollywood trenches? It's the kind of line you can totally hear him barking at a production assistant on the set of some bloated, over-budget blockbuster.
-- "Luke Cage Noir" casts the Marvel tough guy in a moody, period crime tale that's refreshingly free of Cage's "Sweet Christmas!" catchphrase from the '70s.
-- We were going to skip "Oprah: A Biography" until we realized it's written by Kitty Kelley, author of the Bush dynasty expose "The Family." At the very least, there should be some juicy Stedman anecdotes.