When the supervillains get beat up, instead of going to regular jail they go to a supervillain mental hospital. Adults want to know, so in 1974 Dennis O'Neil wrote it into Batman continuity. When Batman is written for kids you don't really have to explain where the bad guys go after Batman beats them. On the other end of the spectrum of ridiculosity there's the idea of Arkham Asylum. The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Tim Burton's first Batman movie, and even Bruce Timm's Batman projects are all examples of adult Batman stories that aren't dull or completely ridiculous to me. The world of Batman is an amazing one and open to individual interpretation by the creative teams who work on it, but most of the the stuff made after the sixties seems wrong to me. That recent All-Star Superman was great, and Grant Morrison gets it, but most of the time the characters in these comics are operating on the same emotional level as they did when they were written for kids, but there's grisly crimes thrown in and the writers try to make these impossible worlds make sense. I love superheroes, but trying to aim DC or Marvel superhero stories at adults almost never works for me.
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