10 Most Inappropriate Batman Storylines

On paper, All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder had fans salivating at the prospect of something truly special. This was the writer of the iconic Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller, teaming up with one of the greatest artists in the history of the medium, Jim Lee, for a Dynamic Duo tale set in the same continuity as Miller's TDKR.

Regardless of anticipation and excitement, the end result for All-Star Batman & Robin was a total disappointment.

It took a painful three years to deliver ten issues of a title that irked readers for how it characterised certain familiar faces - especially the Caped Crusader.

One element of this run that particular took readers aback, was Batman and Black Canary hooking up on a rooftop. Y'know, mainly because of the heroine's long-standing relationship with Green Arrow.

Having watched the World's Greatest Detective pummel a bunch of thugs and set them on fire with a Molotov cocktail(!), the watching Canary internally says how turned on she is by seeing the "bunch of bleeding, burning heaps" and how she's "thunderstruck in love" with "the goddamn Batman".

The two then proceed to have sex with their suits on - "it's better that way", as Bruce says - before Canary's post-coital chatter involves mocking the goddamn Batman for calling his goddamn car the goddamn Batmobile.

While Jim Lee was, as per, on phenomenal form for All-Star Batman & Robin, we sadly got a Frank Miller who was more The Dark Knight Strikes Again than The Dark Knight Returns.