Edited sentence: Against all expectations, Batman reciprocates the non-platonic affection and the tale ends with the septigenarian crimefighter about to embark on a sexual relationship with a girl easily young enough to be his own granddaughter.Also of concern was Miller's reiteration of several disturbing themes already explored several times in his Sin City stories, such as vastly trans-generational romance and brutally homophobic behaviour, in both cases here being enacted by Batman himself.Immediately following this act which some would describe as a hate-crime, Batman's current sidekick Catgirl (formerly the first female Robin, Carrie Kelly) declares her romantic, sexualised love for Batman.Many if not most readers were left frustrated by the series; however it did once again receive attention from outside the world of comics and again helped maintain Miller as one of the best known comic creators.Miller's repetition of these particular themes, and especially his use of them here, have caused some fans to question the writer/artist's apparent preoccupation with them.Of particular note were the final scenes of "DK2", in which the original Robin Dick Greyson is revealed to be a homosexual serial-killer who Batman proceeds to beat to a bloody pulp and ultimately kill, all while spouting humiliating homophobic epithets.While in the über-noir context of Sin City such topics seem relatively  at  home, applying them to Batman, even Miller's unprecedentedly anti-heroic take on Batman, purturbed and even enraged many fans