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The goal shouldn't be to make stuff "for kids," nor for supposedly "mature" audiences.
Some of the finest entertainment, and definitely successful in the marketplace and the wider culture, is genuinely all-ages.
I first got into comics reading Marv Wolfman's Titans stuff. Kids could read it, and older readers could appreciate a lot, too.
The crossover with Batman, "A Lonely Place of Dying," which introduced Tim Drake, was a brilliant exploration of such topics as grief, the process of growing up, and our emotional need for one another.
The difference between comics now, and comics back then: In the classic story "The Judas Contract," Wolfman and Perez did everything but outright tell you that Deathstroke, a man in his 50s, was having sex with his teenage accomplice Terra. Nowadays, they would probably depict a villain doing that on camera.
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