![]() ![]() However, reading the book was a brand new experience for me, and one I found equal parts disturbing and perplexing. In Arkham Asylum, Morrison and McKean created a backstory to the building, telling the sad, sordid and grotesque tale of its founder, Amadeus Arkham, juxtaposed beside Batman’s own journey through the asylum’s halls, as he faces off against some of his most notorious bad guys.Īt the time of Arkham Asylum‘s release, I was almost thirteen years old, and an avowed horror fan. I didn’t know either creator’s works, but this was going to be a horror story featuring The Dark Knight, and I was all in on that front.įor the uninitiated, Arkham is where the majority of Batman’s rogue’s gallery are locked up until their eventual breakout this is comics, after all, so nobody’s stay at Arkham was ever permanent. The book was Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, and for many burgeoning comic book fans, it was the first taste of the talents of soon to be industry icons, writer Grant Morrison and artist Dave McKean. One that took one of my favourite characters, Batman, into the depths of madness. I also remember being so excited because David was dropping off a hardcover comic book we’d both been waiting for. I remember the phone call, where the lovely young girl in question finally agreed that we should go out. Whatever that meant when you’re thirteen years old back then, I thought it meant hand holding and maybe, just maybe a kiss or two. I remember that, because that Friday night was when my grade school crush finally agreed to go out with me. ![]() My guess is that they were out for something else, and were going to drop by the shop on their way home. For some reason though, on this particular Friday, David and his Dad went without me. I know it was a Friday night, because Friday’s were the night I would usually go with my friend David and his father to the comic book shop to pick up our weekly wares. This special edition also includes Morrison's complete original script, annotated by Morrison and editor Karen Berger, many of his original thumbnail breakdowns, step-by-step samples of how the story and art came together and much more.It was October 1989. The classic confrontation between the Dark Knight and his archnemeses, this story is well known for its psychological intensity and probing portraits of Batman and the Joker.ARKHAM ASYLUM includes groundbreaking art that influenced scores of artists by introducing a new school of storytelling and technique to comics. careers of Grant Morrison and Dave McKean. During his run through this absurd gauntlet, the Dark Knight's must face down both his most dangerous foes and his inner demons.This is the critically acclaimed Batman story that helped launch the U.S. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to endure the personal hells of the Joker, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face and many other sworn enemies in order to save the innocents and retake the prison. The inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham's detention center for the criminally insane on April Fool's Day, demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages. ![]()
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