Two-Face, weaned from his two-headed coin and relying on a 78-card tarot deck for his decisions, has become a confused individual unable to decide when to go to the bathroom. Inside the madhouse we meet the Joker, whose obsession with Batman has taken on homosexual overtones. Certainly stabbing himself through the palm with a shard of broken glass isn't the sanest of actions. But it works astoundingly well, for the tale is told through the perspectives of insanity - the inmates, particularly the Joker, the staff, and even the Batman himself, whose obsession for justice would be thought a form of madness by many.Īnd let's not be too hasty to dismiss that notion.
He doesn't always color inside the lines. His characters aren't all neatly drawn, although they're always vividly rendered - and, at times, starkly realistic. The first thing you notice in the book is, of course, the art. It probably doesn't help that the founder, Amadeus Arkham, was himself crazy.) But in this story, the lunatics have taken over the asylum, and their condition for releasing their hostages isn't freedom. (This is how they explain the continued existence of mass murderers like the Joker the death penalty never threatens and even maximum security prisons are no obstacle because they're crazy, and so are housed in a medium security asylum where escape is, it seems, fairly easy. It didn't make me want to read the story.įunny how a book's apparent weakness becomes its strength.Īrkham Asylum is the place where all of Batman's bad guys go. The artwork was brutal, assaulting the senses, with distorted scenes and odd colors.
I wasn't impressed the first time I picked up Arkham Asylum. Rambles.NET: Batman: Arkham Asylum Batman: Arkham Asylum,
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