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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
I feel like I need to add the caveat that I give this 4 stars possibly more for what it was trying to do and what it achieved in its time than for how it stands up today. I tried to go with three stars, but I just can't bring myself to dis the classics.
I love comic books, but this one didn't do it for me.
I didn't like the art style, even if it was quite beautiful. For me, this style of comic didn't do Batman justice. It seemed very messy to me, and it didn't let me focus. I think this art style could work well with other characters, but not one where I want to pay attention to detail. It just felt to fuzzy.
There's footnotes in this edition, which seems really weird to me. Why does a comic book need footnotes? Shouldn't you be able to get the point across within the story?
At least there was a script at the end to understand what was going on. It just seemed really weird to me that I had no honest idea what was happening. It didn't seem like a Batman comic, more like a parody of a Batman comic. Having to go back and forth between the comic and the script also left me incredibly frustrated. I don't understand how this comic book was supposed to hit audiences.
The idea of having the inmates takes over Arkham Asylum seems awesome and this could make for the best story, but this art style didn't do it justice. I could barely tell what characters were who, and I'm obsessed with Batman. I also didn't understand the haunted part of the plot.
I get this book was supposed to be a psychological thriller/horror that was supposed to attract adult and mature audiences, but it just didn't feel that way to me. The allusions and references went over my head, and I felt like there could have been so much more added to make it flow better.
Overall, this book was super frustrating for me. I wanted to love it (especially when I paid way to much to get my hands on this book) but I just couldn't. I had high expectations and it came short.
Two out of five stars.
I didn't like the art style, even if it was quite beautiful. For me, this style of comic didn't do Batman justice. It seemed very messy to me, and it didn't let me focus. I think this art style could work well with other characters, but not one where I want to pay attention to detail. It just felt to fuzzy.
There's footnotes in this edition, which seems really weird to me. Why does a comic book need footnotes? Shouldn't you be able to get the point across within the story?
At least there was a script at the end to understand what was going on. It just seemed really weird to me that I had no honest idea what was happening. It didn't seem like a Batman comic, more like a parody of a Batman comic. Having to go back and forth between the comic and the script also left me incredibly frustrated. I don't understand how this comic book was supposed to hit audiences.
The idea of having the inmates takes over Arkham Asylum seems awesome and this could make for the best story, but this art style didn't do it justice. I could barely tell what characters were who, and I'm obsessed with Batman. I also didn't understand the haunted part of the plot.
I get this book was supposed to be a psychological thriller/horror that was supposed to attract adult and mature audiences, but it just didn't feel that way to me. The allusions and references went over my head, and I felt like there could have been so much more added to make it flow better.
Overall, this book was super frustrating for me. I wanted to love it (especially when I paid way to much to get my hands on this book) but I just couldn't. I had high expectations and it came short.
Two out of five stars.
This volume interweaves the story of Amadeus Arkham--Arkham Asylum's founder--with a modern-day story of Batman visiting the asylum. The Joker lures Batman to the Asylum, where he has let all the inmates loose. Batman grapples with his own demons, wondering whether he belongs in the asylum, as well. Meanwhile we learn about the building's dark history.
I found the story a bit difficult to follow, and Joker's dialogue difficult to read because of the font. But this was a good one-off comic to jump into without reading any other Batman comics.
I found the story a bit difficult to follow, and Joker's dialogue difficult to read because of the font. But this was a good one-off comic to jump into without reading any other Batman comics.
3.5/5 stars
Really pretentious and bizarre for the sake of bizarre... but a lot of cool ideas and genuinely scary moments.
Really pretentious and bizarre for the sake of bizarre... but a lot of cool ideas and genuinely scary moments.
Incredibly twisted - don't read it before you sleep.
Joker is shown quite heavily, as is Two-Face, and as the title shows it is all about Arkham Asylum, showing it's interesting start and the dark story behind it, which only makes the place more alluring yet more avoidable.
A must read for the die hard Batman villains fans.
Joker is shown quite heavily, as is Two-Face, and as the title shows it is all about Arkham Asylum, showing it's interesting start and the dark story behind it, which only makes the place more alluring yet more avoidable.
A must read for the die hard Batman villains fans.
Warning this is not your average Batman comic. This is a surrealist symbolic nightmare. The plot is very simple, the inmates of the Arkham Asylum have taken over and Batman must journey through the asylum facing several of his famous foes. At the same time the reader is kind of getting an Arkham Asylum origin story.
The artwork in this book is what really sets it apart. The graphics are edgy to say the least, very creepy and unsettling but interesting and beautiful in a kind of horrific way.
This edition, the 15th anniversary edition, is split into 2 parts, part one is the comic and part two is the script version of the comic with footnotes from the author. The dreamlike art and imagery can be disorienting combined with the amount of symbolism and allusions make this second part a necessity in order to fully appreciate what the author was trying to achieve.
This book really can’t be read from a plot or canon standpoint it has to be taken in as an art expression more than anything else.
This book was interesting, different, fast paced, eerie, creepy, violent, scary, intense, strange, and visually enticing.
adventurous
dark
fast-paced