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A review by diogsis
Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison
5.0
TL;DR = 100% recommend, my favorite batman comic, mostly because of its art's uniqueness, it's chilling and moody atmosphere, and how thought provoking and mature the story is.
Let me set the scene: 10pm, dim the lights, silent hill 2 soundtrack, and binging this comic till 2am.
Truly an amazing and terrifying experience.
I don’t plan to spoil the story (which is actually pretty straightforward and not that complicated), but the little details and the analysis that is made of every character is the best part of this, even though it leaves much to the interpretation of the reader in this regard.
Probably the most surreal and dream-like comic I've read, but that just adds this (intended, I assume) eerie feeling of not knowing what is a delusion/hallucination and what is actually happening, and the gorgeous and unique art style only adds even more layers to this atmosphere.
I've never seen a more disturbing version of the joker, even Heath Ledger's interpretation of the character in 2008 wasn't as disturbing as this, and I think most of it is carried by the art style, most of the villains are truly horrifying, and other batman media don’t really give that same vibe as this comic does.
Let me set the scene: 10pm, dim the lights, silent hill 2 soundtrack, and binging this comic till 2am.
Truly an amazing and terrifying experience.
I don’t plan to spoil the story (which is actually pretty straightforward and not that complicated), but the little details and the analysis that is made of every character is the best part of this, even though it leaves much to the interpretation of the reader in this regard.
Probably the most surreal and dream-like comic I've read, but that just adds this (intended, I assume) eerie feeling of not knowing what is a delusion/hallucination and what is actually happening, and the gorgeous and unique art style only adds even more layers to this atmosphere.
I've never seen a more disturbing version of the joker, even Heath Ledger's interpretation of the character in 2008 wasn't as disturbing as this, and I think most of it is carried by the art style, most of the villains are truly horrifying, and other batman media don’t really give that same vibe as this comic does.