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A review by bryce_is_a_librarian
Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison
4.0
I'm not what you would call a huge Grant Morrison fan. It's said you either like Alan Moore or Morrison and anyone glancing over my review history can probably guess which I favor.
He's just a bit pants, isn't he? So thunderously self serious, so strenuously post modern, and even IF his stories do work in the moment it's very seldom that I read one without fifteen minutes later going "Well that was a bit silly wasn't it?" And don't even get me started on the whole super sanity thing, I still have no idea what he's going for with that. Shifting personalities is all fine and dandy but c'mon.
Still a blind squirrel does occasionally find a nut (See Also WE3). So even though this book suffers from self seriousness (you need hip waders to walk through the bullshit on some of the sequences) and silliness (I don't care if has shamanistic significance the finale is pretty damn hilarious).
Much of it has to do with Dave McKean's art which brilliant breaks down each character to it's bare essence, while creating a bizarre tableau which makes reading the book a bit more like looking a mural unfold for a hundred something pages rather then reading the average comic book.
He's just a bit pants, isn't he? So thunderously self serious, so strenuously post modern, and even IF his stories do work in the moment it's very seldom that I read one without fifteen minutes later going "Well that was a bit silly wasn't it?" And don't even get me started on the whole super sanity thing, I still have no idea what he's going for with that. Shifting personalities is all fine and dandy but c'mon.
Still a blind squirrel does occasionally find a nut (See Also WE3). So even though this book suffers from self seriousness (you need hip waders to walk through the bullshit on some of the sequences) and silliness (I don't care if has shamanistic significance the finale is pretty damn hilarious).
Much of it has to do with Dave McKean's art which brilliant breaks down each character to it's bare essence, while creating a bizarre tableau which makes reading the book a bit more like looking a mural unfold for a hundred something pages rather then reading the average comic book.