A review by jobinsonlis
Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison

3.0

It's hard for me to know how to rate this because it's a great comic book but I didn't like it. Grant Morrison writes amazing comic books and this one is twisty and disturbing, which I like, and it inspired one the best video games of all time, which I love. However I think it's a shitty Batman comic book. If this was just about Arkham the man I would have liked it more but Morrison kept going back to Batman wandering around aimlessly in the Asylum, not really doing a fucking thing except poking his head into rooms to see what everybody was doing. Answer? Not much. The Mad Hatter was apparently getting high as shit and thinking about his love of little girls, the Scarecrow was just sort of meandering, and the Joker was probably thinking of what cutesy nickname he could call Batman the next time he saw him. I'm assuming Poison Ivy was taking a nap somewhere. Morrison was relying very heavily on mood and atmosphere, which McKean's art highlighted perfectly, but it didn't hold up for me. Also I don't love a version of Batman that tells a devastated woman who's just killed a man that the guy got what he deserved. She knew that guy, Bruce, don't be a dick.