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A review by ericbuscemi
Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison
1.0
What a fucking mess. The painted artwork was appalling, the story-line was incoherent, the dialogue was barely legible, and, most importantly, the portrayal of Batman was all wrong. This felt like a second-rate haunted-house horror that Batman was wedged into, and poorly at that. Batman's encounters with various villains felt thrown-in, in a cheap name-dropping way, his decision-making was baffling to non-existent, and the story's resolution -- hanging on a coin-flip -- was absurd.
The back-story to Gotham's Arkham Asylum was done much better in the Batman: Arkham Asylum video-game. If I'd read this first, I may never have played that game due to fear it was this bad.
I only did decide to read this after seeing it on multiple best graphic-novel lists. How can so many lists be so wrong? And how is the Goodreads rating so high? What am I missing?
The back-story to Gotham's Arkham Asylum was done much better in the Batman: Arkham Asylum video-game. If I'd read this first, I may never have played that game due to fear it was this bad.
I only did decide to read this after seeing it on multiple best graphic-novel lists. How can so many lists be so wrong? And how is the Goodreads rating so high? What am I missing?