Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
November 21, 2006

Grant Morrison takes us on a surreal ride in this 1989 Batman classic. Arkham Asylum,
a gothic-like horror book, has a different take of Batman; instead of
showing us a stoic and zen-like superhero, we see an insecure and
sexually repressed man dressed in a bat suit going inside the Asylum to
face his biggest enemy: the inability to face up to his parents’ deaths.
Probably the most disturbing (in art and theme) graphic novel I have ever bought.
Awesome.
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