#Batman arkham asylum a serious house on serious earth movie#
I got it right after the '89 movie came out, of course, and was absolutely terrified of it - it sat on my nightstand and gave me nightmares regularly, until I put it away for years before revisiting it again in my late teens.īut I'd never bothered to wonder what anyone else thought of it. I got it right after the '89 movie came out, of course, and was absolutely terrified of it - it sat on my nightstand and gave me nightmares regularly, until So after buying this book for the third time in my life today (the first, a hardcover edition that all the pages eventually fell out of the second, the paperback edition sans script that now sits across the country with the rest of my books) I decided it was worth going on Goodreads to wax poetic about it. So after buying this book for the third time in my life today (the first, a hardcover edition that all the pages eventually fell out of the second, the paperback edition sans script that now sits across the country with the rest of my books) I decided it was worth going on Goodreads to wax poetic about it. You can put him between the dinosaur and the big penny.ĭid I mention that the asylum is haunted because the Arkham’s were a bunch of loons or the Arkham’s were a bunch of loons because the original house was haunted?īottom line: The art is purty, but then so was Where’s Waldo? And with Where’s Waldo you didn’t have to work as hard to find the player(s). Idea: Bats, shove him into a kiln and present him to Alfred as a big ashtray or something.
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Stop spouting drivel and take a tranquilizer! Therapy seems to work wonders for a few of the rogues – yes, Two-Face flip a coin pick a card to see if you can scratch your ass. The script actually came in handy, because I could actually read what The Joker was trying to say, but shuffling back and forth between the comic and an addendum quickly wore thin.Ī plot summary: The inmates at Arkham take control of the asylum because it’s Tuesday and demand that Batman pay them a visit, because they love him so so much and want to cuddle and spoon and eat Toll House cookie dough real fast, which is a good thing because this isn’t take-control-of-the-situation-with-a-few-well-placed-bat-flash-gernades-and-a-couple-of-kidney-punches-and-or-batarang-or-two-to-the-dome Batman, this is Emo-boy-Mr.-Feels-Kyle-Raynor-is-my-psychic-twin Batman, so let’s brood, shall we? Morrison wants to share each and every pop culture allusion and Easter egg that he’s cleverly included for us. The script includes footnotes because Mr. This is the 25th anniversary edition of the publishing of this pretentious pile of crap, so we get Morrison’s script tacked onto the actual comic. Yes, Goodreader, this is why I love you, because nothing ever gets by you. Grant Morrison gets “serious” – it’s even mentioned in the title twice in case you need a reminder – and if Carrot Top wants to star in a remake of Death of a Salesman or Billy Joel wants to write a concerto for flugelhorn and triangle, I don’t want to hear about it. Or Holy Histrionics, Batman, I’d rather have listened to an opera… Wait, Jeff, did you say footnotes? Yes, Goodreader, this is why I love you, because nothing ever gets by you. or Holy Histrionics, Batman, I’d rather have listened to an opera… Grant Morrison gets “serious” – it’s even mentioned in the title twice in case you need a reminder – and if Carrot Top wants to star in a remake of Death of a Salesman or Billy Joel wants to write a concerto for flugelhorn and triangle, I don’t want to hear about it. The Caped Crusader with footnotes!?! or Art for Art’s Sake.
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This special anniversary edition trade paperback also reproduces the original script with annotations by Morrison and editor Karen Berger.more During his run through this absurd gauntlet, the Dark Knight's own sanity is placed in jeopardy.
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Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to live and endure the personal hells of the Joker, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face, and many other sworn enemies in order to save the innocents and retake the prison. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to live and endure the personal hells of the Joker, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face, and many other sworn en In this groundbreaking, painted graphic novel, the inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham's detention center for the criminally insane on April Fools' Day, demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages. In this groundbreaking, painted graphic novel, the inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham's detention center for the criminally insane on April Fools' Day, demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages.