Arkham Asylum Disscussion Thread

Feel free to discuss about Arkham Asylum. I just got it today and thought the art was brillent and the story okay. But my only real compliaint about is the fact that it felt to short. What do think about it, feel free to post your thoughts.

Arkham Asylum...well about the movies...It looked more comic book like in Batman Forever and it looked more realistic in Batman Begins...Maybe it would be cool if Nolan tried to make a combination...I mean give it the look of the comic from the outside, but look it like a real asylum from the inside, like it's an old creepy building that is changed in an asylum to still keep the realism. Cause the asylum from the inside in BF looked more like a dungeon from the inside than an asylum.

Well I loved the Art. And the Story is pretty cool too. I agree it is kind of short. But it is a great Comic anyways.

The art was great... I mean it was like a Tool video turned into a comic book! The story was a bit weak but still entertaining none the less.

Are you kidding? That's one of the greatest stories I've ever read. The psychological profiles and allusions are amazing.

I hear it's really dark and psychological and stuff... but is it worth reading?

Yeah. It's a completely different type of Batman though. He hears something nasty happen to someone over a phone, and drops the phone, screaming "Jesus Christ!"
It's just not very Batman-ish, if you know what I mean. Also, he apologizes for being late at the beginning. You'd never catch Batman apologizing to anyone for being LATE anywhere else.

It's also why I didn't like Killing Joke. When Joker pulls the mask over Batman's eyes, and then grabs the plank to smack him with, Batman says "Don't...." as he tries to adjust his mask, then Joker whacks him with the plank. Batman actually pleaded to Joker to not do something to him! Like a little schoolboy pleads their mate not to tell the teacher when they punched someone!

It just didn't fit his persona. The Hush Batman was the best example of what he should be like. Very dark, brooding, and controlled.

Batman doesn't beg, he doesn't apologise, he does what he must, when he must, how he must and he doesn't give a DAMN about what other people think he should be like...

This is Serious House we're talking about? I thought it was okay. Every once in a while, an author will make a Batman comic about how "Batman's really the crazy one omg aren't I clever" and every one will crowd around and go, "OMG yes, you're so clever!" Then someone who actually understands Batman will gain control of the character and that will sort of fade into the background. I especially "like" how in AA, Batman watches a woman cut someone's throat and then tells her to stop spazzing out about it because, "He deserved it." But if you forget that it's supposed to be a Batman book, it's a pretty good read.

This is the 1 called just Arkham Asylum, Serious House is diffrent

Originally posted by Gregory
Every once in a while, an author will make a Batman comic about how "Batman's really the crazy one omg aren't I clever" and every one will crowd around and go, "OMG yes, you're so clever!" Then someone who actually understands Batman will gain control of the character and that will sort of fade into the background.

That's very true. Obviously, it had to be Moore who brought that out.

People wjho make Bruce a nutter dont get the charcater... he gorunds himself in sanity to avoid insanity

The one I was talking about, a serious house, wasn't about Batman being insane. It had him doubting his sanity and being tested by being put through a night of hell in the craziest place you could ever find yourself. I didn't really see it in continuity anyways, just a cool story in itself.

Cool. I have to check that out some time.

Sounds like Daredevil's "THe Deadliest Night of My LIfe!" but I won't get into that.

LOL, creepy and weird. I wouldn't call that kinda thing continuity because Batman is actually grounded in insanity, he'd never let himself go...

Yeah... Arkham Asylum nearly pushed him to teh brink.

Is it continuity?

I think so.

REALLY!!??

i actually shouted out in the cinema, when it appeared in batman forever!!!

"YEAH!" (with clenched fist too!!!)