Arkham Asylum is one of my top 3, not only because of the fantastic art, but because Grant Morrison showed us all what the infamous Bat-Foes are really like when they're not trying to pull off some nefarious criminal scheme. Drooling, pants-pissing, moaning, wailing, looney-tooney psychotics. Just like the victims of their crimes, the Bat-Foes are victims of their own sicknesses. It's kind of an ironic story, if you ask me.
Originally posted by Etrigan
It's spooky. The way Batman changes is really weird.I mean, you want to see the Dark Knight shove a piece of glass into his hand just because Mad Hatter persuaded him to?
Thats the point of the story: to show us that Batman is just as crazy as the inmates inside the walls of Arkham. The only difference is that Batman is not a murdering sociopath bent on elaborate criminal schemes. The psychosis of the Dark Knight is obsession with bats, and the unrelenting hunger for revenge. A hero he may be, still........Batman is not as sane as you think he is. He even said himself to Gordon: "Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that the Joker might be right about me. Sometimes I.....question the rationality of my actions. And I'm afraid that when I walk throught those asylum gates....when I walk into Arkham and those doors close behind me.....it'll be just like coming home."