ARKHAM ASYLUM ...frightened boy in a haunted house

Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 6 p.m.

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In our second episode of SUBVERSIVE SUPERHEROES, we'll try to unpack the enigma of ARKHAM ASYLUM. Grant Morrison's and Dave McKean's disorienting ride takes its cues from haunted house narratives, classic horror stories of escaped prisoners visting their former keepers, and Alice in Wonderland, to deliver a Batman tale the likes of which you've never read before.

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Arkham Asylum is highly influential as well - and its presence can be felt in the Arkham Asylum video game series, the Batman: The Animated Series cartoon, and in Christopher Nolan's definitive Dark Knight trilogy.

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