But other ideas like the Joker calling the outside world the asylum and the world inside Arkham the real world was just corny, and the Amadeus Arkham storyline just read like a poor man’s Psycho. It seemed like an original and viable means of treatment for Two-Face. I liked Morrison’s idea to have the Arkham doctors try weaning Harvey Dent off of the two-sided coin and onto the I Ching. But for page after page of interior art? It’s just headache-inducing! And when he does draw distinguishable figures, they look like poor Simon Bisley facsimiles. McKean’s best known for being The Sandman’s cover artist and his art is well suited to that format. So it’s official: with or without drugs, Morrison writes weird comics! Hear that, poseur artists, you don’t need vice to produce art!ĭave McKean’s artwork matches Morrison’s bizarre story well but it still looks a bit too avant-garde for a comic. Some readers might scoff that Morrison’s comics are always like this with his drug use, but he actually wrote this before he began using drugs and alcohol – he writes in his afterword that he stayed up for hours on end to achieve the altered state of consciousness he wanted before sitting down to write. Batman’s characterisation is a bit off too – how was he beaten by a deranged doctor!? I get the impression the symbolism of the tarot is important but the book didn’t make me interested enough to want to pursue a deeper understanding of it.
It’s designed to be dream-like and to read like a song and therefore, as a comic, it’s difficult to follow or really understand. The story is one long rambling mess, which is part of Morrison’s intent. Meanwhile, the troubled life of the asylum’s founder, Amadeus Arkham, is explored. With Joker running free with a knife, Batman goes into the asylum to stop him and enters a nightmarish netherworld. The inmates have overrun the asylum and are holding civilians hostage. But he wasn’t always so brilliant as his first Batman book, the mega-selling Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, shows. Based solely upon his 2006-2013 run, Grant Morrison might be the greatest Batman writer of all time.
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