| Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition) |  | Author: Grant Morrison
Creator: Dave McKean
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
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Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 7,474
Media: Paperback
Edition: 15
Pages: 216
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1401204252
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401204259
ASIN: 1401204252
Publication Date: November 1, 2005
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Product Description
In this groundbreaking, painted graphic novel, the inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gothams detention center for the criminally insane on April Fools Day, demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages.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.During his run through this absurd gauntlet, the Dark Knights own sanity is placed in jeopardy.This special anniversary edition trade paperback also reproduces the original script with annotations by Morrison and editor Karen Berger.
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 Difficult to read, but a worthy addition to your collection. August 30, 2010
TravMac
It's definitely one of the hardest books I've ever had to read. But more than likely intentionally, it manages to put you into the maddening frame of mind Batman must've been going through while at Arkham.
I liked it, didn't love it though. I'll keep it and try to read it again another day to see if I missed anything worth putting it on my top ten list.
Interesting July 29, 2010
S.P.
My favorite part of this whole graphic novel would have to be the art. The art is definitely unlike anything I've seen in comics before, and I've only seen the style here and there in artistic media. The Arkham backstory was interesting, but did get a little confusing at times when Arkham's dialogue was on panels of Batman running through Arkham. Although I really enjoyed the art it does lend itself to having to focus on the panels for a bit longer to fully absorb the action being depicted. The story is fairly simplistic and you can either take it at face value or dig deeper into it. Overall this graphic novel is an interesting Batman novel, but from what I can tell it's not a full on Batman story as it delves deeper into the mythos of Arkham Asylum and its insane inmates. Still an interesting read none the less. I recommend this as a buy, or if you have a friend that has it barrow theirs.
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Ann M. Stanley
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Too short, didn't like the art April 15, 2010
Michael Talarski (Glastonbury, CT)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I sadly don't have much to add besides the fact that I wanted more of the story and that the art hurt me. It wasn't bad I just didn't like the style at all.
You do end up buying a lot of bonus scripts and concept pages so yeah.
 hard to grasp due to outlandish artwork February 28, 2010
Damon J. Ballweg
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
While the story holds in this book, the artwork made it hard to follow as well as to understand. It all makes sense when you read the script notes in the back of the book, but while actually reading with the art it becomes confusing and annoying. While the artwork is at times interesting, it does not match the story in the traditional sense. Random characters are thrown into panels where you can't understand what they're doing or as to why the are even there. I bought "The Killing Joke" as well as one simply entitled "Joker", they were both much better reads.
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