He is revealed to have been the one to orchestrate the riots. Cavendish is dressed in a bridal gown and holding a straight razor to Dr. Subsequently he reaches a secret room high in the towers of the asylum - a room left unchanged from the days when the property served as Amadeus Arkham's childhood home.

Clutching the spear, Batman climbs back through the window and impales Croc before casting him out of the window. Batman lands on a roof, where he grabs onto the statue of an angel clasping a bronze spear, which he tears loose. Finally Batman comes face to face with Killer Croc, who grapples with the Dark Knight before throwing him out of a window. As he ventures through Arkham, he also meets Scarecrow, Mad Hatter and Maxie Zeus, all of whom he flees from. Batman incapacitates Destiny by pushing him down a flight of stairs. Batman tears past, breaking Clayface's leg in the process, and flees, encountering a wheelchair-bound Doctor Destiny. On his journey through Arkham, Batman encounters Clayface, who is wasting away from an unspecified skin disease and who tries to infect Batman by touching him. These flashbacks reveal that he was inspired to become a psychiatrist because of his mother's mental illness. The story is interspersed with flashbacks to Arkham founder Amadeus Arkham's life and childhood. Two-Face, meanwhile, has degenerated even further into madness as a result of Adams' therapy (sort of like shermans vandalism) she replaced his trademark coin with a six-sided die, and then with a tarot deck of cards, rendering him incapable of making simple decisions such as going to the bathroom.īatman is forced into a game of hide and seek, and told he has one hour to make his way through the maze-like corridors and find a way out before his old foes are sent to find him. The patients are led by the Joker, who kills a guard to spur Batman to obey his wishes.

Among the hostages is a young woman named Pearl, who works in the kitchens the current Administrator, Dr. They're willing to release the hostages, but only if their one demand is met: Batman must be turned over to them, and become one of their own.Ĭommissioner Gordon informs Batman that the patients of Arkham Asylum have taken over the building, and will murder the staff unless Batman agrees to meet with them. The inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over and seized control of the staff. The subtitle is taken from line 55 of the poem 'Church Going', by Philip Larkin. It was originally published in the United States in both hardcover and softcover editions by DC Comics in 1989. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth is a Batman graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Dave McKean.

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