Batman: Arkham Asylum - Grant Morrison

Probably the most bizarre of all the Batman graphic novels, Arkham Asylum is a brutal in-your-face acid trip of a Comic Book that has split fans over the generations into two camps; thopse who love this and those who are seriously disturbed by this or do not understand it and thus have come to hate it! I sit firmly in the first camp. Yes, it is different; yes, it is often hard to read and yes, it is not the most original of storylines...but the way it is executed makes this stand out head and shoulders over anything else Batman related! Commissioner Gordan calls Batman with an urgent message; unless The Dark Knight comes to the Aslyum then the inmates will kill all the ...

Batman: Arkham Asylum - Grant Morrison

Where Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons "Watchmen" was a true triumph of substance and depth over style, "Arkham Asylum: A Serious Place on A Serious Earth" is the other way around, style over substance. It isn't all too dissappointing though, inside there are two stories, told at the same time and referencing each other. The main one is obviously Batman. It's April First and the Joker has managed to take over Arkham and turn it over to the criminals, taking several hostages. His demands are simple, Batman comes in for a game and the hostages go free. The game is hide and seek, with Batman hiding, and all his locked up foes seeking. While the plot appears simple but ...

New X-Men - Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison is widely regarded as one of the great comics writers of the day but his overhaul of the X-Men at the turn of the century has garnered as much loathing as it has praise. People like their X-Men and apparently, they don't like it when it gets meddled with too much. Well, Morrison meddled and he meddled good, but its really hard to see, when there are so many dire, plain and insipid X-books on the comic stands, just why you'd complain about Morrison giving the X-Men new uniforms, secondary mutations or revealing their identities to the public, particularly when he also managed to bring the franchise completely out of the doldrums and make it sharp, witty and ...