Grant Morrison's and Dave McKean's masterpiece. Everyone likes readBatman. But Arkham Asylum is visually quite different. The comic book goes through two time periods. The province begins with Amadeus Arkham's childhood and traumas and continues with he's being a psychiatrist. Amadeus's family house turn a mental patient. At this point it isn't hard to make a vision of a haunted house style story. This mental hospital is Arkham Tımarhanesi where there are many villains, especially Joker, nowadays. Batman moves through Arkham, we see his trauma and his problematic personality. Every enemy that he is against will not hesitate to remind him that he is in fact a madman.
Grant Morrison's story and dialogue were very good. It was especially noticed that he used the book Alice in Wonderland and the theories of Carl Jung. The interpretations of the Joker and Two-Face by doctors working both in Arkham and held hostage were like those people who thought Mad Hatter, Maxie Zeus, Joker or the interpretations they made for Batman. I was very pleased with the view that Arkham and the person who fed the madness were Batman. I have come across this before.
While reading the comic book, Carl Jung's idea of "Collective Consciousness" came to mind. For there may not be pure evil or madness in the middle. Joker and other bad actions of one may not be realized in direct control of their conscious action. Collective Consciousness and community can have common thought / desire. Because, according to the theory of Collective Consciousness, in fact, all people are like lower branches of a common consciousness. We are all connected to each other. The individuality of the actions we have made for this reason is doubtful. In other words, when the majority wants Batman to exist, the mechanism works in this direction and the community creates Batman without being aware of it. Could it be that the only way to get rid of this kind of direction is to go crazy?
And I think Joker was very well done in comic book .
Some people think that God is a bug.
I believe that God lives in people.
These words do not sound like a delicacy of a crazy man. But they are Joker's words. But more like the approaches that a free mind produces. I say free mind because madness is the second step towards freedom, and the first is laughing. This is why deli often laughs for no reason, so Joker always laughs. So my approach to freedom-madness-laughter threesome has always been in this direction. This is why Joker has always been interesting to me. Because it is as free as any of us can not.
We don't have classical comic book panels or pages. Dave McKean's photographs and unusual drawing techniques have revealed an artwork. Each panel is like an artwork. But we have tables that are not bright and spacious, but dark, dreary and frightening brushes. Dave McKean's strange and frightening drawings, which are highly compatible with the psychological contact of the story, have produced an excellent "psychological graphic novel". In addition, each character is re-interpreted and re-drawn according to this concept. As a result, Batman: Arkham Asylum was one of my favorite Batman comics.
Trivia
- Batman: Arkham Tımarhanesi Grant Morrison's first work on Batman.
- The fact that Joker is constantly writing a new character for himself has been very influential in later stories.
- Amadeus Arkham appears for the first time in this work.
- Arkham, H.P. Lovecraft's stories are an imaginary town in Massachusetts.
