Order now and get a FREE e-book copy. The deviant intellectual in you needs it. You are smart, but sometimes it is foolish to be too smart. Dark Knight mythos, Arkham Asylum is also a masterful study of postmodern magical symbolism and the varying degrees of psychosis. The multi-strand narrative begins with the inmates, led by The Joker, taking over the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, holding the staff hostage, and demanding an audience with The Batman.
Time becomes strange.
Unlike typical comic book stories, the villains have individual fixations and realistic flaws. They are transformed, by the story's close, into mythopoeic figures. Psychiatry is like that. Change the structure, don't dwell on the content. Arkham alludes to H.P. Lovecraft , and how non-Euclidean geometry and negative architecture can warp the psyche.