![]() ![]() Morrison admitted that he preferred Brian Bolland to have been the novel's artist, complementing that McKean's art doesn't have "the most terrifying expressions of the real." Morrison liked Bolland's art in The Killing Joke, and initially wanted him to have drawn the comic, while criticizing McKean's choice of making the novel more abstract, adding that it would have been better if it was more concrete. Morrison also added that they tried to stay away from the original hardboiled pulp influence of the Batman and those seen in American cinema adaptations, but instead use more themes and style from European cinema. Morrison liked what Miller did with the Batman, creating a whole new different character who was a more driven and obsessed vigilante, and Morrison wanted to make his own "different" take on the Batman comics. The house and the head are one.ĭuring an interview with Alex Carr, Morrison stated that Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns was a huge influence during his development of the story. The journey through the book is like moving through the floors of the house itself. We were also referencing sacred geometry, and the plan of the Arkham House was based on the Glastonbury Abbey and Chartres Cathedral. There are upper stories of unfolding symbol and metaphor. ![]() Secret passages connect ideas and segments of the book. The construction of the story was influenced by the architecture of a house - the past and the tale of Amadeus Arkham forms the basement levels. I wanted to approach Batman from the point of view of the dreamlike, emotional and irrational hemisphere, as a response to the very literal, 'realistic', 'left brain' treatment of superheroes which was in vogue at the time, in the wake of The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, and others.Īn additional reference to the work as a "response" to trends of the time is made in a later note: "The repressed, armored, uncertain and sexually frozen man in Arkham Asylum was intended as a critique of the '80s interpretation of Batman as violent, driven, and borderline psychopathic." Morrison goes on to explain that his symbolic conception of the character is for this book alone, and that his other work involving Batman has cast him in a far different light. The intention was to create something that was more like a piece of music or an experimental film than a typical adventure comic book. 's themes were inspired by Lewis Carroll, quantum physics, Jung, and Crowley its visual style by surrealism, Eastern European creepiness, Cocteau, Artaud, Švankmajer, the Brothers Quay, etc. had written a few short and evocative paragraphs on the history of Arkham Asylum and it was here I learned of poor Amadeus Arkham, the hospital's founder . In his original script printed in both the 15th Anniversary (2005) and 25th Anniversary (2014) editions, Morrison remarks on several details behind the genesis of the work: Line 55 of Philip Larkin's poem "Church Going" was used as a subtitle. ![]() Morrison would later note in the annotated script of how the graphic novel was to be the start of his own undertaking of the Batman comics. The graphic novel was writer Grant Morrison's first work on Batman, making it the earliest installment in the Morrison's Batman saga. The critically acclaimed, similarly-titled video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, the first game in the Batman: Arkham series, was partially influenced by the graphic novel. The graphic novel would later become the definitive story of Arkham Asylum, a critical part of the Batman mythos. Upon its release, the graphic novel garnered commercial and critical acclaim, and is considered by many to be one of the greatest Batman stories of all time, and one of the best works of Grant Morrison's career. As Batman ventures deeper, he discovers the origin of how the asylum was established, the history of its builder Amadeus Arkham, and the supernatural and psychological mystery that has been haunting the area. Inside, Batman confronts many of his enduring rogues gallery, such as the Joker, Two-Face, and Killer Croc, many of whom have changed since he last saw them. The story follows the vigilante Batman, who is called upon to quell a maddening riot taking place in the infamous Arkham Asylum, a psychiatric hospital housing the most dangerous supervillains in Gotham City. Inspired by previous works like The Dark Knight Returns, Morrison conceived the story to be his own different approach to the character, using heavy symbolical references and the deconstruction of many iconic Batman villains. The graphic novel was the first Batman story to be written by Morrison before becoming a regular writer in future Batman titles. ![]()
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