Time to dig into the mythos of Batman further, with some quality written and drawn comic also known as Batman: Arkham Asylum.
After getting informed that the inmates of the facility have taken over, he encounters many of his rogues during a twisted game of hide and seek enacted by The Joker. These include Scarecrow, Killer Croc, Clayface, Mad Hatter, Maxie Zeus and more.
At the same time, flashbacks reveal the madness trip that Amadeus Arkham undertakes, after his mentally ill mother suffered from delusions depicting a bat creature, and afterwards, his wife and daughter are raped and murdered, snapping his mind and going on a deluded mission about the entity, while eventually killing the guilty inmate and then getting incarcerated in his own asylum until death.
The psychological horror is everywhere, as not only his rogues and the personnel's insanity is tested, but Batman's psyche is too, when it is revealed who orchestrated the release and riots of the inmates, when Joker's mentality and sexuality are twisted, and when even Two-Face refuses to count on his dualism.
Depicting an ethereal and cerebral interpretation of Batman, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth's art style is dark, realistic, nightmarish, creepy and full of symbolism, and it is among the highest rated and well known stories about Batman comics out there.
It also loosely inspired the video game Batman: Arkham Asylum.
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