6/30/2023 0 Comments Arkham asylum new edition![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Now, where was I? Where am I? Where will I be? You must be feeling quite fragile by now, I expect. And all the other regular inmates are on hand to scare what passes for the daylight out of Batman including the Scarecrow, Two-Face and, here, the Hatter: McKean was still in his BLACK ORCHID post-Sienkiewicz stage, using both pencil and paint but little photography, and his exploded, expressionist artwork brings the Joker to cackling life, Day-Glo green hair flowing like sea-grass, his speeches slashed freely across the page in bright red ink, unconstrained by speech bubbles. ![]() I loved this dark, sexually charged Bat tale in which The Joker taunts Batman into Arkham Asylum (where both of them belong) through sadism and psychology, then pinches his bottom. But now: all the different covers over the years including the Japanese hardcover, an illustration for The Face, another for UKCAC '88, the clay mask used as the base for McKean's photo-painterly jiggery-pokery and convention painted "sketches" in a completely different style. Still here: Morrison's complete script and original notes, annotated by both himself and Karen Berger, many of Morrison's original thumb-nail breakdowns (like Bendis and Moore, he's not a bad artist, either), and lots of other behind-the-scenes tomfoolery. The new, new POST-25th Anniversary edition comes packed with even more extras than last time. ![]()
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