Talk:Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:37, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Infobox needed
This article could use an infobox. And some basic information, like when it was published. RobertM525 (talk) 20:29, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Mad Hatter
The section on the Mad Hatter states that subsequent writers have adopted in some fashion the pedophilia of the character from this story. However, the article on the Mad Hatter claims the opposite. Which is true, and can we get some citations? 75.175.5.142 (talk) 07:34, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Plot
The whole plot section needs a rewrite from the ground up. And also a mention of how Batman -also- fared in the fight against Croc, I think that part is very noteable. Lots42 (talk) 05:23, 23 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Didn't that spear wind up driven all the way through Batman's torso? That was one of the moments that yanked me out of the story, because that's likely a fatal wound, and nothing was done about it. I don't re-read the book often, so I'm asking instead of checking.
 * --Ben Culture (talk) 12:22, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Media Adaptations - Film
You only have The Dark Knight listed. It was referenced a lot more in Batman Begins, the Scarecrow RAN Arkham Asylum and had people declared mentally unfit to stand trial and committed to Arkham Asylum. There are scenes inside Arkham Asylum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.214.250.194 (talk) 12:42, 28 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I kinda think the whole "In Other Media" section, as it is, could be axed entirely. None of the connections seem all that notable to me.
 * --Ben Culture (talk) 12:19, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Possible OR for the phrase "the Mother's Son"
Article quotes writer Grant Morrison -

the story is woven tightly around a small number of symbolic elements, which combine and recombine throughout, as if in a dream: the Moon, the Shadow, the Mirror, the Tower, and the Mother's Son.

Most of these symbols are  linked to the corresponding card of Tarot,  but "the Mother's Son" is  linked  to Psycho (film). Is this original research (WP:OR)? Do we have a reliable third-party source (WP:SOURCE) for this reference?

-- 186.221.161.29 (talk) 23:49, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Batman's self-harm
I think it would help convey the nature of this story if Batman's moment of self-harm is noted. Without finding and re-reading my copy of the book, I do remember him taking a shard of glass and driving it all the way through his hand. It wasn't subtle. I think it was a pretty significant part of the book's re-characterization of Batman (something a traditional Batman would never, EVER do), and illustrated how far he had been driven to "the breaking point", which the article currently only alludes to briefly.

I've just done a number of minor clean-up edits, but I don't feel up to adding content without any consensus. I'll leave it to others, but I would add that it doesn't necessarily need to be a separate, tacked-on paragraph, an "item". It should fit into the plot description naturally enough. Or not, I'm not sure.

This is quite a good article, about a book I don't consider to be all that great.

--Ben Culture (talk) 12:02, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

"Arkham Asylum: An Expensive Shrink-Wrapped First-Edition Hardback Graphic Novel"
I wasn't THE biggest comics geek in 1988 or '89, but I remember being aware of this graphic novel before its release. I'd seen a sample of the artwork (The Joker's big face reveal), and I was dying to have it. After its release, I remember haunting comics shops, wishing there was an unwrapped copy I could peruse, or that I could get away with unwrapping one there in the bookstore (as I frequently do now), or that I had the nerve to just shell out $25 for a copy, unseen (which I eventually did). But they were selling that first-edition hardback strictly shrink-wrapped, back then. It's not-uncommon practice now, but I don't remembering it happening before.

Was this the first superhero graphic novel to be sold shrink-wrapped? I imagine it probably wasn't the first hardback. But am I on to something notable for the article, here?

--Ben Culture (talk) 12:16, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

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