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I love comic books, and I’ve grown quite fond of Trade Paperbacks. They give you a full story that might span several comic book issues without you having to pick them up monthly. Batman is one of my favorite heroes. Arkham Asylum is where Batman's Rogues Gallery are incarcerated, and so I had high expectations. High concept. Thoughtful narrative, but a little pretentious. The painted artwork I guess is designed to be nightmarish ala Bill Sienkiewicz' Moon Knight to highlight how the inmates visually observe their surroundings through the subjective prism deemed insanity. However, the sequential art makes the narrative difficult to follow, and I was unimpressed and unconvinced. This story was not great, but it wasn't horrible. You could avoid this one. To my mind, Grant Morrison has never been the type of writer that makes a reader stop to take notice, and this graphic novel does nothing to alter that perception.