72 mins. In honour of next week’s highly anticipated release of the Batman: Arkham City videogame, we discuss the best Arkham Asylum comics, the dark history of Gotham City and a few of its cruel and unusual inhabitants. Also, predictable superhero posing, Woody Allen as Batman and the ice-cold woman known as Frostbite McDonough.
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15:55 THEME – ARKHAM ASYLUM
Grant Morrison & Dave McKean’s “Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth”
Alan Grant & Norm Breyfogle’s “The Last Arkham”
Batman: The Animated Series: “Lockup”, “Trial”
Dan Slott & Ryan Sook’s “Arkham Asylum: Living Hell”
David Hine & Jeremy Haun’s “Arkham Reborn”
The characters that turn evil after visiting Arkham (and not as inmates) including Lock Up and Joker’s girlfriend Harley Quinn.
The little known ‘90s one-shots “Batman: Ghosts” and “Batman Chronicles: The Gauntlet”, and Arkham as seen in Batman: The Animated Series.