arkham asylum

If anyone wants to take a trip into the minds of psychopathic comic criminals. Go for batman comic series. It is seriously sophisticated comic. I just finished Arkham ASylum, the graphics are (gasp) amazing. If anyone has played silent hill (the video game), the graphics are similar. Distrubing, but very very cool. Haha I'm not a crazy comic fan, but this one is so cool. And the writer did a pretty good job of allowing us a glimpse of these criminals' minds. (dark, distorted, but also startlingly clear) These so-call crazy characters are presented as having a sick but beautiful mind. I'm so impressed! Batman comics tend to have a lean towards dealing with psychology. Yeah yeah, I know what you think, Freudian theory gone cheap, but it's really enjoyable. Hey, even Freud thought some of his patients delusions were beautiful. Why can't comics bring this across?

"The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see?"
-Harvey Dent (2-face)-he makes decisions by flipping a dollar which is scarred on one side, if it lands scarred side up, he kills.

"It is quite possible that we may be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception. More suited to the urban life at the end of the 20th cenutry...He can only cope with the chaotic barrage of input by going with the flow. He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule, and the world as a theatre of the absurd."
-lady psychiatrist on JOker