#BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM COMIC SERIES#

His three greatest enemies, the Joker, Two-Face and Penguin, are already busily carving up the greater share of Arkham's turf for themselves. Prisoners housed inside will not be kept in cells but allowed to degenerate into warring factions reveling in anarchy these lawbreakers will be segregated from the rest of Gotham by heavily fortified defences diligently monitored by a private military company under Sharp's direction: Tyger Security.īatman, realizing that the mayor's dreadful 'solution' to the rising crime rate will light the fuse to a powder keg, infiltrates Arkham City to observe the atmosphere inside. The result is Sharp's most ambitious and controversial project yet: to wall off half of the city as an open-air detention area reserved only for society's criminal elements. Arrangements are then made for their respective inmates to be moved to a new location. The concept of 'Arkham City' is then unveiled shortly afterwards: Arkham Asylum and the local penitentiary are closed – permanently. Around this same time, the Caped Crusader also comes to the conclusion that someone has been manipulating Quincy behind the scenes he is merely a puppet in a much larger game. This gives Mayor Sharp the pretext he needs to declare martial law and give himself almost unlimited legal powers under an imposed state of emergency.īatman, wary of Sharp's secret new plans for Gotham, proceeds to investigate his records, discovering that the mayor is obsessed with him and that he is bordering on being declared a public enemy. In their ensuing murder spree, three hundred Gotham civilians are killed. His attempts to make elaborate public gestures and construct a new city hall are subsequently targeted by a terrorist duo named 'T&T', superpowered thugs who were addicted to the Titan formula.

Meanwhile, Arkham Asylum administrator Quincy Sharp takes the credit for bringing his charges back under control that night, using this false pretense to successfully become the elected mayor of Gotham City. A mutated, beastly, Joker attempted to destroy Batman during the chaos, but after his eventual defeat was left sickly and weakened. The Dark Knight was able to bring it under control, but not before Arkham was left in ruins following a final showdown with his nemesis, who had injected himself and numerous other test subjects with Titan, a Venom super-steroid derivative which had the ability to turn men into maddened monsters.

#BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM COMIC SERIES#

The Arkham City comic book tie-in series is set six months before the events of Batman: Arkham City: A riot orchestrated by the villainous Joker had occurred at the asylum, which served as a mental institute for the criminally insane housing Batman's worst enemies.

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