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{TEXTBOOK} Arkham Manor: Volume 1 ARKHAM MANOR: VOLUME 1 PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Shawn Crystal,Dave McCraig,Gerry Duggan | 144 pages | 04 Aug 2015 | DC Comics | 9781401254582 | English | United States Arkham Manor Vol 1 1 | DC Database | Fandom One of the guards admits that he recognizes him as one of the labourers who helped prepare Wayne Manor for its re-purposing as an asylum. Apparently, he'd finished his work, and never left. Arkham thanks Batman for his work, admitting that there are still four inmates escaped - including Jack Shaw, Batman's under-cover alias. Sybil Silverlock is missing, Victor Fries is hiding somewhere on the grounds, and Seth Wickham never made it to the hospital, after being sent there following the attempted murder on him. Batman determines that Wickham is the priority for now, and worries that the troubled young man will have gone home. By the time he arrives there, the smell from behind the door tells him that he's already too late to protect the boy's family. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Now they know that I'll risk my life for them too. Men like this will never be tolerated. Contents [ show ]. Categories :. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Collected in Arkham Manor. Tweet Clean. Cancel Update. What size image should we insert? This will not affect the original upload Small Medium How do you want the image positioned around text? Float Left Float Right. Cancel Insert. Go to Link Unlink Change. Arkham Manor (Volume 1) - Batman Wiki Arkham admits that there is little information about this patient. One of the guards admits that he recognizes him as one of the labourers who helped prepare Wayne Manor for its re-purposing as an asylum. Apparently, he'd finished his work, and never left. Arkham thanks Batman for his work, admitting that there are still four inmates escaped - including Jack Shaw, Batman's under-cover alias. Sybil Silverlock is missing, Victor Fries is hiding somewhere on the grounds, and Seth Wickham never made it to the hospital, after being sent there following the attempted murder on him. Batman determines that Wickham is the priority for now, and worries that the troubled young man will have gone home. By the time he arrives there, the smell from behind the door tells him that he's already too late to protect the boy's family. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Now they know that I'll risk my life for them too. Men like this will never be tolerated. Contents [ show ]. This will not affect the original upload Small Medium How do you want the image positioned around text? Float Left Float Right. Cancel Insert. Go to Link Unlink Change. Cancel Create Link. Disable this feature for this session. Rows: Columns:. Enter the URL for the tweet you want to embed. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live. ARKHAM MANOR #1 | DC Cancel Update. What size image should we insert? This will not affect the original upload Small Medium How do you want the image positioned around text? Float Left Float Right. Cancel Insert. Go to Link Unlink Change. Cancel Create Link. But apparently I never did. Oh Well, then it's try to remember what I read game. That's always a funny game. Let's see, in this volume we get to see how they turn Wayne Mansion into the new Arkham Asylum. I found that quite interesting, Batman's home is now the home for all the insane criminals. Many that himself has cached. The problem is now that someone is killing the inmates. And you know someone killing killers is really, real I actually thought that I had written a review for this volume. And you know someone killing killers is really, really bad so now Batman must save the inmates lives by posing as an inmate. The art was good; the story was entertaining to read. A decent Batman volume, not the best I read, but certainly not the worst either. I can't really remember anything really special about this one. It's for the moment good kind of read without leaving any big impression behind. I received this copy from the DC Comics through Edelweiss in return for an honest review! Thank you! Jul 28, Sam Quixote rated it did not like it. When Arkham Asylum is destroyed see Batman Eternal Vol 2 , where does the city of Gotham end up housing its dangerously disturbed inmates? Wayne Manor of course! It wasn't worth it. However, once the inmates have been transferred over to the newly branded Arkham Manor, someone begins killing them off. Who killed… Some Guy? Who killed… Another Guy? Who cares? Gerry Duggan I thought he was Marvel exclusive? Was adopting a new identity and going undercover the best approach to catching the killer? So why does it take him 6 issues? Really poor stuff. None of the designs — of Jack Shaw, Arkham Manor, or the villain — were particularly memorable and the first time we see his Batman is pretty awful think Lurch from the Addams Family cosplaying as the Dark Knight! A little unusual levity was welcome in this otherwise pedestrian whodunit. View all 8 comments. This was Don't even get me started on the logistics of turning Wayne Manor into Arkham. Don't worry, Bruce poured cement down the stairs leading to the batcave. Artwork was weird but not awful. The thing is, this one is kind of necessary to read since it follows up after what happened in Batman: Eternal, Volume 2. Also, Joker shows up and afaik it's his first actual appearance after Death of the Family. I could be completely wrong but I'm too lazy to check. This reminds This was This reminds me of how important Batman Incorporated was even though it wasn't a "main" title. And this is also why I try to read everything in order so I don't miss something. Sep 14, Steve rated it it was ok Shelves: read-in , sequential-art , early-review-edelweiss. This has got to be the most idiotic premise for a story, and that makes it hard to swallow the rest of the book, but it seemingly only gets worse. Bruce Wayne puts on some fake hair and makeup and goes undercover to solve some murders in the old family home. Ignoring the senseless premise, what follows is fairly engaging. Undercover Batman teams up with Arkham crazies against some other Arkham crazies before he changes to Regular Batman and takes out a regrettably feral bad guy. I'm wavering between 1 and 2 stars, but I actually enjoyed the book despite the silliness and the fantastically absurd art. I'm going with 2 stars, barely. View 2 comments. Sep 07, Sud rated it liked it Shelves: comics. Arkham Manor is not bad. I know, I know.. By dumbassedry I refer to a retconning of things to fit in with a "new" world view. It rarely works. The idea of Wayne manor being turned into the new Arkham is one of those things. Bruce Wayne with no money apparently he's broke? The story. It's Batman being a detective. I appreciate that. This is a good detective story. As the inmates are being housed in the new Arkham, someone begins to kill them. Batman infiltrates the Asylum as an inmate to find out who. Since the newer stories always have Batman operating at the level of a semi-retarded basket case, in order to justify the addition of a crapload of poor quality to totally shitty new characters that seem to always be part of his team. This one is just him trying to solve this case. I liked Duggan's writing and even enjoyed the thinking behind Batman in combat. That was well done. The story itself is also pretty damn decent. The art? Shawn Crystal isn't awful. But it is not good either. The renderings of Batman verge on him seeming to be anorexic. Some of the scenes are quite fine with this style, others suffer noticeably. Primarily when he shows the Batman. Still not a bad little read. I enjoyed it. Perhaps a Vol 2 in the future. Jul 10, Ivy rated it it was amazing Shelves: superheroes , i-own , supervillains , published-in , batman-bat-family , dc-comics. Glad I was able to. Very good comic. Hope Bruce will get his mansion back sometime. Can't wait to read more Batman comics!!!! Jul 21, Chris Lemmerman rated it it was amazing Shelves: comics-and-manga-read. I've since read the first volume of Academy, which was excellent, and am waiting for By Midnight's trade release to see how it compares. But whilst Arkham Manor may have flown under the radar, it definitely deserves to stand above the rest of the pack. Set inside Wayne Manor, now transformed into the new Arkham Asylum after the previous building was destroyed during the events of Batman Eternal, Batman goes undercover inside his own home to try and track down a killer, and of course, all manner pun intended of things go wrong in the six issues he's there, including some tie-ins to Gotham Academy, Endgame, and beyond.
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