DC Comics has unveiled their newest series set in none other than Bruce Wayne’s original home.
“Arkham Manor” takes place after Arkham Asylum was destroyed and Gotham decides to seize Wayne Manor to how the city’s most disturbed felons. Batman agrees the Manor is the best place for them, until the inmates start dying and the caped vigilante realizes it’s an inside job.
“Arkham Manor” writer Gerry Duggan explained to USA Today he and artist Shawn Crystal are having a lot of fun with the new “Batman” comic series.
"There is the obvious threat of will the inmates get into the cave, but for me that wasn't even really the most interesting thing about the story," Duggan told USA Today. "It's about thematically, what is that building? It is a home that Bruce Wayne himself was healed in as a younger man after his tragedy, and now it has the opportunity to heal some other sick people.
"Even though it is an Arkham book with some very dangerous, sick people, we've managed to find the fun in that, and not at the expense of the mentally ill. It's the thing I wake up every day and run to my computer to write."
There are some inmates inside of Arkham Manor that don’t despise living in the new mental asylum. Duggan explained some villains just want a meal, a warm bed and to be out of Batman’s way, but their lives take a turn for the worst due to the powers at be both inside and out of Arkham Manor.
"It's kind of a treat but unfortunately their rest will be disturbed,” he said. “There will be both internal and external forces at work that will have big implications for the people of Gotham."
