Arkham Asylum: Living Hell
DC · 2003 · 6 issues
About the series
Dan Slott and Ryan Sook’s six-issue DC miniseries Arkham Asylum: Living Hell (2003) takes readers inside Gotham’s infamous prison for the criminally insane, focusing not on Batman but on a white-collar criminal who must survive the asylum’s horrors. Slott’s script and Sook’s moody art deliver a psychological horror story that deepens the mythos of Arkham, showing it as a place where even the sane can be broken. This series matters for its claustrophobic, character-driven take on one of comics’ most iconic locations.