Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
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Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.
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But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to increasingly more monstrous ideas.
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Your pleasures lessen in intensity the more the are repeated. Yet your capacity to experience ever more agony--is inexhaustible.
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Self-awareness: there is the black worm in the apple. Our curse is to know there's something terribly wrong with us.
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So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
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Nameless tells the story of a down-at-heel occult hustler known only as "Nameless" who is recruited by a consortium of billionaire futurists as part of a desperate mission to save the world. A massive asteroid named Xibalba — the "Place of Fear" in Mayan mythology — is on collision course with the planet Earth.
If that wasn't trouble enough, the asteroid has an enormous magical symbol carved into its side and is revealed to be a fragment of our solar system's lost fifth planet, Marduk, destroyed sixty-five million years ago at the end of an epic cosmic war between the inhabitants of Marduk and immensely powerful, life-hating, extra-dimensional "gods."
One of those beings is still alive, imprisoned on Xibalba, dreaming of its ultimate revenge on all that exists. When Nameless and his teammates inadvertently unleash this malignant soul-destroying intelligence, the stage is set for
Book details
- First published
- 2016
- Author
- Grant Morrison
- Genre
- Horror
- Goodreads rating
- 3.50 (4k ratings)
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