10 Most Disturbing Moments In Batman Comics

Grant Morrison's 1989 Arkham Asylum series is iconic within ranks of Batman comics and fans for one precise reason: it's entirely messed up. Between a surreal and haunting art style, and a similarly haunting storyline that covers Batman's rogue's gallery taking over the Asylum, A Serious House on Serious Earth was destined to be one of the darker stories of the Dark Knight.

Interestingly enough though, the darkest part of the whole thing doesn't even take place in the Asylum, as the main storyline is randomly interrupted by the delightfully awful private life of the Asylum's founder, Amadeus Arkham. While learning about his strange childhood is intense enough, things are kicked up by several notches when one of the Asylum's patients, named Mad Dog, manages to escape and murder Arkham's wife and child, dismembering both and carving his name into them.

It's equal parts disturbing and impressive, as it's all so well written and drawn that you're stuck not wanting to know what happened, and yet unable to look away - especially when Arkham finds his daughter's head in her old dollhouse, which is equally traumatic for him and the reader.