got lego scarecrow at the local comic store out of arkham asylum over the holiday and the lady grabbing him out of the display case called him A Cute One
Jim Gordon, on a recent visit to Arkham, overheard from the guards that a certain caped vigilante kept breaking through their security to make personal visits. I mean, Arkham security is shit as is, he didn't need one of the Bats fucking breaking their system every other week! I mean, what were they thinking?
Now Gordon is faced with a dilemma, which Bat did it?
He makes an awkward housecall to the Manor, and has to relay the news to an in-cowl Bruce that one of his kids has been causing even more trouble for the Arkham guards. Bruce says nothing other than a small "mm". Gordon removes his glasses to clean them and, in that time, Bruce is gone. Well, not his problem anymore... He needs a vacation.
Bruce sends an alert out to all his kids with a memo to not, under any circumstances, break into Arkham! There's one issue though, more than one Bat was responsible.
Every Sunday, Dick brings the leftovers from Sunday Lunch to Waylon. The circus used to do a big lunch on Sundays, which became the allotted rest time with no training or shows. As such, Dick likes to keep the tradition alive when he can.
You're not allowed to bring food into Arkham, so Dick has to shimmy both himself and the food through the sewers to get to Waylon's cage cell. It's worth it though, just for the reminder that Waylon is more than his moniker, he's the oldest family Dick has.
Dick has convinced Alfred that the leftovers go to Goliath (bones and all).
Jason, as a criminal himself, finds it very easy to get into Arkham. The hard part is getting back out. Every few weeks, he lets himself get caught, purely to beat the crap out of Black Mask, laugh in his face, then break back out.
Initially, he broke in to kill the Joker, but he panicked before he could get to the whole floor used to house him. As such, Jason refuses to go below level -2 in order to stay out of range of that goddamm laughter.
Listen, if Tim wanted a villain to match him in wits, he could go to Ra's, issue is he doesn't want some creepy old man drooling all over him. So instead Tim plays board games with the self-proclaimed 'Riddle Master'.
It started with Nygma managed to get hold of a phone and sent Tim a request on Chess.com. The device was soon confiscated, but now, every Thursday evening, Tim loops the camera footage while he and Ed play various boardgames, ranging from Chess, to Monopoly, to Hungry Hippos (there are not a lot of boardgames in Arkham).
Steph typically sneaks in around the same time as Tim, the cameras are already looping after all (Tim has no idea she's there). Once in, she tracks down one or more than the Gotham City Sirens for a catch up. She keeps 3 thermoses on her for whatever siren she can find. Peppermint tea for Harley, coffee for Selina, and Vodka for Pamela.
The best days are when all three are in, then they all migrate to whatever plant-filled lair Pamela has cultivated, chilling and gossiping until Tim finishes up with Nygma.
If Cluemaster keeps finding scratches, spray paint, and foliage on his shit, well, the Sirens have no idea what you're talking about.
Cass does not have much desire to talk to any of the various costumed rogues. She does however, wish to analyse some of them. It's hard to get time to properly observe anyone when, as soon as they see her, they take off in fear. Thus, the arrangement was made.
Every Tuesday morning, Cass slips through the ventilation system before appearing in the cell of one Jonathan Crane. The two will sit on the ground, legs in a basket, and stare at each other, taking occasional notes. At the end of the hour, they will trade notes and tick/cross points depending on accuracy.
Jonathan likes the opportunity to analyse a subject without their constant jabbering (cough *Edward* cough). He's also the only person who cannot fear Black Bat.
A note from Crane may be:
Tired. Long patrol. Estimated sleep 3 hrs 30 mins.
(✔️ 3 hrs 15 mins)
And a note from Cass:
Tendon twitch, wear leg brace tomorrow.
Damian doesn't visit Arkham. He instead pet-sits for Harley sometimes. Lou and Bud are surprisingly well trained and oddly affectionate when not attacking someone. So Damian checks in on them while their mother is locked up. This has resulted in a weird situation where, after Joker tried to sick the hyenas on Robin, they instead bounded over and flopped over for belly scratched.
The only time(s) Damian has broken into the Asylum was to deliver pictures of what the two hyenas got up to in his care to Harley. These pictures have included:
Bud standing on top of Lou so that he can pull food from the higher up cabinets. (Not captured was Alfred's confusion at how paw prints were on the cabinet doors).
Lou, having tried to drink out the toilet, with the seat stuck round his head after being ripped from the porcelain.
Both hyenas fast asleep cuddled up to Batcow (the only meat they do not eat). (Also not captured was how Damian joined them straight after).
Duke patrols during the day, so no need to break in. He simply takes the time to visit every Monday morning. There's a serious case of the Mondays among the rogues as a walking lightbulb wakes everyone up on his patrol of the halls.
You ever been sleeping, however uncomfortably, when the full concentrated force of the fucking Sun suddenly appears, with a weirdly wide grin, loudly exclaiming about how wonderful a day it is outside and what not? It would make you commit crimes as well.
The villain who gets it the worst is Penguin since, by the time he gets to his cell, Duke is singing Good Morning from Singing in the Rain. It's juuuuust off-key enough to piss Oswald off even more.
After Bruce sends the alert out, all of the Birds decide to stop their break-ins for a while, at least until the heat has died down. This has unexpected consequences. By the time the weekend rolls around, Jim Gordon shows up, even more exasperated than before. He reports a change in Arkham:
Waylon has been picking fights with staff, and has been unable to subdue. He keeps ranting about birds and circuses and Sundays roasts? Then there's Sionis, who is convinced that there's something hiding in the shadows, waiting for him to drop his guard. He's even more hysterical than Jervis now, which is quite the achievement.
Then there are the Riddler and Scarecrow, who have both claimed to have been 'bored'. That doesn't seem like a good enough excuse for tearing the wires out the fucking walls in order to build a fucking robot, or for gassing almost every warden who walks past him.
Ivy, Harley and Selina have been weirdly quiet, which was very disconcerting. Well, it was until all three escaped at the same time. Harley immediately reuniting with Lou and Bud, who had been terrorising a local park for the last few days.
Throughout the weird shift in tempers in the Asylum, the weirdest one seems to be Oswald, who seems better rested than ever?
Rouges...but i really like the bronze and silver age and wanted to draw them in that older style :)
And this isn't a comic redraw or anything, it's all my own art and idea and I'm really proud with how it turned out!! I really love this kind of shading and wish it came back in style <3
I could convince someone this was a comic panel if I tried hard enough hehe..
(Previous sketches and yellow background alternative below)
