Writer Grant Morrison has postponed his work on the followup to Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, but the Philip K. Dick inspired story isn't dead in the water.

In an interview with TechRadar, Morrison confirmed that his other priorities had gotten in the way of finishing the new story. "I kind of wrote 26 pages of it, and it got shelved because the television work was taking up so much time," said Morrison. "But again, I never say never because I think [those] 26 pages were pretty good."

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The first Arkham Asylum graphic novel was released on Sept. 5, 1989, and follows Batman as he battles his way through his rogues' gallery in the gothic penitentiary. After Commissioner Gordon tells him that the patients have taken it over, Batman has to go to Arkham, or else they'll murder the staff. This sends him on a dark adventure through the labyrinthine asylum where he has to play twisted games and confront himself and his own sanity.

Morrison mentioned working with Arkham Asylum artist Chris Burnham in Detective Comics #1027 and that it reignited his fire for the project. "It gave me the taste again because he was going to draw the second Arkham Asylum, too," the writer continued. "But no, I had a story – it's very, very, very different from the original book. It was more of a Philip K. Dick thing. It's still there. It's still one of these things that may happen."

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Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick is one of the most respected names in the genre and known for such works as the novel-turned-Amazon Prime series Man in the High Castle as well as A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Morrison isn't unaccustomed to referencing the infamous author. In his Vertigo comic book series The Invisibles, Morrison used elements from Dick's novels to tell the story of a group of superpowered misfits saving the world from an esoteric secret society.

Source: TechRadar