Batman villain Professor Pyg could potentially run Arkham Asylum successfully, based on Arkham City: The Order of the World.

Yes, Professor Pyg. The twisted serial killer in a pig mask obsessed with perfection, who butchers his victims and turns them into mindless drones. That Professor Pyg. A preview for the final issue of writer Dan Watters' Arkham City: The Order of the World shows various Gotham villains, like Mad Hatter and Double X, as docile members of Pyg's makeshift asylum, which is set up in an abandoned meat-packing plant.

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If he didn't threaten his captive workers with a cleaver, maybe he could run the new Arkham Tower, being that it will need a new head soon. In the current "Shadows of the Bat" arc of Detective Comics, the facility has been a front for supplying drugs to gangs and scamming Gotham City's Mayor Nakano out of a lot of money. The whole operation has been orchestrated by Dr. Tobias Wear with help from Psycho Pirate, though the very first issue -- Detective Comics #1047 -- revealed that the story is the tragedy for Wear, who is killed when the inmates take control of the facility.

Pyg's psychopathic tendencies may make him a poor choice to be the Tower's new leader, but Order of the World does introduce a new variation of the character that we have not seen before. In comics and his appearances in media, like Batman: Arkham Knight and The CW's Batwoman, Pyg is a lot like how he was previously described (murderer obsessed with perfection), albeit with some changes each time. The Gotham television series actually changed up his character significantly to being a hired hand who takes on different serial killer personas, with the Pyg identity simply being the one he adopted after he was hired by mob boss hopeful Sofia Falcone.

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The reason why Pyg is now interested in running his own asylum in comics is cited as being an additional aspect of his desire for perfection, now focusing on perfection of the mind. Being that Pyg's asylum is not a legitimate operation and Arkham Tower appears to be on the fast track to failure, it calls into question if Gotham will ever have a successful care facility for the criminally insane. Arkham Asylum is still in ruins following its destruction in Infinite Frontier #0.

The preview and solicitation for Arkham City: The Order of the World #6 can be found below.

ARKHAM CITY: THE ORDER OF THE WORLD #6

  • Written by DAN WATTERS
  • Art by DANI
  • Cover by SAM WOLFE CONNELLY
  • Variant cover by KAARE ANDREWS
  • $3.99 US | 32 pages | 6 of 6 | $4.99 US Variant (card stock)
  • ON SALE 3/1/22
  • Dr. Joy has reunited with her missing patients. Now all the survivors of Arkham Asylum's destruction are together again under one very, very nice and normal roof. But they are not alone in this strange reflection of their old home. For there is a specter with them, one of flame, flesh, and righteous fury—the angel Azrael, and he is very, very angry.

Arkham City: The Order of the World #6 is written by Watters with interior art by Dani, colors by Dave Stewart, letters by Aditya Bidikar and main cover art by Sam Wolfe Connelly. A variant cover for the issue was created by Kaare Andrews. The issue goes on sale March 1 from DC Comics.

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Source: DC Comics