ACT ONE / A SERIOUS HOUSE ON SERIOUS EARTH.

HELLHOUNDS HAULED OFF TO ARKHAM ASYLUM
THREE DEAD IN NOVIKOVA–LED ATTACK ON CORRUPT POLITICIAN.
VICKI VALE, THE GOTHAM GAZETTE.

After a bombing at the Bristol County mansion of Gotham City councillor Jeremiah Figgs that claimed the lives of Figgs and his two brothers, Khristina "Psyche" Novikova, Lonnie "Anarky" Machin and Sienna "Maverick" Huynh — popularly known as the Gotham City Hellhounds — have been hauled back to Arkham Asylum by the Batman. The attack comes just after Novikova, who is alleged to be behind the attack, plastered the walls at City Hall with evidence of Figgs embezzling money from the city to pay Oswald "The Penguin" Cobblepot to tamper with votes during the council election earlier this year.

Far from the first time that the three have been dragged to Arkham by Gotham's very own caped crusader, this marks the first time that the Hellhounds have been seen (and caught) working together. The three met at Arkham Asylum and reportedly were "forced together" for a youth program, which spawned a triumvirate intent on wreaking havoc on our city. With the ease of their breakout, and subsequent weeks spent evading the GCPD, the question remains: is it still safe to send our criminals to Arkham Asylum, or does the dilapidated, understaffed asylum provide the perfect breeding ground for a new, harsher, deadlier kind of criminal?

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