Gotham City

Maybe it's because I read a lot of fantasy novels and played a lot of video games in my misspent youth, but I've always really liked seeing maps of fictional places. I obsess over them, to the point where I could probably still get around Grand Theft Auto 3's Liberty City better than I could navigate sections of my own hometown...

In yet another late night diner conversation about pop culture, the After Hours crew at Cracked.com -- whom you may know from their fantastic discussion about the secret horror of Back to the Future -- debates whether or not Batman is actually good for Gotham City...

I'm a big fan of vintage travel posters. Some lovely prints of classic pieces depicting Africa and the Orient Express hang on my walls, but they might have to give way to a series of elegant travel posters based on some of genre fiction's most famous locales...

Last month we brought you a very cool look at Superman's home of Metropolis as it appears in DC Universe Online, the hotly anticipated massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the popular superheroes of DC Comics. Specifically, we took a lovely tour of the Metropolis Police Department, and it was indeed lovely...

We've linked to Ulises Farinas ("Motro") before, notably for his totally winning art of the Marvel and DC Universes in Lego, but after we saw the latest piece on his Flickr account, we knew we'd have to do it again. In the short comic, Lex Luthor infects Superman with a Starro-based "hypnotic neuro-viral" that forces him to attack Gotham City, where he faces off against the sup

Did you know that "revenge" was listed as the number one cause of death for all human resources personnel in Gotham City last year, or that 94% of polled Gotham residents listed "costumed villainy" as their backup career of choice? I sure didn't, but I can't say that I'm surprised...

Every comics fan has their favorite fictional (or in some cases factual) locales, but "The Architects' Journal" offers us Yanks a fresh perspective on the matter with a list of list of ten comic book cities that appeal to a more design-based (and British) perspective...