Batcave

While it's hardly the most groundbreaking or notable thing to happen in the issue, one of the scenes that most intrigued me in this week's Batman and Robin #16 was a page by Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham in which the villainous Dr. Hurt lured Batman into a a strange, mirror-lined room in the Batcave...

There's a river of sweat running down your back, abandoned cars spontaneously bursting into flames everywhere you go, swarms of insects trying to lay their eggs in you, and the threat of being mauled by gangs of feral dogs is more real than ever...

Back in 1995, legendary Batman artist Dick Sprang produced a lithograph for DC called "Secrets of the Batcave," and it is awesome: (Click to Bat-Size) I'm pretty familiar with it (my old boss used to have a signed copy hanging in the store), but it wasn't until I was looking at it today that I realized just how much Sprang worked into the art...

The Batcave is usually a place where a brooding crimefighter or two can sit and secretly nap in front of a huge series of monitors running top of the line iTunes visualizers. But following this week's release of "Batman: Arkham Asylum," anyone who buys the game on the PlayStation 3 can just waltz in and do as they please...