Ive penned a good few articles on the Batman for WhatCulture! by now. After all, hes probably my favourite fictional character of all time; Id even go so far as to say that hes my A subject. Hes more than a character to me. Hes a symbol, an ideal to strive towards (much more than Superman ever was). If I can just
be a little more like Batman, maybe I wouldnt get so anxious, so overwhelmed by life in general. Maybe Id be able to make a
difference. So thats why, no matter where my quest for the consumption of
all fiction (and all the lessons fiction teaches) takes me, Ill always return to the Batman. Batmans been around for a while (edit: gross understatement). For over eighty years in fact. And in that time, Gotham City has changed considerably; hell, Batman and his family of allies have changed considerably. And over the years the different locations scattered around Gotham city have risen and fallen from prominence; fame is a fickle mistress it seems, even within the pages of a comic book. But every now and then, a location crops up that sticks in the memory. Not just in yours or mine either, but in the memory of writers and artists that tell our favourite Batman stories. Said locations will be revisited, re-examined, reimagined and before we know it, have been committed into modern popular iconography. These are the locations this article aims to talk about; those locations you
will know, will have visited yourself repeatedly on your travels at Batmans side. So lets set a course for the Gotham City skyline and get to it shall we?