Design

Batman and Gotham: A Deeply Dysfunctional Love Story

Why the Dark Knight's relationship to his city is unlike that of any other superhero.
Warner Brothers

In 2008, Batman went a little crazy.

It wasn’t his fault. He’d been intentionally pushed into a semi-delusional state by a villain called the Black Glove. Standing on top of a typically gothic Gotham City skyscraper, Batman—maybe hallucinating, maybe not—hears the gargoyles talking.