Pick a comic-book city to live in.

Kandor? I’ll bring a glass-cutter so I can make day trips.

The problem with cities is that they seem to attract crazies, monsters and power-mad supervillains. Worse, the various superheroes that live there never seem to be able to finish off the bad guys.

Now that I’m older I really don’t need that much excitement, so I think I’ll settle down in Pittsfield. It was the home town of Lois Lane, nothing much ever happened there (and since Lois left, it seems to have fallen off the radar completely.) And it’s close enough to Metropolis that I can head over there for dinner and a show.

Let’s see…how many of Miyazaki’s films were based on a manga, or had an adaptation? (Preferably one with more cute, spunky young ladies than gibbering Eldrich horrors. :smiley: )

Anyway, I suppose it goes without saying that if Manga can count, you’d probably have a whole range of delightful new choices of cities to immigrate to—mostly divided between “peaceful and charming” and “good god, just kill yourself immediately to avoid the horror of being eaten.”

But yeah…Duckburg is probably my all-around choice, too. “Callisota” might actually not be too far from where I’m living on Earth, if it’s not the same region altogether. I might even be able to move into the alternate version of my own house again.

There is no option other than Opal City, especially now that they have that pesky “trap your soul there forever when you die” problem cleared up. It’s like all the good bits of Gotham and Metropolis with none of the bad.

Gotham’s not so bad. I imagine it as sort of like a superhero Seattle, even though I know most of the artists are inspired by Chicago in their vision of it.

It’s dark and rainy and stuff, but it only looks that bad because Batman never operates during the day. We only eee the city at night, so of course we’re going to get a creepy vibe from it.

Opal City for me and Mr. Bawlmer too.

If Tokyo is allowed, then I’ll go for Onomichi, the setting of several anime/manga, including one of my favourites, Kamichu! (And, of course, I’d want to be able see all the kami there).

Came in here just to say that. There will never be another city equal to it.

I want to live in the Gotham City of Earth 2 where there are giant models of everyday objects used as advertising gimmicks and the criminals are largely harmless and goofy.

Best be really careful when requesting Earth-2. What if FC dumps you there 5 minutes before the antimatter walls destroy everything?

I’d go with either Metropolis or Opal City. Opal has all that great architecture and Parisian feel to it, but Metropolis has the big guy. Unfortunately, that tends to mean it also gets the worst of the worst and has to be rebuilt every other month but hey, you gotta take the bad with the good.

Can I just go to Cynosure? Yeah, it is scary, but access to everything…

**The City ** from The Tick

Does Coruscant count? (I only know it from Attack of the Clones but I’m sure it must feature in a SW comic book somewhere.)

Mechanicsburg from Girl Genius might be fun.

Does Paradise Island qualify as a city?

Exactly. That’s what makes Mechanicsburg fun. :smiley:

Anywhere in the Amory Wars is right out, too. When your worlds aren’t falling from their orbits, fell mutated priest-monsters hunting you down, it’s those damn Jersey Devils out on a gang bang.

I really like Metroville from The Incredibles, too. A nice mix of modern and older architecture, and a beautiful downtown (once it’s been cleaned up from the Omnidroid’s rampage).

I think there have indeed been comics based on LOTR, so Minas Tirith in the early days of the Fourth Age, with the White Tree once again in bloom and King Elessar on the throne, would be sweet.

Springfield from The Simpsons certainly is packed with interesting people, but I wouldn’t want to be there when the big glass dome is lowered over it. Look for me in Moe’s or the Android’s Dungeon.

Just about any city in the utopic Earth of Star Trek, either in episodes, movies or comics, would be pleasant. San Francisco looks particularly good.

The quaint, semi-European, semi-Japanese city in which the young witch settles in Kiki’s Delivery Service has a nice vibe to it.

Keystone or Central City. It’s the Flash, and the bad guys are not as kill-crazy as Gotham (mostly).