Life Without Buildings has an article about the “apocryphal” urban architecture in Frank Miller’s upcoming film adaptation of The Spirit. [C-Monster]

The classic comic series created by Will Eisner is set in Central City, a city “similar to DC’s other fictional cities such as Gotham City and Metropolis.”

In just that one minute of footage, we get an understanding of both the posthumous private eye and his relationship to the urban environment in his somewhat clumsy average-joe-meets-parkour sprint across the grim and gritty water tanked rooftops of the almost sublime Central City.