Went to The Cite Architecture Museum for a special exhibition on comics and architecture. I really enjoyed this and learned a great deal. There was a quote in the exhibition that really struck me:

            Paris isn’t an exotic city. The comic book characters who frequent it, walk there, simply. Most likely because the city has kept its historic dimension intact, monuments and Haussmannian boulevards, recesses and bridges vaulted by the girders made in Eiffel’s workshops. 
            From the fog coating the Tolbiac bridge to the Montmartre butte where the 1870 Commune finished, Jacques Tardi describes a Paris on the ground across which Adele Blanc-Sec’s shadow slithers. Enki Bilal, in Foire aux Immortels, projects himself into the Paris of 2023, but the zinc roofs of the buildings and the Parisian metro are still there. In the Paris of the comic book there are very few car chases, the streets don’t really lend themselves to them. The characters of Dupuy-Berberian and Jean-Claude Denis stroll, simply. Paris remains the ideal city of the heroes’ intimacy.