THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

  In DUELING DUALITIES PT 3  I suggested one reason for the lack of strong mythicity in the SPIDER-MAN feature was its investment in soap-op...

  Apparently Michael Moorcock so liked the title for his first Elric tale, one of novelette length, that he re-used it for the first full El...

I may or may not find time in near future to discuss the many current problems of illegal and quasi-legal US immigration. However, I did fin...

 This analysis of this long arc (18 chapters) is thematically tied to the one I arbitrarily titled KAGOME'S HEART , so reading that essa...

 In Part 1 , I advanced my new concept that iconicity, the nature of fictional icons, stemmed from two factors: activity, what the icons do,...

  In this essay from last May, I preserved this nugget from Whitehead's book SYMBOLISM: Here [Whitehead] states that his concept of rea...

 I'm trying to frame this as a response to a post claiming that in the 1980s "comics became a medium for young guys who didn't ...