THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

Friday, March 13, 2026

MIKAMI MEDITATIONS PT. 2

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 This post could have been a "near-myth" post, but as I get closer to finishing my reading of Takashi Shiina's GHOST SWEEPER M...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

THE READING RHEUM: THE SINGING CITADEL (1970)

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  I'm not sure how much further I'll delve into Michael Moorcock's Elric saga, since I often find the results uneven. I may just...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

MYTHCOMICS: "THE MAN WHO CAN SUMMON A STORM" (GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI, 1995)

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 As I write this, I've not yet finished reading the entire GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI manga online, but paused at Volume 2 (1996), three years...

MIKAMI MEDITATIONS

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My next mythcomics post will deal with a moderately obscure manga, GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI (1991-99), and so part of this essay will be to expl...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

WEIRDIES AND WORLDIES PT 4

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 In the previous three installments of the WEIRDIES AND WORLDIES series, starting here , I tried to distinguish two traditions of metaphenom...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

MYTHCOMICS: THE INHUMANS SAGA, FANTASTIC FOUR #44-48 (1965-66)

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  The title of FF #44"-- "Lo, There Shall Come an Ending" -- is more appropriate than its creators knew, for it can be seen a...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

NEAR-MYTHS: "LO, THERE SHALL COME AN ENDING," FANTASTIC FOUR #41-43 (1965)

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  For my four-hundredth mythcomic, I'm going to put the original "Inhumans Saga" under the myth-scrutiny lens. But Lee and Kir...
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