Friday, May 1, 2026

ABOMINABLE ACT

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 Re: ACT's successful campaign against cartoon superheroes in the late 1960a-- ____________ ACT might be considered the stepchild of W. ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

THE READING RHEUM: DOCTOR WERTHLESS (2025)

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  For some years I've wondered: what kind of child was Frederic Wertham? There are no official biographies of the man who "nearly k...
Monday, April 27, 2026

MYTHC0MICS: "CALL OF THE WILD" (CONAN THE KING #28, 1985)

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  I'm sure it's been at least twenty years since I read an issue of this Marvel magazine, which began in 1980 as KING CONAN and whic...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

THE READING RHEUM: STOP, IN THE NAME OF GOD (2026)

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  In KEEPING VS SHARING , I confessed that I was not well-acquainted with the philosophy of Charlie Kirk at the time of his untimely assassi...
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Sunday, April 19, 2026

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ANOMALIES PT 3

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  Arguably a lot more uncanny narratives invoke passive potency than do marvelous ones...-- ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ANOMALIES PT 2. Aesop's f...
Friday, April 17, 2026

CURIOSITIES: DITKO RUBS OUT RATS

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In JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY 81-- slightly before the debut of Thor-- Lee and Ditko have an exaggerated opinion as to the power wielded by comic ...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

MYTHCOMICS: "ENDS OF THE EARTH" (ALL-STAR BATMAN #6-9, 2017)

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 The stories that endure? The "demons" that win? They're the ones that speak to who we want to be. Not the ones that scare us ...