Showing posts with label arabesques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arabesques. Show all posts
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 ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

QUICK ARABESQUE TURNS

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 When I initially wrote my first essay on the artistic differences between "grotesques" and "arabesques" in the Golden ...
Thursday, February 1, 2024

UP WITH FANTASY, DOWN WITH HORROR

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 In WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION, Schopenhauer distinguishes between "intuitive" and "abstract" representations: hum...

DARK ANTIPATHIES AND COLORFUL SYMPATHIES PT. 2

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 Batman, then, despite his handsome face and ripped body, is at heart a grotesque, because the very look of his costume inspires fear more t...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

DARK ANTIPATHIES AND COLORFUL SYMPATHIES

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Batman, then, despite his handsome face and ripped body, is at heart a grotesque, because the very look of his costume inspires fear more th...
Monday, August 21, 2023

MYTHCOMICS: BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN (1996-97)

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In contrast to the many admirers of the Loeb-Sale LONG HALLOWEEN, I didn't get much out of the collected issues after two separate readi...

THE EXCLUDED THIRD

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So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first...
Saturday, June 6, 2020

THE BAT-BACHELOR THREAD

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I concluded my GROTESQUES AND ARABESQUES post without formulating a “bachelor thread” for the Batman comics-series, because I wanted to r...
Friday, May 29, 2020

DARK GROTESQUES AND COLORFUL ARABESQUES

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As I’ve noted here and thee, most serial narratives never evolve any sort of discourse-thread beyond the level of “good will triumph over ...