THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

The Barbara Gordon Batgirl, despite being one of the more iconically recognizable superheroines since her creation in 1966, has not fostered...

I'd read some decent reviews of this 2014-15 series, though I've the impression that most of the "big changes" instituted ...

In the previous post on this subject, I specified that whenever two or more icons with their own stature, a stature resulting from their ap...

Yeah, once again I tossed out a quick, snide jibe at an essay to which THE BEAT linked here : an essay in which the author claimed that Robi...

Just to get the title-explanation out of the way, the "greatest enemy" of Batgirl-- and indeed, of most if not all fictional chara...

Now that I've finished my review of the 2016 DVD-adaptation of the Moore-Bolland KILLING JOKE graphic novel, I may as well return to a l...

For a null-mythic version of the Joker, I strongly considered the 2012 storyline "Death in the Family," which extended over an ar...

In FEMALE OF THE SPECIES PART 2 I observed with incredulity the way a certain contingent of comics-fandom gave Kelly Thompson a free pass r...

"In the structuralist paradigm as developed by Lévi-Strauss in Les structures élémentaires de la parenté--whose limitations are dissect...