THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

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

 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 ...

 While this blog is never at the best of times a hub of excitement, for me the most compelling event was my identification of the first post...

 I've mentioned in previous year-summaries that I've been sharing some of my essays on the comics-site BLEEDING FOOL. My most ambiti...

I suppose 2023, in comparison to the previous two years, sums up as more of a re-elaboration of old concepts than a bounty of new ones. I co...

 In Part 1 of this essay-series, I noted that a lot of film critics have ample ways of authenticating the major developments both in genera...

 In 2019 Martin Scorsese said, in part: Many franchise films are made by people of considerable talent and artistry. You can see it on the s...

 I first used the terms "formal postulate" and "informal postulate" here , but I've devoted many earlier posts to su...

I've mentioned elsewhere on this blog that I'm a big fan of one of Leslie Fiedler's quotes from his 1982 book WHAT WAS LITERATUR...

So in the first part of this two-part essay series , I analyzed all the stories in "Marvel's first shared-universe, multiple-series...

I didn't get much out of Douglas Wolk's 2021 book ALL OF THE MARVELS, an admittedly yeoman effort to observe how Marvel Comics used ...

 Year 2022 was dominantly my "year of the crossover." Though I started my first systematic analysis of the phenomenon in late 2021...