THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

  I started thinking once more about the topic of "story-hosts" after re-reading Batman's visit to "The House of Mystery...

 I would say, then, that all mysteries after Poe tend to follow either the rational model of the Dupin stories, where the detective's ac...

 In the first COSMIC ALIGNMENT essay I cited a few exceptions to my general rule that every time a given Sub-icon appears within the cosmos...

This post at CRIVENS COMICS AND STUFF led me to ruminate a bit on the character of "the Incredible I Ching" as portrayed in his s...

In Part 1 , I emphasized that when I spoke of my newly christened category of "interordination," I conceived it to be a subset of ...

 I posted two essays about Denny O'Neil the week after he passed in 2020. One was a mythcomics appreciation of one of his QUESTION stori...

One of the aspects O’Neil frequently touched on in his Bronze Age Batman stories was the notion of the hero as a master martial ar...

It’s been roughly a week since the announcement of Denny O’Neil’s passing. I’m sure there have been any number of essays devoted to...