THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 In Part 3 of this essay-series, I asserted that the characters Henry Pym and Janet Van Dyne were better defined through their collective st...

In DOWNGRADING (OR DEGRADING) ON A CURVE , I discussed the dynamics of the BEWITCHED teleseries. I stated that even though the characters of...

 A story with a subordinate ensemble, however, has a collection of characters who function in the same way as the characters in a superordin...

 In ICONIC BONDING PT. 1  I formulated three types of bonded ensembles using the Dick Grayson Robin as an example of a character who had par...

My entire formulation of bonded ensembles is oriented upon trying to discern which subordinate icons are, or are not, bonded to which supero...

 So in  GLAD TO MEET YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME AGAIN , I sketched out three types of "bonded ensembles" in which fictional icons coul...

 So, Batman. He spends about a year fighting crime on his lonesome. According to my system of interordination, he's the sole superordina...

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...

 In A CROSSOVER MISCELLANY PT. 5 I formulated three types of ensemble features. One is the Exclusive Ensemble, in which all members of the ...

I wondered if a review of this 1982 curiosity-- put together when Jim Shooter still ruled Marvel Comics with an iron editorial hand-- might ...

In my review of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1930 novel A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS,  I mentioned that I was reluctant to call the book a crossover ...