THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

Like this group of quickie reviews I did in May, there's nothing about these items that firmly aligns them, in terms of symbolic discou...

Though I'd already seen the 2022 movie BLACK ADAM without having read this JSA compilation, I decided I would give the TPB a read in ord...

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

The third and fourth categories deal with narrative presences who are dominantly known for being Subs, which means that they may possess cha...

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS GOLDEN AGE, written by James Robinson and penciled by Paul Smith, is an Elseworlds take on some of the many latte...

                              The last comics-item I rated as an inconsummate null-myth was 1965’s “ THE HAUNTED ISLAND ” (CHALLENGERS OF T...

I suppose I'm late to dinner on this one, given that Robert Kirkman's SECRET HISTORY OF THE COMICS showed up in 2017. I probably hea...

In my first essay on this subject, written three years ago, I pointed out the way a given group of characters might accue mythic amplitude ...

For this week's mythcomic , I selected the second of two "Bug-Eyed Bandit" stories scripted for the Silver Age ATOM comic by G...

Just as I've occasionally expressed disappointment that Jerry Siegel's earliest SUPERMAN stories were underwhelming even for pulp-ac...

In January and February 2016 I wrote three AMPLITUDE ATTITUDE essays, starting here , on the subject of using this term to gauge the differ...

Most Justice Society stories fail to take advantage of their own epic potential. Perhaps it's because of the quasi-anthology structure o...