THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 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...

Before delving more into the question of "Bat-legitimacy," I want to lay down some background as to what ways, if any, characters ...

One of the most famous tropes of the superhero idiom is that of "strength concealed by weakness," or, alternately, "strength ...

I speak of Zorro, the fox, who in a real sense is one of the "grandfathers" of the superhero genre, even if many people don...

“All narrative is a movement between two equilibriums which are similar but not identical.”-- Todorov, THE FANTASTIC, p. 163. The unspoken c...

Q: “Why isn’t Batman a superhero?”—many many comic-book message-boards As a pluralist critic, I value any form of criticism—naïve as much as...