THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

Dick Giordano passed away on 3-27-10. He's not quite the last of the old-time "blood and thunder" comics-creators, since peop...

I've sometimes thought about writing more essays here in which I analyze this or that story (whether in comics or another medium) along ...

While I've always admired LOST for not spoonfeeding its viewers tons of exposition, I think the show's writers have stayed away from...

This month the heirs of Jack Kirby, in accordance with copyright law, filed for many of the Marvel properties which Kirby co-created with St...

In this comment-thread Charles Reece is good enough to imply that I'm a subjectivist with this winsome phrase: "I can't much he...

Inasmuch as I typed a long example of adaptation for one respondent, who failed to respond to it, I may as well transfer it here as a basis ...

"Socrates: In like manner, I want you to tell me what part of justice is piety or holiness, that I may be able to tell Meletus not to d...