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Thursday, November 12, 2015

NULL-MYTHS: ""TRIGON LIVES" (NEW TEEN TITANS #5-6, 1981)

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I can appreciate the fondness with which many fans regard the original Marv Wolfman-George Perez NEW TEEN TITANS. The book was one of th...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

MYTHCOMICS: "SECRET OF THE MYSTERIOUS GIRL," LOVE HINA (1999)

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(I date this story "1999" because that's the date given for the whole volume of translated stories in which the story app...

ANOTHER QUICK COMMENT-PRESERVATION

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In reaction to this Ng Suat Tong essay at HU , I wrote: I don't think it's correct to take a single incident from one Tarzan con...
Friday, November 6, 2015

NIETZSCHE VS. THE NEOPURITAN NANNIES PT. 2

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The "Neopuritan nannies" referenced in Part 1 were pretty much the Usual Gang of Bloody Comic Book Elitists, but I've never m...

NULL-MYTHS: HOLY TERROR (2011)

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For this short review I won't get into all the hand-wringing politics as to whether Miller, or anyone, could have produced in moder...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

MYTHCOMICS: "THE HARD GOODBYE" (SIN CITY feature, 1991)

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The individual ‘yarns” in Frank Miller’s SIN CITY sage range anywhere from “very good” to “mediocre. But the first one—latterly entitled “T...

ASPIRIN FOR ANTHOLOGIES

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In the previous essay I alluded to some of the phenomenological headaches I incur in trying to analyze a series like Frank Miller's SIN...
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