Friday, April 5, 2019

MYTHCOMICS: {THE FALL OF DRACULA], TOMB OF DRACULA #45-70, 1976-79)

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[SPOILERS, SPOILERS everywhere] During the Silver Age the long story-arc ( defined here ), long a standard in the comic-strip medium, beca...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

NULL-MYTHS: THE SILVER AGE SUICIDE SQUAD (1959-66)

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In this essay, which contains an explanation of my term "null-myth," I mentioned that Mark Millar's WANTED was one of the few ...
Monday, April 1, 2019

NEAR MYTHS: THE WORLD GOD ONLY KNOWS PT. 1 (2008)

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Since there are over 200 installments of the 2008-2014 manga series THE WORLD GOD ONLY KNOWS, and I've only read the first 20 or so, it...

QUICK THOUGHTS ON SPIKE LEE'S BLACKKLANSMAN

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The above image is the cleverest thing to have come out of the 2018 BLACKKLANSMAN, partly because of the juxtaposition of the threatenin...
Friday, March 29, 2019

CONCRESCENCE AND THE KINETIC POTENTIALITY

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At the end of CONCRESCENCE AND COMPLICATION I wrote: ....since I've gone to great effort to expound upon the ways in which complexi...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

MYTHCOMICS: "CLOUD OF WITNESS" (SON OF SATAN #4-7, 1976)

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NOTE: I'm using "Cloud of Witness," the title of the first story in this four-issue arc, to denote the whole arc. I'm not ...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

MYTHCOMICS: "RANDOM CHOICE" (SECRET ORIGINS OF SUPER-VILLAINS #1, 1999)

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Psychological myths, as I've mentioned, are not the same as just as any functioning psychological aspect of this or that fictional chara...