THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

I'm aware of no fully mythic Thanksgiving stories. But Will Eisner managed a cute near-myth with a tale of a turkey who is seemingly spa...

I've been a little curious lately as to when comic books began making sustained use of the fantasy-trope that radiation can cause either...

 So in the previous two installments of this essay-series, I've addressed AT-AT Pilot's essential question. "Is it possible for...

I'm putting a short hold on the next EVIL post, to respond to a comment by AT-AT Pilot in the comments to Part 2. One of his two referen...

In Part 1 , I stated that Northrop Frye wasn't an influence on my own literary theories of "work and play," but George Bataill...

As I begin this post, I'm not sure how many parts this essay-series will run. Meditations on the nature of evil tend to lead anyone down...

If people say you can’t do something, then you want to do it even more. Things that are considered forbidden, means other people aren’t doin...