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Friday, September 11, 2026

THE OBSESSIVE-TRANSGRESSIVE PT. 2

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 Looking back at Part 1 , I don't think I mapped out the relationship of the differing forms of cathexis with respect to the Bataillean ...
Monday, September 7, 2026

THE OBSESSIVE-TRANSGRESSIVE

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  I'll probably never use the titular term "obsessive-transgressive" on a regular basis, for the phenomenon I'm addressing...
Thursday, September 3, 2026

CATFIGHT AT THE P.P. CORRAL

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 In my review of ONE MORE DAY , I said: I also heard that this retcon came about because editor Joe Quesada-- who also furnished the art for...

A GOTHIC ANCESTOR

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 I'm still working, perhaps just for my own amusement, on my book re: the superhero idiom, and decided to elide this example of what I...
Friday, August 28, 2026

THE INFINITY CRUSADE (2000)

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  Technically, in my system the two-volume TPB INFINITY CRUSADE-- made up of a same-titled 6-issue series plus an assortment of crossover-bo...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

MYTHCOMICS: SWAMP THING 1989 (2026)

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  So, the only vote is in, and all four stories of SWAMP THING '89 make the "mythcomics cut," unlike all previous 23 issues of...
Monday, August 24, 2026

NEAR-MYTHS: "WILD THINGS," "TIME UPON A ONCE" (SWAMP THING #65-87 (1987-89)

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  My proximate reason for re-reading Rick Veitch's 23-issue run on the artist's run on the regular SWAMP THING was to remind myself ...
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