THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

  In the 1960s, a familiar support-character in the DICK TRACY strip was Diet Smith, whose wealth and resources shepherded Tracy and his pol...

  “What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how...

 The dichotomy known as "power and potency" has been hanging around this blog since 2014's POWER AND POTENCY , the first essa...

  I'm in a reading-group that reads a fair amount of 21st-century fantasy and SF, and this means I end up skipping a fair number of read...

Last month, thanks to the auspices of the British weekly THE OBSERVER, Alan Moore once again bestowed upon a panting public his thoughts on ...

 I doubt the writers and artists knew in advance that AIRBOY #90 was fated to be the last issue of the series, a ten-year-old survivor of th...

 I'm only slightly versed in manga based around characters whom Japanese culture deems "shotacons;" i.e, "women attracted...