THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."-- Robert Frost. “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discriminati...

  I haven't been a fan, in the "fanatic" sense of the word, of hardly any comics-creator since the 1990s, which is pretty clos...

  It's a mark of my long-retired investment in the seventies X-MEN franchise that I can still recall the experience of reading the first...

  Though the X-Men character Storm was not the first Black superheroine, she became, within the subculture of comic book readers, the firs...

  In this story—hitherto abbreviated as “Things”—the roster for the New Mutants included Mirage, Cannonball, Magma, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Ma...

  I’m halfway through a reread of Marvel’s first NEW MUTANTS series, and I want to sum up the series at the point where my forthcoming my...

In the midst of his birthday celebration amid the other X-Men, Nightcrawler’s soul is stolen from his body. With the help of Doctor Str...

From the debut of the "All-New, All-Different" X-MEN, I've always regarded it as the serendipitous creation that made po...

In my last post I said: ...there remains a tendency for many critics to ignore the contributions of the unconscious/"primary concern...

In reaction to a review of Chris Claremont's X-WOMEN, Sean Collins remarks : Calling Chris Claremont "one of the more notably fe...