THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

In MESSING WITH MISTER INBETWEEN PT 2 I explained my reasons for not deeming Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE star Mayhew to be a less than com...

At the conclusion of THE PHENOMENALITY OF PSYCHOS  I wrote: At present I have not found a necessary connection between the two forms of t...

Since I've recently advanced the notions that (a) a combative work must contain no less than two opposed characters possessed of megadyn...

I'm tempted to subtitle this essay "the trouble with gangsters," since some of the considerations here stem from evaluating th...

To recap: fannish opinion usually considers that famed editor/writer Stan Lee didn't do anything of worth prior to Silver Age Marvel Com...

"...there were a few guys who did what I would call a complete world on paper.  If you looked at one panel of Jack Kirby, you knew whe...

Since it’s part of my personal identity to be an incorrigible list-maker, I don’t blush to admit that since the age of fifteen (some forty y...

I started refining some of my thoughts on the topic of "quality in popular culture" upon giving more thought about how one might d...

Before embarking on the long compare-and-contrast I announced in THE EXEMPLARY AND THE EXCEPTIONAL, I want to spotlight someone else's c...

Amusingly, I conceived the above pair of terms as part of my own ongoing concerns for defining the nature of "quality" in the popu...