THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

  The opening scene of THE LIVING SHADOW--in which the mysterious crusader confronts would-be suicide Harry Vincent and convinces him to dev...

I should preface my remarks on Howard Chaykin’s four-issue SHADOW series by stating that I was never ( unlike the celebrated Harlan Ellison...

The 1989-92 run of THE SHADOW STRIKES only lasted 31 issues, and so was probably not judged a great success at the time. The title doesn...

Once more I return to the quote that started these meditations on legitimizing pop fiction: In part it seems like Batman comic book fans h...

Once again, a commentary on the 1966 BATMAN  show by Noah Berlatsky provides me with more grist for my mills, which, as the saying goes, gr...

"As John Gardner said in his book ON MORAL FICTION, there is room in the world for trivial art, but it is only because high art exists ...