Wednesday, June 28, 2017

MYTHCOMICS: "THE PLIGHT OF THE PUPPET-FLASH" (THE FLASH #133, 1962)

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In this post I agreed with Grant Morrison that the majority of villains in the Silver Age FLASH were personifications of natural forces...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

MYTHCOMICS: "THE DOLL'S HOUSE" (THE SANDMAN #10-16, 1989-90)

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In the same year that Neil Gaiman began his long run on THE SANDMAN title, he also did a couple of (apparent) tryouts for the SWAMP THING ti...
Friday, June 16, 2017

JUST ANOTHER ADAM WEST ANECDOTE

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I won't assert what many fans of "1966 BATMAN" have asserted: that Adam West-- who passed on June 9, 2017-- was the Only Real ...

MYTHCOMICS: "BATTLE FOR WOMANHOOD" (WONDER WOMAN #5, 1943)

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Since I just finished my review of the new WONDER WOMAN film this week, this week’s mythcomic will be another selection frojm the Golden A...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

PENALTY FOR THRESHOLDING

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I reviewed both the 1987 STEPFATHER  and the 1993 PRAYING MANTIS   in the same month in 2017, but it only recently occurred to me that the l...
Friday, June 9, 2017

PROPPIAN PONDERINGS PT. 3

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I'm returning to the topic of this brief "series," last seen in 2014 , because one of the films I've just reviewed speaks ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

MYTHCOMICS: "THE PEERLESS POWER OF THE SILVER SURFER" (FF ANNUAL #5, 1967)

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In my essay on the first appearance of the Silver Surfer, I wrote: For all that the Surfer is not integral to the conflict's resolut...