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Saturday, February 29, 2020

MYTHCOMICS: BETTER THAN BATMAN (2016)

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Note: BETTER THAN BATMAN is culled from seven NIGHTWING stories that did not appear in a single run of issues. I'm reviewing the TPB col...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

THE MANY MYTHOI OF BATMAN

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I've been giving some thought to the different creative eras through which Batman has passed, and found myself posting this on CHFB: _...
Monday, February 24, 2020

MYTHCOMICS: "ODDBALL ODYSSEY" (UNCLE SCROOGE #40, 1963), "FOR OLD DIME'S SAKE" (UNCLE SCROOGE #43, 1963)

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One of the more interesting characters introduced in Carl Barks's UNCLE SCROOGE stories was the sorceress Magica De Spell. In this ess...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

PATTERNS AND POTENTIALITIES PT. 2

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In Part 1 , I attempted to show how the didactic and mythopoeic potentialities could be in conflict within the scope of one particular short...
Monday, February 17, 2020

"SNAP BACK" VS. "LOST CHANCE"

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I posted this today on CHFB: ________________ I recently came across a link to a Gail Simone twitter-thread that addresse...

THE READING RHEUM: THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH (1965)

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Despite sporting a great title, and having earned a Nebula nomination back in the day, THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH is definitely w...

CATEGORIES OF STRUCTURAL LENGTH PT. 3

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After formulating my distinctions of the longest structural forms in Part 1 -- the compact novel and the episodic novel-- I should point out...
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