Saturday, July 30, 2022

MYTHCOMICS: "REMEMBRANCE" (RUROUNI KENSHIN, WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP, 1994)

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In this essay I provided a writeup of the circumstances under which former "samurai assassin" Kenshin Himura came to reside in a ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

ONCE AND FUTURE STATURE (AND CHARISMA)

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 I confess that my fascination with categorization sometimes gets the better of me. This is in no way a rejection of my critical methodology...
Monday, July 25, 2022

NEAR MYTHS: UNDER THE RED HOOD (2005), RED HOOD THE LOST DAYS (2010)

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Jason Todd, the second Robin, never did anything noteworthy in the first phase of his career until he died-- and even then, his death didn...
Friday, July 22, 2022

THREE STRIKES FOR BAD BOOKS

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This may be the shortest book review I'll ever post, because it's actually a review of the reasons I will NOT read the book. I knew ...

MYTHCOMICS: BIRTH OF THE DEMON (1992)

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 I posted two essays about Denny O'Neil the week after he passed in 2020. One was a mythcomics appreciation of one of his QUESTION stori...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

THE MASTER THREAD OF DISNEY'S "STAR WARS"

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If one wanted a cogent, concise summation of the many failings of the Disney STAR WARS trilogy from 2015 to 2019, I for one would recommend ...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

NULL-MYTHS: SPIDER-MAN * THE HULK AT THE WINTER OLYMPICS (1980)

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 Since I just reviewed CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS, I took a quick first-time look at the Marvel Treasury Edition that preceded it, #25, in which S...