THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 Here I'll discuss an "alignment-inversion" like the one primarily addressed in Part 3 , where the main topic was the alterati...

Successful spinoffs, in contrast, usually take a path opposed to that of funneling charisma-characters into ensembles, where they have colle...

In DOWNGRADING (OR DEGRADING) ON A CURVE , I discussed the dynamics of the BEWITCHED teleseries. I stated that even though the characters of...

 A story with a subordinate ensemble, however, has a collection of characters who function in the same way as the characters in a superordin...

  What do you suppose is the use of a child without meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more important than a ...

 A major aspect of my crossover-theory is that of alignment; the principle that every literary cosmos, particularly with regard to serial co...

I wondered if a review of this 1982 curiosity-- put together when Jim Shooter still ruled Marvel Comics with an iron editorial hand-- might ...

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS GOLDEN AGE, written by James Robinson and penciled by Paul Smith, is an Elseworlds take on some of the many latte...

  Earlier I broke down the superordinate ensemble of DC THE NEW FRONTIER, separating off some characters from the others in the narrativ...

  I’ve established  here and elsewhere the way that a narrative’s centricity can be either concentrated upon...