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Month: May 2017

Fairy Stories for a Wizarding World: J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard

May 26, 2017 ~ matthewkirshenblatt ~ Leave a comment

A little while ago, I got into a rant about Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume Three: Century, or more specifically its final chapter beat “2009.” I understand the creative…

Source: Fairy Stories for a Wizarding World: J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Mythic World Rewriting: Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’ Providence

May 16, 2017 ~ matthewkirshenblatt ~ Leave a comment

“All countries and all cultures, in the first few centuries that follow their inception, seem to naturally produce their individual supernatural mythologies and webs of folkloric belief. This much we can deduce by looking at…

Source: Mythic World Rewriting: Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’ Providence

Samurai Jack: Can He Go Back?

May 11, 2017 ~ matthewkirshenblatt ~ Leave a comment

It’s always a challenge writing about a series in progress, especially when you know that by the time your article comes out, it may already be a fairly moot point or some development occurs that…

Source: Samurai Jack: Can He Go Back?

The Framework in Agents of HYDRA

May 2, 2017 ~ matthewkirshenblatt ~ Leave a comment

Where do we even begin? This is yet another article that I hadn’t been planning. Well, I’m sorry: that is just an alternative fact. You see, I had been thinking of writing about this arc…

Source: The Framework in Agents of HYDRA

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