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THE COMICS CLASSROOM: The Foundation of Heroes, Part 1

THE COMICS CLASSROOM: The Foundation of Heroes, Part 1

Within the American comic-book origins that started with Siegel, Shuster, Kirby, Lee, and Goodman, the ability of their costumed heroes to combat the forces of crime was paramount. The primal element of the superhero’s makeup was his ability (supernaturally or normally) to combat elements within a city or a nation that lead to the emotional

The Comic Classroom: Re-Birth Part 3

What does it mean to live? What does it mean to die? These two questions are, quite possibly, the penultimate conundrum that bedevils mankind. To answer these questions, we have come to understand the universe through the mechanisms and methodologies of religion. However, few religions offer an identical meaning to those two important questions. While

The Comics Classroom: Practitioners of the Bizarre — Part 2

Few names in the field of magic and mysticism perhaps send as many shivers up the spine as Merlin. As a literary figure, Merlin has a few possible points of textual origin, chiefly that of Myrddin Emrys (although this spelling as multiple variations). Looking back on Myrddin, before Monmouth or de Troyes got to him,

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