Into the Metaverse: Jungian Psychology, Esoteric Tarot, and Moral Philosophy in Persona 5
From the Fool’s Journey through the Major Arcana to Dante’s ascent up Mount Purgatory
The Arcs of Characters and Human History in Avengers: Endgame
The character arcs of Marvel’s Big three parallel prominent views regarding the shape of history.
The Secret Origin(s) of the Joker
Do you want to know how he got those scars?
J.R.R. Tolkien and History as the “Long Defeat”
“I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains… glimpses of final victory”
“Christ and Culture” and Daredevil
Daredevil’s arc explores the paradigms for societal engagement by Christians laid out by Niebuhr in his classic tome
Lex Luthor and Lolita
Far from being a simple slugfest between gaudily garbed do-gooders, Snyder has created a true work of cinema that continues to reward careful rewatching
“Lo, I teach You the Superman”: The Philosophy of Grant Morrison
On the Relation of Metafiction to Metaphysics in Sequential Art
“As Above, So Below”: The Esoteric Philosophy of Alan Moore
“‘The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind”
The Moral Philosophy of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War
How Thanos’ disagrees with Steve Roger’s mantra “We don’t trade lives”
The Dialectic of Killmonger, Wakanda, and T’Challa in Black Panther
On the competing ideologies of Killmonger and Wakanda in Black Panther and their ultimate synthesis in T’Challa
