Archetypes

The best thing about the superhero genre, probably, is its creation or reenvisioning of archetypes for modern-day storytelling, allegory, and myth-building. And for great cartoons, too.

There have always been archetypes, and they have always been useful to a culture -- for their work, for their play, and for their flat-out communication. Now I'm not going to go all Jungian (a word that usually evokes annoyed eye-rolls from those who knows what it means and annoyed blank stares from those who don't), but...

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