Looking back, looking forward

[newnumber6]

Another Prisoners of Gravity ep, this time on Myths and Archetypes in comic books and speculative fiction.

Part 1: Charles deLint on including and playing with mythological material, and using obscure mythological names, Robert Sawyer on Golden Fleece and including/adapting certain themes from Greek mythology, Walt Simonson on Thor in Marvel comics, Chris Claremont on superheroes as modern mythology
Part 2: Neil Gaiman on Superman, Dave McKean and Grant Morrison (WITH HAIR!!) on Arkham Asylum and Batman, Clive Barker on whether there's a 'collective unconscious' of horror, Robert Hadji,
'horror expert', on Frankenstein's Monster, Matt Wagner on Grendel (the comic series)
Part 3: Charles deLint on Beowulf, and where fantasy authors get their ideas, Guy Gabriel Kay on Joseph Campbell's "Hero of a Thousand Faces", Candas Jane Dorsey on Star Trek as Modern Myth, Chris Claremont again on how the stories of the past/today become the myths of today/tomorrow (Brother Power: The Geek reference!).

In other news, as everyone probably already knows, scans_daily was shut down. There's a new one over at InsaneJournal, where I'll be (had to create an account, but that also means I can use lots more icons, since you get 100 free there), and also a noscans_daily here, but, I can't see myself following that one. End of an era, still.

Comments

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

I miss scans_daily. I wasn't a member but it was a nice place to catch up on comic news and get your daily dose of crack. It seems a bit weird that it would close down now. People have been posting scans there for ages. And it wasn't like members were claiming the scans as their own. Sigh, the intricacies of the internet.

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

You should be at noscans_daily, it's been interesting. I'm talking about comics again instead of just comics, which is fun.

See you on Scans_Daily 2.0 anyway.