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		<title>“The Old Bonds Between Man and Nature Have Been Broken”: Environmentalism, Mysticism, and Folk Horror in The Knights of Pendragon, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Gawain is victorious in it, Thomas’s vision also implies his own defeat at Captain Britain’s hands: after Gawain has killed Lancelot, he lifts the visor of his helmet to see the face of the&#8230; <a href="http://sequart.org/magazine/70909/environmentalism-mysticism-folk-horror-knights-of-pendragon-part-3/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>“The Old Bonds Between Man and Nature Have Been Broken”: Environmentalism, Mysticism, and Folk Horror in The Knights of Pendragon, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://sequart.org/magazine/70898/environmentalism-mysticism-folk-horror-knights-of-pendragon-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presence of UNIT analogues W.H.O. in a rural location, investigating an anomaly connected to the land, brings to mind the folk horror-themed episodes of Doctor Who referred to by Scovell and mentioned above; however,&#8230; <a href="http://sequart.org/magazine/70898/environmentalism-mysticism-folk-horror-knights-of-pendragon-part-2/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>“The Old Bonds Between Man and Nature Have Been Broken”: Environmentalism, Mysticism, and Folk Horror in The Knights of Pendragon, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://sequart.org/magazine/70881/environmentalism-mysticism-folk-horror-knights-of-pendragon-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://sequart.org/magazine/70881/environmentalism-mysticism-folk-horror-knights-of-pendragon-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the title of the Marvel UK comic book series The Knights of Pendragon (1990-1993; Pendragon hereafter) refers to a group of superheroes, the main protagonist of its first six issues (July-Dec, 1990) is very&#8230; <a href="http://sequart.org/magazine/70881/environmentalism-mysticism-folk-horror-knights-of-pendragon-part-1/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>“I won’t wear one of those damnfool spandex body-condom things. I don’t have the bust for it”: Superhero Costume in the WildStorm Comics of Warren Ellis, Part 3</title>
		<link>http://sequart.org/magazine/69977/superhero-costume-in-the-wildstorm-comics-of-warren-ellis-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 11:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[costumes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoff Klock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hellblazer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Constantine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miracleman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miracleman (a.k.a. Marvelman)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planetary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spider Jerusalem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wild Storm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transmetropolitan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="http://sequart.org/images/Jack-Carter-Planetary1-e1563882315129-150x150.jpg" alt="“I won’t wear one of those damnfool spandex body-condom things. I don’t have the bust for it”: Superhero Costume in the WildStorm Comics of Warren Ellis, Part 3" title="“I won’t wear one of those damnfool spandex body-condom things. I don’t have the bust for it”: Superhero Costume in the WildStorm Comics of Warren Ellis, Part 3" style="float:left;" />In How To Read Superhero Comics and Why, Klock applies Harold Bloom&#8217;s concept of the &#8216;agon&#8217; to Ellis&#8217;s treatment of superheroes in his work for WildStorm. For Bloom, poets can only escape the &#8216;anxiety of&#8230; <a href="http://sequart.org/magazine/69977/superhero-costume-in-the-wildstorm-comics-of-warren-ellis-part-3/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>“I won’t wear one of those damnfool spandex body-condom things. I don’t have the bust for it”: Superhero Costume in the WildStorm Comics of Warren Ellis, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://sequart.org/magazine/69784/superhero-costume-in-the-wildstorm-comics-of-warren-ellis-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2019 14:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jon Davis-Hunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planetary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stormwatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Ellis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="http://sequart.org/images/The-Wild-Storm-cover-1-150x150.jpg" alt="“I won’t wear one of those damnfool spandex body-condom things. I don’t have the bust for it”: Superhero Costume in the WildStorm Comics of Warren Ellis, Part 2" title="“I won’t wear one of those damnfool spandex body-condom things. I don’t have the bust for it”: Superhero Costume in the WildStorm Comics of Warren Ellis, Part 2" style="float:left;" />The Authority&#8217;s &#8216;sister&#8217; title, Planetary was also launched in 1999, following a preview story included in the WildStorm titles Gen-13 and C-23 in September of the previous year. Conceived as a series in which Ellis&#8230; <a href="http://sequart.org/magazine/69784/superhero-costume-in-the-wildstorm-comics-of-warren-ellis-part-2/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>“I won&#8217;t wear one of those damnfool spandex body-condom things. I don&#8217;t have the bust for it”: Superhero Costume in the WildStorm Comics of Warren Ellis, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://sequart.org/magazine/69632/superhero-costume-in-the-wildstorm-comics-of-warren-ellis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Hitch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Image Comics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Neary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="http://sequart.org/images/Stormwatch-volume-2-number-2-150x150.jpg" alt="“I won&#8217;t wear one of those damnfool spandex body-condom things. I don&#8217;t have the bust for it”: Superhero Costume in the WildStorm Comics of Warren Ellis, Part 1" title="“I won&#8217;t wear one of those damnfool spandex body-condom things. I don&#8217;t have the bust for it”: Superhero Costume in the WildStorm Comics of Warren Ellis, Part 1" style="float:left;" />The title of this essay comes from lines spoken by the character Jenny Sparks in Warren Ellis&#8217;s first issue as writer on the WildStorm title Stormwatch (#37, July 1996), after she is recruited to the&#8230; <a href="http://sequart.org/magazine/69632/superhero-costume-in-the-wildstorm-comics-of-warren-ellis/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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