In January, Griffin, Justin, Clint, and Travis McElroy ditched the swords and sorcery story they'd been playing out since 2014 and started hunting bigfoots and other cryptids in a series called Amnesty.
Indeed, the early issues were almost underwater sword-and-sorcery stories.
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE After the blood-ridden drama of "Romeo and Juliet," A.B.T. moves on to the more ethereal world of "Swan Lake," populated with creatures enslaved by sorcery, its story line defined by promises made and too soon broken.
Whereas in films, and in fiction in general, a particularly common associations has long been that between artificial generation or manipulation of living organisms and metaphors of sorcery, myths, centuries-old stories or legends, especially recent films tend to refer to modern bio-technologies to underpin their ideas of artificial life.
But between the dance of the female demons, "who wear no clothes to speak of," and Miss Milly Cavendish, who "was encored in her song of 'The Naughty Men,'" the show, a "story of sorcery, demonism and wickedness generally," amounted to "decidedly the event of this spectacular age".
They drink hot whisky and tell stories of "island sorcery".
He was surely less interested in simplistic morals than in how these stories use the sorcery of words to shock us into thinking about the terrible, complicated things that can happen before "happily ever after".
Men were enslaved by her teasing sorcery, her Surrealist word games, the ribald stories she told, the scribbling of poems on dinner napkins.
In her new play, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, best known for the suffragette drama Her Naked Skin, conjures her own theatrical sorcery out of a real-life English story of the fear of the female other.
To read them again after a quarter-century or so is to recognize their strengths: fresh, vivid writing with a hint of suppressed sorcery, and a masterly tension and control of story (despite the exaggerated length of "The Magus").
