Supergods
What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
by Grant Morrison
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Pub Date Jun 26 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Random House Publishing Group | Random House
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men—the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and in our dreams. But what are they trying to tell us? For Grant Morrison, one of the most acclaimed writers in the world of comics, these heroes are powerful archetypes who reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them we tell the story of ourselves. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Morrison draws on art, archetypes, and their own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of our great modern myth: the superhero.
Now with a new Afterword
Advance Praise
Praise
"Seventy years of superhero history
with erudite analysis and autobiography thrown in-an account of what it's like
to plunge your brain into these fictional universes for decades, refusing to
come up for air."-Rolling Stone
"Morrison writes with such flair, humor and insight that Supergods may
be the season's most winning exploration of pop culture and the creative
process."-San Francisco Chronicle
"A personal and erudite history of the medium by one of its most intelligent
and articulate practitioners . . . Morrison lays out the history of comics with
infectious passion and amusement."-Financial Times
"A blast, a pure hit of hero worship and deep understanding of comics as mind
expansion . . . It's hard not to be swept up in [Morrison's] vision."-Austin
American-Statesman
"The perfect textbook for fanboys and the mainstream alike."-USA Today
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780812981384 |
| PRICE | $19.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 480 |
