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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

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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 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 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 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 Praise for SUPERGODS Grant Morrison is the antimatter to the often mundane world of comics - SUPERGODS is the finely tuned death-ray. Far beyond deconstruction, it exposes, challenges, invigorates and detonates everything we know about this modern mythology. SUPERGODS gives meaning to the fictional worlds we create and live within and helps us make sense of the madness within ourselves through the four-color world of the super hero. --Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance and author of The Umbrella Academy. Excellent ... engrossing ... Morrison is a skilled word magician, seeking creativity in a cosmological dimension. --Publishers Weekly Morrison is ideally suited to the task of chronicling the glorious rise, fall, rise, fall and rise again of comic-book superheroes. As thorough an account of the superhero phenomenon as readers are likely to find, filled with unexpected insights and savvy pop-psych analysis. Those who dare enter will find the prose e

Praise for SUPERGODS <br> Grant Morrison is the antimatter to the often mundane world of comics - SUPERGODS is the finely tuned death-ray. Far beyond deconstruction, it exposes, challenges, invigorates and detonates everything we know about this modern mythology. SUPERGODS gives meaning to the fictional worlds we create and live within and helps us make sense of the madness within ourselves through the four-color world of the super hero. --Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance and author of The Umbrella Academy. <br> Excellent ... engrossing ... Morrison is a skilled word magician, seeking creativity in a cosmological dimension. --Publishers Weekly <br> Morrison is ideally suited to the task of chronicling the glorious rise, fall, rise, fall and rise again of comic-book superheroes. As thorough an account of the superhero phenomenon as readers are likely to find, filled with unexpected insights and savvy pop-psych analysis. Those who dare enter will find the prose e

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

<p> 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 <br> <br> 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 <br> <br> 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 <br> <br> 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 <br> <br> The perfect textbook for fanboys and the mainstream alike. -- USA Today

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Grant Morrison is best known for their innovative work on comics from the graphic novel Batman: Arkham Asylum to acclaimed runs on Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the X-Men, as well as their subversive creator-owned titles such as The Invisibles, Seaguy, The Filth and WE3. In television, they have developed adaptations of their comic series Happy! for Syfy and Netflix and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World for Peacock. In addition, Grant is an award-winning playwright, a musician, occult practitioner and stray cat magnet. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods. Morrison was awarded an MBE for services to film and literature. 

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