Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us about Being Human - Grant Morrison

For Morrison, one of the most acclaimed writers in the world of comics, heroes are powerful archetypes who reflect and predict the course of human existence. He draws on art, archetypes, and his own astonishing journeys to provide the first true history of the superhero. \n \nNATIONAL BESTSELLER - What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human \n \n 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. \n \nNow with a new Afterword \n\n