| Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us about Being Human Contributor(s): Morrison, Grant (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812981383 ISBN-13: 9780812981384 Publisher: Random House OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 741.535 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 5.22" W x 8.01" (0.79 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being HumanSuperman, 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 his 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 |