Supergods by Grant Morrison
Supergods by Grant Morrison Published by Spiegel & Grau; Reprint edition (June 26, 2012 ) Genre: Non-fiction, comics Pages:480 My Rating: ★★★☆☆ 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 his own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of our great modern myth: the superhero. To start things off here at Literally Literary it would be befitting to post a book review. This is actually a revamp of a review I did last Marc...