Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781409040262 (1409040267)
Publish date: July 7th 2011
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Pop Culture,
Superheroes
In Supergods, rockstar graphic novelist Grant Morrison maps the story of the comic book superhero from its earliest beginnings to the present. Blending a lesson on caped crusader history with a memoir of his own life and career, all of this comes together as an incisive look at what superheroes mean...
This book started off as a basic history of comics. After fairly standard histories of the Golden and Silver Age, Grant Morrison started to describe comics through his own personal beliefs. I personally enjoyed this but I would not recommend this to someone not familiar with Morrison's work.
Part autobiography and part history of the superhero this is all literary flair. Grant Morrison writes an interesting and captivating non-fiction work with heavy elements of metafiction included. As a result the end product is a book which is as informative as it is entertaining. While most people w...
This book is a wealth of information and insight on the industry that even includes suggested further reading and a thorough indexing. The book inspired many interesting discussion points for my book club, but while I appreciate Grant Morrison's passion for comics, Grant Morrison's passion for Grant...
Morrison's book tends to stray off quite a bit, and while his treatment of superheroes and moments in comic history can be quite good, you find that much of your time in this 400 page discourse is spent on tangential discussions of pop history, biography, and trips to the fifth dimension (in what he...
11 years ago
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