Supergods : what masked vigilantes, miraculous mutants, and a sun god from Smallville can teach us about being human /

Supergods : what masked vigilantes, miraculous mutants, and a sun god from Smallville can teach us about being human / Grant Morrison.

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, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morrison, Grant (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2012]
Edition:Spiegel & Grau trade paperback edition.
Subjects:
Morrison, Grant.
Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History.
Superheroes > United States.
Superheroes > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • The sun god and the dark knight
  • Lightning's child
  • The superwarrior and the Amazon princess
  • The explosion and the extinction
  • Superman on the couch
  • Chemicals and lightning
  • The fab four and the birth of the marvelous
  • Superpop
  • Infinite Earths
  • Shamans of Madison Avenue
  • Brightest day, blackest night
  • Feared and misunderstood
  • Fearful symmetry
  • Zenith
  • The hateful dead
  • Image versus substance
  • King Mob: My life as a superhero
  • Man of muscle mystery
  • What's so funny about truth, justice, and the American way?
  • Respecting authority
  • Hollywood sniffs blood
  • Nu Marvel 9/11
  • The day evil won
  • Iron men and Incredibles
  • Over the event horizon
  • Star, legend, superhero, supergod?
  • Outro: 'Nuff said
  • Afterword to the paperback edition.

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