NATIONAL BESTSELLER • What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human 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. Now with a new Afterword
Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
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Author: Morrison, Grant
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780812981384
Details:
Author: Morrison, Grant
Brand: Random House
Color: Black
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 480
Release Date: 26-06-2012
Part Number: part_0812981383
Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780812981384
