Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

<p><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br> <br> <b>What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human</b><br> <b> </b><br> 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. <i>But what are they trying to tell us? </i>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.<br> <br><b><b>Now with a new Afterword</b><br></b></p>