Supergods : what masked vigilantes, miraculous mutants, and a sun god from Smallville can teach us about being human
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Morrison draws on history, art, mythology, and his own astonishing journeys through this alternate universe as a comic book writer to provide the first true chronicle of the superhero. Full description
Table of Contents:
- The sun god and The dark knight
- Lightning's childl
- The superwarrior and the Amazon princess
- The explosion and the extinction
- Superman on the couch
- Chemicals and lightening
- 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.