

But what are they trying to tell us?įor Grant Morrison, arguably the greatest of contemporary chroniclers of the “superworld,” these heroes are powerful archetypes whose ongoing, decades-spanning story arcs reflect and predict the course of human Through them we tell the story of ourselves, our troubled history, and our starry aspirations. In less than a century, they’ve gone from not existing at all to being everywhere we on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and dreams. In a matter of years, the skies of the imaginary world were filled with strange mutants, aliens, and Batman, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and the X-Men-the list of names as familiar as our own. 1 in 1938, introduced the world to something both unprecedented and Superman, a caped god for the modern age. The first superhero comic ever published, Action Comics no. From one of the most acclaimed and profound writers in the world of comics comes a thrilling and provocative exploration of humankind’s great modern the superhero
