New Supergods cover at DC's Source blog

Post date: Apr 29, 2011 7:12:0 AM

The cover for the American version of Grant Morrison's forthcoming Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero was revealed on DC's Source blog last night. Supergods, a 484 page hardcover, is due to be published 7th July 2011 in the UK and 19th July 2011 in the USA.

With art taken from Frank Quietly and Jamie Grant's iconic All Star Superman origin sequence , it seems US publsher Spiegel & Grau isn't going for quite the same generic mass market appeal as the previously seen cover from UK publisher Jonathan Cape. I like the American one better though...

Buy the US version here or Buy the UK version here. From the official press release -

"Supergods is your opportunity to join one of the great figures of modern comics on a mind-bending journey into the world of the superheroes.

In 1938, the first superhero comic ever published, Action Comics #1, introduced the world to something both unprecedented and profoundly familiar: Superman, a caped god for the modern age. In a matter of years, the skies of the imaginary world were filled with strange mutants, aliens, and vigilantes: Batman, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four, Captain Marvel, Iron Man, and the X-Men – the list of names is as familiar as our own. In less than a century they’ve gone from not existing at all to being everywhere we look: on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and dreams. But why?

For Grant Morrison, possibly the greatest of contemporary superhero storytellers, these heroes are not simply characters but powerful archetypes whose ongoing, decades-spanning story arcs reflect and predict the course of human existence: through them, we tell the story of ourselves. In this exhilarating book, Morrison draws on history, art, mythology, and his own astonishing journeys through this alternate universe to provide the first true chronicle of the superhero – why they matter, why they will always be with us, and what they tell us about who we are."