Supergods - A Review
Post date: Jun 24, 2011 8:54:41 PM
At least three years since it was first announced, Grant Morrison's Supergods - Our World In The Age of the Superhero will finally tear open its shirt and burst on to the shelves of your High Street bookstore on July 19th. Part whistle-stop history of superhero comic books, part autobiography, Supergods is, at least here in the UK to judge by that frankly awful cover, cocked and locked on a thoroughly mass-market target; aimed squarely at the hipsters and cool kids who enjoyed Iron Man and The Dark Knight but wouldn't know, or care to know, the finer points of difference between a Don Heck panel and a Jim Aparo one. Its a welcome change from the usual 'inside baseball' tactic taken by most books about comic books and, given that summer 2011 might be superheroes last hurrah in the mainstream for a while after the 'lacklustre' box-office takings of the Thor and Green Lantern movies, a timely one. If ever there was an ideal window of opportunity to unleash this book on an unsuspecting public, its right NOW!
