Perhaps that is ignorant of me, but at points the book does get swept up in hyperbole.īut it’s never boring, and I liked the autobiographical parts as much as the overview of the history of comic books. This is especially apparent when he starts talking about his transcendent experiences in different levels of consciousness and for this mere mortal I felt like saying ‘put the pen down and go out for some fresh air’. This is a virtue in most places, but at some points I did find myself raising my eyebrows and feeling that he did go a bit too in-depth, and sees reading and writing comics as a revalatory experience, when I think it loses sight of the consumer aspect of the business. To him comic books aren’t simply a form of entertainment but a way to bridge the gap between the worlds of reality and fiction, to blur them until we can gaze past the veil of truth and look back onto a mirror of beautiful lies. Morrison’s passion for superheroes and their place in the world gives the book an enthralling tone and it’s easy to get caught up in his worship of the medium and the characters it has given us. It offers a comprehensives history and analysis of comics over the past 70 or so years, getting so detailed as to analysing individual panels in early comics. This books goes into so much depth about comics is really quite astounding. It’s mostly an overview of the development of comics and their ties to mythology and spiritual truths, but it’s also partly an autobiography as Morrison talks about his own journey from a small town in Scotland to writing some of the biggest selling comics in the world. Supergods is a work of non-fiction by successful comics writer Grant Morrison.

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