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2. Supergods
Grant Morrison is one of the most revolutionary comic book writers of all time, and also one of the most unique.
His world views are deeply built around the ideas of magic and metafiction. And Supergods is a book written about the nature of superheroes set in exactly that world view. The book summarizes long stretches of comic book history from Morrison’s strange and fascinating perspective.
What do comic books say about us? What do our heroes have in common with those of the ancient Greeks or Romans? Morrison looks at these things, at first from a fan and outsider’s perspective. Then, once he catches up to the point at which his own career started, as an insider and professional. It becomes part autobiography and part philosophical treatise on the medium. But it’s all engaging and engrossing and fascinating to its very core.
This is easily one of my favorite books on this list. It’s just so good, you can’t put it down.
