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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men—the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and in…

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Not a novel, but Supergods is one of the most intriguing books about the superhero as a concept that I’ve ever read. In Supergods, the always thought-provoking Grant Morrison digs into what superheroes actually are by picking apart archetypes, delving into the history of the medium, and exploring their place as a sort of modern mythology. Having written countless superhero comics, including some of the most surreal such stories ever to exist, Morrison is in a unique position to dissect the genre in a way that leaves you thinking about what superheroes mean and why they matter. It's the kind…

This is a non-fiction book, so you may think that it’s odd to include it here, but you’d be missing out if you skipped this. To describe Grant Morrison as a comics legend is barely scratching the surface. Superman, Batman, the X-Men, all of these characters and more have had some of their most definitive stories written by Morrison, so they truly know how superheroes operate. One part memoir, one part love letter to the superhero genre, this is a book that will keep you glued to the page and wishing for more by the end.

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