{"id":4052,"date":"2011-07-19T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2012-03-13T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T18:38:53","slug":"new-book-supergods-what-masked-vigilantes-miraculous-mutants-and-a-sun-god-from-smallville-can-teach-us-about-being-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/?p=4052","title":{"rendered":"new book &#8211; &#8216;Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400069122\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mymindonbooks-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=1400069122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Supergods.jpg\" alt=\"Supergods\" title=\"Supergods\" width=\"106\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4053\" style=\"float:right; margin:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of Amazon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBest-Books-of-the-Month%2Fb%3Fie%3DUTF8%26node%3D390919011%26ref_%3Dbhp_bb0309A_botm5_A%23&#038;tag=mymindonbooks-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\">Best Books of the Month for July<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400069122\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mymindonbooks-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=1400069122\">Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human<\/a> by Grant Morrison (Spiegel &amp; Grau) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004J4WL7S\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mymindonbooks-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B004J4WL7S\">(kindle ed.)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/022408996X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mymionbo-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=022408996X\">(amazon.co.uk)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/022408996X\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mymionbo-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=022408996X\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/supergods-uk.jpg\" alt=\"Supergods - UK ed.\" title=\"supergods-uk\" width=\"104\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4057\" style=\"float:left; margin:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Product description from the publisher:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From one of the most acclaimed and profound writers in the world of comics comes a thrilling and provocative exploration of humankind\u2019s great modern myth: the superhero.<\/p>\n<p>The first superhero comic ever published, <em>Action Comics no. 1<\/em> in 1938, introduced the world to something both unprecedented and timeless: 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, Iron Man, and the X-Men\u2014the list of names as familiar as our own. In less than a century, they\u2019ve gone from not existing at all to being everywhere we look: on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and dreams. But what are they trying to tell us?<\/p>\n<p>For Grant Morrison, arguably the greatest of contemporary chroniclers of the \u201csuperworld,\u201d these heroes are powerful archetypes whose ongoing, decades-spanning story arcs reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them we tell the story of ourselves, our troubled history, and our starry aspirations. 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