WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Supergods

4 Comments | Posted: July 31st, 2011 | Filed under: What I've Been Reading | Tags:


Grant Morrison’s book on superheroes and their place in our culture is:

  1. Schizophrenic, sometimes swinging from memoir to analysis in the space of a paragraph.
  2. Bereft of any footnotes that would help solidify some of his more dubious points.
  3. Full of his usual crazy-man jibber-jabber about his hallucinogenetic* past, further fueling the sort of people who like to say “he’s on drugs” when they can’t offer up any real analysis of his works.
  4. Utterly addictive reading. It could have been twice as long and I’d have enjoyed it five times as much.

*You can use that one. It’s on me.

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4 Comments on “WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Supergods”

  1. 1 Bob Holt said at 6:06 pm on August 1st, 2011:

    I’m in the middle of the book. I would read a 1000-page Morrison bio of Jack Kirby tomorrow.

  2. 2 Cole Moore Odell said at 12:41 pm on August 2nd, 2011:

    Not sure about a bio, but 500 pages of Morrison and Chris Sims discussing Kirby’s comics, followed by 500 pages of Morrison and Steve Bissette talking about Kirby’s treatment by Marvel, and we’re talking a book.

  3. 3 Frowny said at 1:14 pm on August 2nd, 2011:

    I just got past the part where he goes into detail about his experiences in India, and this was all I could think of:

    http://www.agreeablecomics.com/therack/?p=45

    Was this pure conjecture, or has he talked about this in the past?

  4. 4 Kevin Church said at 11:44 am on August 3rd, 2011:

    Was this pure conjecture, or has he talked about this in the past?

    The former, I believe. I don’t ever recall reading him discussing it before I wrote that, but you know. Memory like a sieve.