Heroically celebrating the very best that the human spirit has to offer
ERUDITE, mischievous, obsessed with complex structures and unafraid to challenge readers, Glasgow’s Grant Morrison is essentially the James Joyce of contemporary comics writers (to, say, Neil Gaiman’s Oscar Wilde or Alan Moore’s Patrick Kavanagh). While you won’t find him on any Booker lists, there’s no denying that Morrison is one of the best-selling, hardest working, and inventive authors on these islands. He’s also the most divisive.
Supergods, his first substantial work of prose, is Morrison’s attempt to explain the enduring appeal of the comic book and its protagonists, characters conceived as “unstoppable warriors on behalf of the best that the human spirit has to offer”. But Supergods is more than just a popular history of the form. Though Morrison’s close readings reveal much, the book is most alive in an autobiographical strand which develops in tandem with his surface analysis: the journey from teenage fanboy to the most successful superhero writer of recent times. The relationship Morrison has enjoyed with the genre has been unrivalled and transformative.
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