It was a very logical approach to superhumans.

I really liked Alan Moore’s Marvelman, which was the first of these types of stories to really make an impact. I enjoyed it up to a point and then grew very rapidly disenchanted with it. It was a very creative period, so it’s not like the Dark Ages in history when all the lights went out and there were a few monks scribbling for 500 years. Superheroes were psychopaths, villains became more excessive. Creators began to ask themselves difficult questions about sexuality, about politics, about why did what they did and what they stood for. That’s kind of the name that’s been used by comic historians, I went along with it because it fit nicely into that structure with the ages. Why call the third section, the eighties to early nineties, the Dark Ages? You split the book into four sections: the Golden Age, Silver Age, the Dark Age, and the Renaissance. It was mostly about a kind of personal take on these things. Here’s a human story in the middle of all this.” And most of my research was done from stuff that I had on the bookshelf. I really just wanted to do it as, “Here’s someone who’s absolutely immersed in this stuff. I didn’t want to do that type of book because there had been so many good academic books on the subject.

They literally saved me from the horror of the atom bomb.ĭid you do a lot of research for the book? Superman can withstand an atom bomb explosion. Then I discovered superhero comics and realized that here was an idea that was bigger than the bomb. My parents were anti-nuclear activists, so the bomb was a big frightening specter in our household. What is it about superheroes that fascinates you? Vulture spoke with Grant about the future of his industry, his obsession with Batman, and his gripe with the X-Men. In September, he’ll helm DC Comics’ relaunch of that first and most famous of superheroes, Superman, in Action Comics. This week he released Supergods, a 400-page meditation on superheroes and what they tell us about ourselves. Soaring into battle for truth and justice.Since the eighties, Grant Morrison has been a titanic figure in comics, working on both creator-owned titles such as The Invisibles, Zenith, and We3, and more familiar industry icons like Superman, Batman, and the X-Men.

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