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Grant Morrison, Supergods

An Abundance of Ideas: Grant Morrison’s Supergods

by Sumanth Prabhaker
August 11, 2011

Rarely operating as agents of actual literature, the superheroes are instead portrayed as foils, projections, and countercultural symbols—ideas, the things that stand for things.

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