![]() ![]() One of the defining moments of the series occurs when the narrator, under the influence of sherry and drugs, unwisely confronts the British experiment and demands “What are you for?” The monologue is a bit heavy-handed, but it perfectly exemplifies the attitude that most of the gods have towards their makers. ( Above: Krishna, the Indian experiment.) SUPERGOD will crawl out and eat your brain.” Take every superhero comic ever published, shove them into a nuclear-powered blender, soak it in bad vodka and set the whole thing alight. ![]() This is what asking to be saved by men who can fly would look like. How best to describe this series? The official description from Avatar Press comes close: “South-east Asia is on fire, an artificial angel whose brain is a faulty radio to God has been loosed on the world, something unimaginable is rising in China, attempts to reactivate America’s superhuman in his underground fake childhood town are not going well … This is what a superhuman arms race would look like. It took 3 months for my five-set collection of Warren Ellis’ SUPERGOD to make it to my mailbox, and it was worth every second of of the 90 minutes it took to read all of them. ![]()
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