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Far beyond deconstruction, it exposes, challenges, invigorates and detonates everything we know about this modern mythology. San francisco chronicle a personal and erudite history of the medium by one of its most intelligent and articulate practitioners. On the eve of bruce waynes return to gotham city, the new batman and robin team that battled crime during his abse. What masked vigilantes, miraculous mutants, and a sun god from smallville can teach us about being human by grant. Grant morrison morrison draws on history, art, mythology, and his own astonishing journeys through this alternate universe as a comic book writer to provide the first true chronicle of the superhero. Allegheny county public libraries are closed to the public, but the digital library is open.
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