| Supergod | |
|---|---|
 Supergod issue 1 (November 2009) | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Avatar Press |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | October 2009 – 2010 |
| No. of issues | 5 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Warren Ellis Garrie Gastonny |
| Written by | Warren Ellis |
| Artist(s) | Garrie Gastonny |
| Editor(s) | William A. Christensen |
| Collected editions | |
| Supergod | ISBN 1-59291-099-8 |
Supergod is a 5-issue comic book limited series created by Warren Ellis, published by Avatar Press, with art by Garrie Gastonny. Issue 1 was released in November 2009.
In an essay written at the time of publication, Warren Ellis said:
Supergod is the story of what an actual superhuman arms race might be like. It’s a simple thing to imagine. Humans have been fashioning their own gods with their own hands since the dawn of our time on Earth. We can’t help ourselves. Fertility figures brazen idols, vast chalk etchings, carvings, myths and legends, science fiction writers generating science fiction religions from whole cloth. It’s not such a great leap to conceive of the builders of nuclear weapons and particle accelerators turning their attention to the oldest of human pursuits. Dress it up as superhuman defense, as discovering the limits of the human body, as transhumanism and posthumanism.[1]
Supergod is regarded as the third and final series in Ellis' Avatar Press-published "Superhuman Trilogy" dealing with the creation of superheroes, preceded by Black Summer and No Hero. Prior to Supergod's release, Warren Ellis said in an interview that, "Black Summer was about superhumans who were too human. No Hero was about superhumans who were inhuman. Supergod is about superhumans who are no longer human at all, but something else. The third leg of a thematic trilogy if you like."[2]
- ^ [1] Archived 2010-02-18 at the Wayback Machine Avatar Press official webpage
- ^ "Supergod". avatarpress.com. 26 August 2009.