Supergods6/4/2023 In years before the onset of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, Great Britain secretly launches an experimental rocket based on Wernher von Braun's notes with a crew of three astronauts to observe the effects of outer space on the human body. Reddin tells his story to "Tommy," an American counterpart taking refuge in a bunker, in order to provide an oral history of the events that led to the end of the world. Supergod is narrated from the point of view of Simon Reddin, a British scientist who sits in the ruins of post-apocalyptic London, waiting to die. Dress it up as superhuman defense, as discovering the limits of the human body, as transhumanism and posthumanism. 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. Fertility figures brazen idols, vast chalk etchings, carvings, myths and legends, science fiction writers generating science fiction religions from whole cloth. Humans have been fashioning their own gods with their own hands since the dawn of our time on Earth. Supergod is the story of what an actual superhuman arms race might be like. In an essay written at the time of publication, Warren Ellis said: Supergod is a 5-issue comic book limited series created by Warren Ellis, published by Avatar Press, with art by Garrie Gastonny.
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