Supergods opens with a dying man telling his story as he sits on the banks of the Thames, which is choked with corpses, as behind him London burns. Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny give us what might be the most horrific superhero story ever in Supergods! What if there was a different kind of arms race going on between the various countries of the world where, instead of nuclear weapons, they all built super-humans? And what would happen once these super-humans charged with saving the world didn't feel like saving the world and, because of their god-like powers, could do whatever they really wanted to do instead? Ellis explores an apocalyptic "be careful what you wish for" scenario where a super-human version of the Indian god Krishna, destroys 90% of India's population, realising that to save the country, it'd have to kill most of the human population! Each country's "supergod" is a weird, malformed thing that doesn't do what its creators want it to. Britain's god makes itself invulnerable by making everyone near it fall in love with and worship it. Russia's god becomes a frenzied killing machine. And America? They make the worst one of all. If you want to read a super-dark superhero story where billions die, Supergods is for you. Senseless mass carnage: the perfect antidote to Sleepless in Seattle! * To show I'm not a total cynic, if you are in the mood for love, I'm going to recommend the Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O'Malley and Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon for some beautiful lovey-dovey, entertaining comics. So what are your favourite anti-Valentine's comics? Do you celebrate the holiday? Let me know in the comments below, follow me on Twitter, @NoelThorne, and whatever you wind up doing, have a fun day!
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Supergods opens with a dying man telling his story as he sits on the banks of the Thames, which is choked with corpses, as behind him London burns. Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny give us what might be the most horrific superhero story ever in Supergods! What if there was a different kind of arms race going on between the various countries of the world where, instead of nuclear weapons, they all built super-humans? And what would happen once these super-humans charged with saving the world didn't feel like saving the world and, because of their god-like powers, could do whatever they really wanted to do instead? Ellis explores an apocalyptic "be careful what you wish for" scenario where a super-human version of the Indian god Krishna, destroys 90% of India's population, realising that to save the country, it'd have to kill most of the human population! Each country's "supergod" is a weird, malformed thing that doesn't do what its creators want it to. Britain's god makes itself invulnerable by making everyone near it fall in love with and worship it. Russia's god becomes a frenzied killing machine. And America? They make the worst one of all. If you want to read a super-dark superhero story where billions die, Supergods is for you. Senseless mass carnage: the perfect antidote to Sleepless in Seattle! * To show I'm not a total cynic, if you are in the mood for love, I'm going to recommend the Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O'Malley and Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon for some beautiful lovey-dovey, entertaining comics. So what are your favourite anti-Valentine's comics? Do you celebrate the holiday? Let me know in the comments below, follow me on Twitter, @NoelThorne, and whatever you wind up doing, have a fun day!