He’s sitting on the banks of the Thames in London, just outside the Houses of Parliament. The story is narrated by a British scientist, himself involved in the British superman program, as he discusses the situation over the phone with an American counterpart. Ellis envisions a sort of super-powered arms race, where each of the world’s major economic powers has spent the last 20 years experimenting with their own versions of Superman. In Ellis’s vision, superheroes wouldn’t appear in isolation, but come about as government sponsored weapons of mass destruction. By removing most of the things that are totally ridiculous and unquestionably stupid about them, then processing what’s left through some kind of thought experiment about how such unnatural creatures might come about, he’s ended up with Supergods. In this book, for example, he’s taken superheroes. Warren Ellis is an expert at taking sci-fi staples and turning them into something a bit more spectacular and a lot less daft.
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