![]() ![]() ![]() Its mission is to safeguard India and to usher in a new golden age for the country. The superbeing that opens the series is created by India. I think it was Larry Niven who wrote the “disproving God” article where he suggested that a God would have to know all possible time paths in order to exist, and that that knowledge is impossible, so no god could exist. A time-displaced being has “tactical sanity,” which means that it can see all possible branching paths in science. ![]() The supers are absolutely opaque to the narrator character and the reader.Ģ. That is a much more interesting story, and frankly more realistic. They were the product of cold calculation, of intent and ethics gone awry. They were not the daughters and sons of watchmakers. Manhattan in Watchmen–the supers in Ellis’ series do not have complex backstories. ![]() It reads like a direct response to internal monologue and history that we get from Dr. Ellis doesn’t spend a lot of time delving into the superhuman mind. I’m just going to go over five quick points about the five issue series. It was over the top, high concept stuff, which Ellis excels at. If you want the short version, I liked it. It has been that kind of year.Īnyway, I read Warren Ellis’ Supergodthis past weekend. I have books about feminism and science fiction to read, as well as some fairy tales. ![]()
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