Warren Ellis' Supergod #1-5 (of 5) Complete

It took more than a year, but Warren Ellis' 5-issue miniseries is finally complete with the release of its 5th and final issue last December 2, 2010. The conclusion is one long monologue delivered by Simon Reddin, a British scientist who worked on their post-human program and it relies so much on following through with ideas set up in the previous issues, with Garrie Gastonny ever-consistent with his stunning artwork. acts as the third book in a loose, thematic trilogy of comics about post-humanity done by Ellis for Avatar, following up on and . It stands as the most thought-provoking and challenging of the three books, concerned with tackling an almost impossible idea: how does something not human think and act? Ellis succeeds in laying out some theories and providing a hint of where to go for future writers. may not work completely as a story, but as an argument, a theory for post-human stories, it’s a brilliant piece of work. This conclusion is depressing and challenging and frustrating and disturbing. It’s the sort of comic that sticks with you and changes the way you think about superhero comics. Issues #1-4 are all HQ Minutemen scans while issue #5 is an independent one by an anonymous scanner, with the individual jpeg images saved at very low compression ratios--almost lossless, in fact.

SUPERGOD: praying to be saved by a man who can fly will get you killed. From the creator of THE AUTHORITY and PLANETARY comes the craziest and most horrifying superhero comic you've ever read! In the world of SUPERGOD, superhumans are the ultimate expression of the Messiah complex, and scientists can build Messiahs who will fly down from the skies to save the world. No-one thought about how they'd do it -- or even if they'd want to. So begins the apocalyptic tomorrow of SUPERGOD -- the story of how supermen killed us all and ended the world just because we wanted to be rescued by human-shaped things from beyond Science itself! Take every superhero comic ever published, shove them into a nuclear-powered blender, soak it in bad vodka and set the whole thing alight -- and SUPERGOD will crawl out and eat your brain! This five issue color series is drawn by Garrie Gastony with colors by Digikore. -- Discover how the world ends! From the creator of Black Summer and No Hero comes the craziest, nastiest, most soulless and criminal superhero comic of the year! Prepare to crap out your brains through your eyes as the most insane and terrifying superhumans ever conceived go into battle for no other reason than that they don’t really like the look of each other and think the planet would look better if it was strewed with their enemies’ intestines! SUPERGOD ends with an apocalypse undreamed of! This is what asking to be saved by men who can fly would look like. Take every superhero comic ever published, shove them into a nuclear-powered blender, soak it in bad vodka and set the whole thing alight — and SUPERGOD will crawl out and eat your brain! This five issue color series is drawn by Garrie Gastonny with colors by Digikore. --

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