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. No-one thought about how they'd do it - or even if they'd want to. 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. Granted, he's still bugshit crazy, but at least he's not outright genocidal.SUPERGOD: praying to be saved by a man who can fly will get you killed.

The Woobie: Jerry Craven, the only one of the superbeings with even a trace of humanity, is the closest to a conventional superhero and asked for precisely none of the horrifying crap that's made a nightmare of his life.

try describing any of the literal events in it to people without sounding like you're batshit crazy.

What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: However you feel about the overall message of the book, just. Warren Ellis' Supergod Genres: Action, Adventure, Superhero Publisher: Avatar Press Writer: Warren Ellis Artist: Garry Gastonny Publication date: October 2009 - October 2010 Status: Completed Views: 241,698 Bookmark N/a Issue (s) Issue 5 Issue 4 Issue 3 Issue 2 Issue 1 Please do NOT spoil content of NEXT issues Report spoiler.

The Rastafarian doesn't even make an actual appearance besides one panel being created in a lab.

They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Rastafarian, Chinese and Iranian supergods can feel pretty underused.

It would probably be easier to list what isn't Nightmare Fuel.

Nightmare Fuel: Starts out bad enough, and then ups the ante at every turn.Matter-shaping Maitreya, who makes a giant Cthulhu body of himself.Jerry Craven, the Fights Like a Normal, Only Sane Man (relatively speaking) of the supergods.Anvilicious: Even setting aside the obvious and blunt anti-religion messaging, it's almost equally unsubtle about the difficulties of technological advancement to solve human problems when amoral and power-hungry people at the top are the ones controlling it.

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