How to read superhero comics and why

the long version

"An analysis of superhero comic books beginning with Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen drawing on the literary and psychoanalytic theory of Harold Bloom and Slavoj Žižek, How to Read Superhero Comics and Why argues for the recognition of a new age of superhero comic books. Klock builds through a discussion of Marvels, Astro City, Kingdom Come, Alan Moore's America's Best Comics and Grant Morrison's Justice League of America to argue that Planetary, The Authority and Wildcats usher in the future of the superhero narrative: a future that will be what Spiderman and the Fantastic Four were in the early 1960s, and what Superman and Batman were in the late 1930s."--Cover p. [4].