Do The Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes (New Directions in Religion & Literature)
&#8216;Ben Saunders sets the bar high for himself when he says at the outset that a book about pop superheroes must be a book about spirituality and therefore about love. That might seem to place an unsupportable weight on the shoulders of Superman, Wonderwoman, Spiderman, and Iron man, but in this learned yet entirely accessible essay, Saunders makes both his thesis and his heroes stand up.&#8217; (Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law, Florida International University, USA )&#8216;Ben Saunders has done for comics analysis what Alan Moore did for comics literature. <span style="font-style: italic;">Do the Gods Wear Capes?</span> is a provocative, intelligent, and thought-provoking work, and Saunders&#8217; insights rise from the page with the same power and grace as those iconic characters he examines. Certainly the best critical work on the meaning and impact of those marquee super-heroes that define the genre and that we encounter in myriad ways every day as has ever been written.&#8217; (Greg Rucka, novelist and author of Batwoman: Elegy, White-Out, and Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia )