Seaguy

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title= Seaguy


caption= The cover to the trade paperback of "Seaguy", drawn by Cameron Stewart.
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format= Mini-series
publisher= Vertigo
date= 2004
issues= 3
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writers= Grant Morrison
artists= Cameron Stewart
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colorists= Peter Doherty
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creators=Grant Morrison
Cameron Stewart

"Seaguy" is a three-issue comic book mini-series written by Grant Morrison with art by Cameron Stewart and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. The first issue of "Seaguy" was released on May 19, 2004. All three issues have since been collected into a trade edition published on February 2, 2005.

The story revolves around Seaguy, an ordinary man in a scuba suit, and his best friend and sidekick Chubby Da Choona, a talking, cigar-smoking fish.

Overview

Seaguy is a super-hero who has never really had an adventure and spends his days in New Venice playing chess with Death, watching Mickey Eye (a cartoon show about an all-seeing, all-knowing, psychopathic eye, and an obvious spoof on Mickey Mouse) and going to the Mickey Eye amusement park. He constantly expresses his wish to go on adventures and impress a beautiful bearded warrior woman named She-Beard but he never seems to get around to it because he's told the world doesn't need heroes anymore. However, when Seaguy and Chubby discover that a new food staple called Xoo is sentient, they decide to protect it from evil forces and bring it home.

Seaguy exists in a seemingly perfect world in which all the super-heroes no longer save lives or do much of everything except ride the rides at the Mickey Eye amusement park. It is public knowledge that all the evil in the world was finally destroyed after a powerful entity called the Anti-Dad was destroyed by all the super-heroes, effectively leaving the heroes without jobs. The style of the book is equal parts dark tragedy and light-hearted whimsy as the main character travels from one adventure to the other, but with each adventure becoming more tragic than the one before it, until Seaguy discovers the secret history of the moon.

Morrison has expressed on various occasions that Seaguy represents a deliberate effort to move away from conventions of the current era of comics, "I had the idea to develop Seaguy into a weapon I could use to fight back against the trendy and unconvincing 'bad-ass' cynicism of current comics, most of which are produced by the most un-'bad-ass' men you can possibly imagine". [ [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12774 "Grant Morrison Talks Seaguy"] , "Newsarama", May 7, 2005] Morrison believes that in this fashion the work represents a new vanguard in the development of comics.

equels

Seaguy was planned as a trilogy, the second and third volumes were to be entitled "the Slaves of Mickey Eye" and "Seaguy Eternal" respectively, but due to the less than stellar sales of the comic, its sequels were unlikely to be published. [ [http://www.barbelith.com/topic/22315 "SeaGuy Enthusiasm"] , comment by Cameron Stewart on September 7, 2005] In 2006, a fan reported to a comics rumor column that Morrison was holding DC Comics' "52" weekly limited series for ransom. He reportedly offered to help write the series as long as they allowed him to go forward on the Seaguy sequel. [ [http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?article=2495 "Lying in the Gutters"] , Rich Johnston, "Comic Book Resources", June 19, 2006] Morrison has recently confirmed "Seaguy 2: The Slaves of Mickey Eye" will be released, and he has already finished the script of the first issue. [ [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=149066 Grant Morrison: All-Star Superman, and Much, Much More] , "Newsarama", March 5, 2008]

In April 2008 Morrison stated that both sequels will go ahead and gave an overview of the ideas he has about the different parts: [ [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16045 All Star Grant Morrison III: Superman] , Comic Book Resources, April 17, 2008]

"I originally thought about it as three books. The first book was his childhood. And it’s the idea that you’re quite ignorant and you just want to have adventures. And you have all your talking pals and imaginary friends. So that was the child Seaguy. This is the teenage version of Seaguy. It’s quite dark and gloomy and glossy and weird but it’s quite funny, as well. And the final one is a mature adult, so it’s a different version again. But it’s basically just this guy growing up and finding out the truth about things"

Publications

* "Seaguy" (by Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart, Vertigo, 3-issue mini-series, 2004, tpb, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0494-5) [ [http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=2503 Vertigo profile for trade] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=002022 Seaguy interview with Cameron Stewart] , ComicCon
* [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/110975114448321.htm Review of the trade] at Comics Bulletin