This is an older review I wrote June 9th, 2009.
Writer: Grant Morrison
Art: Cameron Stewart
Vertigo
"Oh, for weirdness' sakes, Junior! Why all the blubberin'?" is how issue #3 of Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye starts. And I can sympathise with Junior.
This is the second Seaguy series, and though I picked up the first one when it came out, I could not remember anything about it other than it being very strange. And a handful of years later, Grant Morrison has hit us with the next chapter of Seaguy. And after I started reading it, most of the characters came back to me. Seaguys love interest, She-Beard. His mentor Seadog. His (dead) best friend Chubby the Tuna. And even The Gondolier, who Seaguy, when he has the time, wagers his life by playing chess.
This story is a surreal dystopian tale about a society run by Mickey Eye. Mickey Eye has pleasure zone amusement parks, cartoons on television and toys for everyone to buy. But Seaguy, who really has shown no exceptional abilities, craves adventure of a superhero and despite Mickey Eye and his followers, sets out to end the tyrannical rule of Mickey.
The art work by Cameron Stewart is surprisingly normal for such a strange story. His lines and colors are clean and bold. There is no problems following the story through the art. She-Beard actually looks pretty hot (though she would kick anyones ass who says so) and there are some exceptional work done on the autosaur skeletons.
I can't recommend this book to everyone. A person must have a sense of the absurd to appreciate this. Often, as I was reading, I would just have to suspend any thought and just say "ok, that's how things are done in the world of Seaguy." Not that there is anything wrong with that. After all, if there is no logic in the world of comic books, what do we have?
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