SEAGUY

'''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.

Contents

Overview

Sequels

Publications

References

External links

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 are told that no longer needed by society and live mundane adventureless lives. It seems that 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".^[1] Morrison believes that in this fashion the work represents a new vanguard in the development of comics.

Sequels

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

Publications

★ ''Seaguy'' (by Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart, Vertigo, 3-issue mini-series, 2004, tpb, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0494-5)^[4]

References

1. "Grant Morrison Talks Seaguy", ''Newsarama'', May 7, 2005
2. "SeaGuy Enthusiasm", comment by Cameron Stewart on September 7, 2005
3. "Lying in the Gutters", Rich Johnston, ''Comic Book Resources'', June 19, 2006
4. Vertigo profile for trade

External links

★ Seaguy interview with Cameron Stewart

★ Review of the trade at Silver Bullet Comic Books