Escape The Surreal World With Seaguy

In a world where everyone can become their own superhero , is there anyone leave who can save the world ? The solvent will fall soon , with the imminent return ofGrant Morrison‘s tremendous comical Seaguy .

Seaguy , a astonishingly non - aquatic superhero who made his first visual aspect in a 2004 eponymous mini - series , returns in this summer ’s Seaguy : Slaves of Mickey Eye , which sees the David Lynchian , Soylent Green - inspired story heading in a more teen direction , as Morrison excuse to MySpace :

The first book in the Seaguy trilogy , ‘ Seaguy and The Wasps of Atlantis ’ , began with our hero ’s ‘ nativity ’ . We saw him living in a childlike domain without consequence : Death is ineffectual , everything is just right and everyone is his ally in Book One . Then he goes on his big adventure , discovers some abrasive the true about the world and about life history , loses his good companion and is finally drag in home for brainwash by a culture that no longer seems quite as kind of him now he ’s begun to see through its temptation . In the first book , although he ’s not a child , he ’s written with the form of wide - eyed , vacant , naiveness that epitomize young youngster .

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When we meet Seaguy in this second book , ‘ Seaguy : Slaves of Mickey Eye ’ , his feature film are astute and more defined . He ’s ungratified , bored , and suspicious of everything . He ’s begin to question all the things he antecedently took for grant . He is , in short , a teenager . So this 2d intensity is ‘ dark ’ Seaguy and it ’s all about what happens when society decides you ’re a bad hat and sets out to remould you in its own epitome . Where the first book was done in a picaresque mode , this one is perfect Hollywood 3 - act adventure . Can Seaguy get away from the mistaken ‘ El Macho ’ identity They ’ve trapped him in ? Can he make it back to New Venice in time to prevent the wedding of Seadog and She - Beard and thwart a programme to wrench everyone into mindless , dribbling half-wit slaves ?

Ignore the strange name and the metaphorical man break itself , accord to Morrison :

Blogging makes everyone a author or a critic . MySpace makes everyone celebrated until there are so many illustrious people that no - one ’s really famous for anything at all . Twitter turns every twitch , fart and half - baked thought process into a orbicular press statement . ‘ American Idol ’ makes everyone a potential celebrity . The Renaissance / wild-eyed idea of the special person , the wizard , the ‘ superhero ’ , is dying before our very centre . Everybody wants to be a rockstar and nobody wants to clean the streets . At the same time as all this do-or-die self - aggrandizement , we ’re watch sempiternal reruns of the same shows , the room kids repetitively watch the same DVD cartoons over and over again . Our most successful picture are about children ’s cartoon lineament as we sample to cocoon ourselves with nostalgia and repetition against the howl , incoherent darkness of ecologic catastrophe , paranoid surveillance culture , Terror and financial collapse .

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In ‘ Seaguy ’ , this process is train to an extreme ; the world he ’s grown up in has been dumbed - down and infantilised to a ridiculous degree . multitude inhabit in designated ‘ Comfort Zones ’ arrange around sinister theme parks . Alienated , lonely , disjointed and self - crucial , they intrust these fears to an anon. voice in ‘ Diary room ’ , inspired by ‘ grownup Brother ’ , while pretending an outward felicity to the other ego - absorbed people they encounter on their trip to the shops or the Park .

Of course , now I ’m worried that I ’m run to end up reading too much of my blogging ego into the floor when Seaguy : slave Of Mickey Eye begin next calendar month .

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Lesdilley